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    1. The cover of Science Remaking the World. Note that E.E. (Edwin Emery) Slosson’s name was misspelled as “Edward Slosson.”

      Science Service, Up Close: Books, Readers, and Recommendations

      • Date: December 3, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Need a new book to read? Look no further than these recommendations from Smithsonian Science Service staff writers during the 1920s and 1930s.

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    3. Helen Miles Davis (left), Thomas Robert Henry (center) and Jane Stafford (right), 1942. Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s. Smithsonian Institution Archives, image no. SIA2008-3802.

      Science Service, Up Close: Covering the Atom, August 1945

      • Date: August 6, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Details of Helen Miles Davis and Science Service coverage of the atomic bomb.

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    5. Paleoanthropologist, Briana Pobiner, studies the evolution of human carnivory and is leading a National Science Foundation project to provide teachers with better materials that use human examples to teach evolution in AP high school biology classes. #Groundbreaker

      Women in Science Wednesday: Briana Pobiner

      • Date: November 19, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Paleoanthropologist, Briana Pobner, studies the evolution of human carnivores and is leading a National Science Foundation project to provide teachers with better materials that use human examples to teach evolution in AP high school biology classes. #Groundbreaker

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    7. Margaret Holden Jones Kaanar, M.D. (1904-2001)

      Women in Science Wednesday: Margaret Holden Jones Kaanar, M.D.

      • Date: October 23, 2013
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: A weekly feature highlighting a groundbreaking woman in science.

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    9. Tweets between @Smithsonian and @PennamitePLR

      Audiences Solving Mysteries of Women in Science

      • Date: December 3, 2013
      • Description: Recent discoveries about our Women in Science demonstrate the ways our audiences are helping us add more stories to our collections.

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      Science Service, Up Close: Stuff Matters

      • Date: September 3, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Science Service photographs, while having good identifying information, can still be helped by the cybercommunity to fill in some of the mission information.

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    13. Physicists Hendrik Antoon Lorentz and Albert Einstein, co-chairmen of the League of Nations Committee on Intellectual Cooperation, photographed by Watson Davis at a meeting of the committee in Geneva, Switzerland, July 1926. By Watson Davis. Accession 90-105: Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives, image no. SIA2008-5431.

      Science Service, Up Close: Lorentz and Einstein, Geneva, 1926

      • Date: October 1, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: A previously unpublished photograph, from the Science Service "morgue" files in Accession 90-105, shows two Nobel laureate physicists, Anton Lorentz and Albert Einstein, in 1926.

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    15. Dr. Christine Jones Forman, Senior Astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

      Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon: Women in Science

      • Date: March 14, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: You can participate in our second Wikipedia edit-a-thon with the goal of increasing the representation of women scientists on Wikipedia!

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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.

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    19. -ray of the skull of Science Service astronomy editor James Stokley

      Science Service, Up Close: Covering Eclipses, Near and Far

      • Date: August 15, 2017
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Spectacular natural events, like eclipses, have long been the bread-and-butter of science journalism. Science Service, too, succumbed to the lure of combining colorful, firsthand descriptions with technical explanations.

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      More Thoughts on the Art of Science

      • Date: January 7, 2010
      • Description: In the most recent issue of Ezra (Winter 2010, pg. 3), Cornell University’s quarterly magazine, there is a small feature about photographs by graduate student Heather Flores of fruit fly ovaries. These images won the NYSTEM Stem Cell Awareness Day Image Contest. Besides the fact that there is a contest devoted to images that demonstrate the visual beauty of stem cell science,

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    23. Program for Entertainment onboard S.S. Republic, October 10, 1925. Record Unit 7091: Science Service, Records, c. 1910-1963, Smithsonian Institution Archives. Image no. SIA2015-007141.

      Science Service, Up Close: Watson Comes Home

      • Date: October 6, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: After successfully completing his 1925 European business trip, 29-year-old Watson Davis headed home on the S.S. Republic, boarding at Cherbourg, France, on October 2. The science journalist had covered the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science and discussed with Sir Richard Gregory (Editor of the journal Nature) the plausibility of

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