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    1. Free NASA Posters, image courtesy NASA/JPL.

      Link Love: 02/19/2016

      • Date: February 19, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Don't miss out on getting your copy of these beautiful NASA space travel posters. [via The Drive]GPS art by bicycle. [via bored panda]448 free art books from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [via Open Culture]Learn how to archive institutional email from two of our own. [via Library of Congress]A new 3D scan of Apollo 11 reveals astronaut graffiti depicting flight plans, a

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    3. Elmer S. Riggs and Mr. Klein with fossil rhinoceros skull in Paleontology Lab, 1899, Field Museum.

      Link Love: 11/27/15

      • Date: November 27, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Who doesn't love giant treasure-troves of historic photographs? Check out some amazing shots from the history of the Field Museum in Chicago. [via Wired]History detective: Researchers in Amsterdam used Google Maps to pinpoint the exact location of the house depicted in Johannes Vermeer's painting, “The Little Street.” [via Hyperallergic]Want to contribute to public history

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    5. Lined paper with black ink writing and a drawing of a map at the bottom.

      The Arctic Adventures of Neal Griffith Smith

      • Date: December 21, 2017
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: Today is the first day of winter. Not ready for the cold weather? It could always be worse. Ornithologist (and future tropical biologist) Neal Griffith Smith once wrote in his journal:"Still pensil [sic]. Well, I've got time and temperature to write. Just sharpened the pensil with a snow knife. We are parked smack in the middle of Southampton [Island] in a bloody windstorm. It

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    7. Lambert cylinder featuring

      Link Love: 11/12/2015

      • Date: November 13, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Voices from the past! A treasure trove of over 10,000 cylinder recordings of historic sounds to stream or download from the University of California, Santa Barbara. [via Hyperallergic] A powerful new VR experience; location-based storytelling from the New York Times, NYT VR. [via New York Times] Digital provenance comes to life at the Carnegie Museum: New open-source software,

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    9. Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979), astrophysicist at Harvard College Observatory, was known for her research on stellar spectra.

      Women in Science Wednesday: Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin

      • Date: March 5, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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    11. Pioneering aeronautical engineer Laurel van der Wal (d. 2009) (later Laurel van der Wal Roennau) won the Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award in 1961 when she was head of bioastronautics at Space Technology Laboratories. The Los Angeles Times named her 1961 Woman Scientist of the Year.

      Women in Science Wednesday: Laurel van der Wal

      • Date: August 27, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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    13. In 1954, Lt. Col. Pauline Kirby of the Army Nurse Corps (ANC)

      Women in Science Wednesday: Lt. Col. Pauline Kirby

      • Date: January 1, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: A weekly feature highlighting a groundbreaking woman in science.

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    15. May Gorslin Preston Slosson (1858-1943) was a noted suffragist and the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in philosophy in United States (Cornell University, 1880). Her graduate thesis was titled

      Women in Science Wednesday: May Gorslin Preston Slosson

      • Date: February 26, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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    17. Muriel E. Mussells Seyfert (b. 1909) was an astronomer at Harvard College Observatory where she discovered three new ring nebulae in the Milky Way in 1936.

      Women in Science Wednesday: Muriel E. Mussells Seyfert

      • Date: August 6, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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    19. Ruth Colvin Starrett McGuire (1893-1950) was a plant pathologist known for her work on sugar cane diseases.

      Women in Science Wednesday: Ruth Colvin Starrett McGuire

      • Date: August 13, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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    21. Dora Jean Dougherty Strother (b. 1921)

      Women in Science Wednesday: Dora Jean Dougherty Strother

      • Date: August 21, 2013
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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    23. Elise Depew Strang L'Esperance (1878-1959), M.D. and professor of pathology

      Women in Science Wednesday: Elise Depew Strang L'Esperance

      • Date: December 25, 2013
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: A weekly feature highlighting a groundbreaking woman in science.

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