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    Holding on to Virtual Worlds

    • Date: June 23, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="385" caption="Games, by Axel Tregoning, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] While some people seem to enjoy fantasizing about doomsday scenarios and the end of the “real” world, a recent piece on Ars Tehchnica’s website makes it clear that virtual worlds don’t last forever, either.

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    Sifting Through Archives and Snooping Through Desks

    • Date: April 27, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="241" caption="Walt Whitman, 1883 ,by Unidentified photographer, Albumen silver print, 14.3 cmx10.1 cm, National Portrait Gallery, Image No.

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    Unsolved Mysteries

    • Date: January 5, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_4088" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Lower Rose Window, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City, October 2009, by Bernardo Núñez, Digital photograph, © Bernardo Núñez / Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City (left); B-DNA, seen end-on, courtesy of Dr.

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    OUCH: Scary Pictures of Broad Daylight

    • Date: April 30, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="384" caption="Waikiki, No.

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    Looking for Mr. or Ms. Right

    • Date: April 20, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Perfect, by Bruce Berrien, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] At the turn of the 21st century, as federal organizations and private corporations were competing against each other in the race to decode the human genome, a number of exhibitions that explored areas where genetic science and visual imagery

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    Them Bones

    • Date: April 27, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Look at enough photographs and it’s inevitable that, at some point, you’ll find yourself pondering mortality and photography’s relationship to death. Because the medium so effectively captures fragments of lives, events, and data that have come and gone, you’re always looking at and trying to make sense of something that’s over, finished, part of the past. Writers—particularly

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    Augmented Reality? Something Wrong With That?

    • Date: June 18, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_1356" align="aligncenter" width="251" caption="Tommy Dodgen, age 4, standing by the largest lamp in the world : Tampa, Florida, by unknown photographer, 1947, State Library and Archives of Florida, Commerce Collection."][/caption] The cover shot of Popular Science’s July issue, which focuses on the future of energy, uses some interesting new

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    The Mercury's Rising. Again.

    • Date: May 30, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="296" caption="This image from Mercury mission number four taken on Sept. 13, 1961 is just one of the many images that was written on by engineers. Credit: NASA/JSC/Arizona State University."][/caption] On May 16th, hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the vicinity of Cape Canaveral to watch the Endeavor, the NASA space shuttle,

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    But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?

    • Date: May 23, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Beauty is forever, by Just Warr, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0 Generic."][/caption] At THE BIGGER PICTURE, we often write about the challenges of maintaining the data in digital archives. But a recent article bundled in the informative daily arts newsletter compiled by Jeff Weiss—you can subscribe by sending a request

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    Location! Location! Location!

    • Date: July 6, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    Made You Look!!!

    • Date: July 8, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_7261" align="alignleft" width="430" caption="Advertisement on Fifth Avenue in New York City, 2010, Photo courtesy of Marvin Heiferman."][/caption] You’ve probably noticed, in recent years, that in order to attract shoppers’ attention retail establishments have been filling both exterior and interior display spaces with big, colorful, and evocative

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    Digital Humanists Dive Into Archives

    • Date: August 3, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Bloggers on The Bigger Picture often describe how, in the course of their work, they come across intriguing archival objects and artifacts that trigger new insights into history. “Hands on” encounters with compelling evidence from the past are thrilling and can be provocative. But so can different sorts of encounters, including those that are driven by data, rather than

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