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  1. Science Service director Watson Davis with General Motors' Thomas Midgley Jr, 1936.

    Science Service, Up Close: Patent Parades, Silk Purses, and Snake Bite Remedies

    • Date: March 30, 2017
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Everyone loves a parade – especially one followed by a banquet. When scientists and politicians met in Washington, D.C., on November 23, 1936, to celebrate the centennial of the U.S. patent system, they listened first to a conventional program of speeches. Then, in the afternoon, Science Service director Watson Davis arranged something different: a “Research Parade” featuring

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  3. Mending one of the specimen illustrations atop a light box.

    An Undersea Invertebrates Update: Treatment Progress on Bartsch’s Nudibranchs Field Book

    • Date: May 18, 2017
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Treatment continues on Paul Bartsch’s field book documenting nudibranchs—see our progress!

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  5. Rube Goldberg and wife Irma interacting with the machine exhibits and attendees riding a bicycle. Photographs being taken of Goldberg sitting near his cartoons speaking to the press. Also, dinner table seating with the Goldbergs, Smithsonian Institution Secretary S. Dillon Ripley and NMHT Director Daniel Boorstin.

    Do It the Hard Way, Like Rube Goldberg

    • Date: November 24, 2020
    • Description: Rube Goldberg, the subject of a 1970 exhibition at the National Museum of American History, produced thousands of drawings and comic strips, as well as, films, photographs, and over-the-top machines. A true celebrity in his time, Goldberg set standards in political cartooning and contributed to the development of thousands of extravagant and entertaining contraptions that have

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  7. At left, a brown-haired man leafs through a folder of archival correspondence laying on a white work table, while a brown-haired woman takes notes on her laptop, which is perched atop a gray library cart laden with archival storage boxes.

    Finding Our Way Ahead

    • Date: June 16, 2022
    • Description: Since our last post, we have moved back to working on site in our new, hybrid normal. See how our proposals for new workflows are turning out!

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  9. The World Is Yours: Christmas in the Colonies

    • Date: December 24, 2020
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Take a listen to clips from the episode of The World Is Yours titled “Christmas in the Colonies.”

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    Lisa Stevens: The Inspiring Career of the “Panda Lady”

    • Date: September 1, 2020
    • Description: Known lovingly by the public as the “Panda Lady,” Lisa Stevens cultivated a rich thirty-year career at the National Zoological Park as the senior curator of mammals.

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    Science Service, Up Close: John Clavon Norman, Jr. – Pathbreaking Cardiac Surgeon and Researcher

    • Date: August 23, 2018
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_395101,size=300,left]When Harvard Medical School distributed these photographs of John Clavon Norman, Jr., M.D. (1930-2014) to news services in the 1960s, Dr. Norman was at an exciting stage of his career. The young physician had already made quite a journey, but there would be even more paths to blaze. He had been born in West Virginia to parents who

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  15. Revisiting the Arts and Industries Building

    • Date: April 17, 2014
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Closed to the public since 2004, the Arts and Industries Building remains closed for the foreseeable future. Here is a look back at what used to be there.

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  17. The World Is Yours: Stars in the Sky

    • Date: July 15, 2021
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Take a listen to clips from a The World Is Yours episode, “Stars in the Sky.”

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  19. Science Service, Up Close: Women in Geology and Paleontology

    • Date: March 14, 2019
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: To celebrate Women’s History Month, here are two examples of 20th-century women who applied their education and expertise in geology and paleontology outside traditional university career paths.

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  21. The World Is Yours: Rockets and Planets

    • Date: February 18, 2021
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Take a listen to clips from the episode of The World Is Yours titled “Rockets and Planets.”

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    Science Service, Up Close: Tips for Writers – Running Starts and Clean Plates

    • Date: February 19, 2019
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: As the Director of Science Service, chemist Edwin Emery Slosson not only edited the submissions of his staff and external contributors but he also dispensed writing tips that remain timely today.

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