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  1. 2 visitors observe large head-shaped sculpture with horizontal bands and projection of older visitor

    Link Love: 12/15/2017

    • Date: December 15, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Artist Mathew Mohr has created a 14-foot interactive sculpture that creates projections of visitor's faces! [via Colossal]The Library of Congress has added 64 films for free streaming to their National Film Registry. [via Info Docket]Conservators are using light in the form of Reflectance Transformation Imaging to find Isaac Newton's doodles on the walls of childhood home.

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    Meanwhile, back on earth... A Slideshow

    • Date: June 5, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="133" caption="Earth, 1971, Apollo 15, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Center for Earth and Planetary Studies"][/caption] The planets and outer space used to seem far, far away from our lives down on earth. But as this slideshow reveals, by the mid-twentieth century—with Ford Galaxies in our driveways, satellite-shaped barbeque

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  5. Effie Kapsalis pictured with Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough.

    Effie Kapsalis Wins the Smithsonian Secretary’s Innovative Spirit Award

    • Date: November 1, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  7. President Nixon with Elvis Presley, December 21, 1970, Roll-Frame number: WHPO 5364-18.

    Link Love: 12/4/2015

    • Date: December 4, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Nixon Presidential Library and Museum releases 66,000 more documents from his White House days. [via InfoDocket]The Smithsonian's first blog, Eye Level, from the Smithsonian American Art Museum just celebrated its 10th year! [via Eye Level]Not many people know why the Smithsonian was founded, and the extraordinary set of circumstances that had to take place for it to happen.

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  9. The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's Rachel Collin, Evolutionary Biologist and Director of their Bocas Del Toro Research Station, studies the evolution of marine gastropods (snails) and oversees multiple disciplines of marine biology at the Collin Lab in Bocas del Toro. #Groundbreaker

    Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Rachel Collin

    • Date: April 8, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The Smithsonian Tropical Research Center's Dr. Rachel Collin, Evolutionary Biologist and Director of their Bocas Del Toro Research Station, studies the evolution of marine gastropods (snails) and oversees multiple disciplines of marine biology at the Collin Lab in Bocas del Toro. #Groundbreaker

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  11. Black and white photo of a young Margaret Collins sitting at a lab bench with a microscope in front of her.

    Margaret Collins: Scholar, Civil Rights Activist, and Mentor

    • Date: March 27, 2018
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: During this Women’s History Month, the Smithsonian Transcription Center has been highlighting projects from women around the Smithsonian. Among these women is Margaret Collins, a pioneering scientist and civil rights activist. While her fieldwork has been written about previously, that is clearly just one part of a full and distinguished career.Collins’ interest in science

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  13. Link Love: 5/24/2013

    • Date: May 24, 2013
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Marilyn Graskowiak

    • Date: December 23, 2020
    • 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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    A Peek into an Electronic Records Archivist’s Toolbox

    • Date: November 29, 2011
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Open source tools, CERP, JHOVE, DROID, Heritrix, for electronic records archivists to use in preserving digital files like WAV, PST, websites, and email.

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    Seeing the Invisible (Part 2)

    • Date: June 1, 2009
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  21. Moving of Greenough Statue of George Washington

    Not Your Average Moving Day

    • Date: April 2, 2013
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: A slideshow of objects being moved at the Smithsonian Institution.

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  23. Link Love: 10/19/2018

    • Date: October 19, 2018
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: The Theodore Roosevelt Papers are now digitized and available online through the Library of Congress Digital Collections. Don't try browsing all at once—there are over 450,000 images! [via Library of Congress][edan-image:id=siris_sic_9575,size=300,center]With the help of ground-penetrating radar, the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Research has discovered a thousand-year-old

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