Results for "Smithsonian Collections Blog"
Link Love: 3/15/2019
- Date: March 15, 2019
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
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If a huge mass of garbage falls in the ocean and no one sees it, does it exist?
- Date: May 22, 2009
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: The first thing that I thought of when we started discussing our new call for entry, "seeing other worlds," was Google Earth. When Google Earth first came out in 2004, I remember the novelty of being able to zoom into my hometown to point out details to college friends, and having them pan across their own homes and favorite travel spots. We could travel across the globe
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Jean Milton Berdan
- Date: July 6, 2022
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.
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Link Love: 10/12/2018
- Date: October 12, 2018
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
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The Archives’ Video Digitization Equipment Gets an Upgrade
- Date: April 2, 2020
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: The Archives recently upgraded its video digitization equipment to an open source, cost effective solution.
Antarctic Explorations: The Diary of John H. Dearborn
- Date: July 30, 2015
- Description: With the recent acquisition of the papers of scientist John H. Dearborn, here is an introduction to his life and research at the edge of the world.
New to the Flickr Commons: Mexico, 1890-1910
- Date: July 1, 2014
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: New to the Flickr Commons, images from Mexico, 1890-1910, from the Edward William Nelson and Edward Alphonso Goldman field books.
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Adventures of an Ecologist
- Date: January 7, 2014
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: A Flickr Set from the field work of Helmut Buechner.
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Smithson’s Bequest to London’s East End
- Date: October 23, 2014
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: When James Smithson wrote his will on October 23, 1826, he made several bequests to people before adding the contingent clause that created the Smithsonian Institution. One bequest was to a resident of London’s notorious East End.
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Science Service, Up Close: Summer Road Trips for Science, 1935
- Date: July 24, 2018
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: In 1935, Beloit College in Wisconsin began allowing female students to join the annual summer archeological expeditions.
Science Service, Up Close: George Sarton, Watson Davis, and “Panache”
- Date: June 23, 2016
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: For historians of science, the name “Sarton” resonates like a deep-throated bell. Isis, the international journal that chemist and mathematician George Sarton (1884-1956) founded in Belgium in 1913, is now the premier publication of the History of Science Society. The field he envisioned is flourishing as well as continually responding to changes in science and its social
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Science Service, Up Close: White House Science Advisors, from Roosevelt to Nixon
- Date: May 11, 2017
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: May 11 is the anniversary of establishment of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). That 1976 legislation further ratified the influence of scientists on national policy, positioning them to provide ready advice to the President.