Results for "Smithsonian Time Capsule: 1968 (Television program)"
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3/19/2016: Help Us Write Minority Women into History
- Date: March 15, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_8825,size=300,left]It is once again time to come together for a day of Wikipedia! Join Smithsonian and U.S. National Archives staff, as well as local Wikipedian volunteers, for a Women's History Month/Museum Day Live! edit-a-thon on Saturday March 19th, 10am-3pm, at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Sign up for a wikipedia
Women in Science Wednesday: Linda Welzenbach
- Date: December 17, 2014
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Linda Welzenbach, Meteorite Collection Manager at the National Museum of Natural History, distributes meteorite samples to scientists around the world and thinks of meteorites as "time capsules." #Groundbreaker
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The “Enigmatic” First Artist-In-Residence at the Smithsonian
- Date: June 7, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Late 2015, the beta version of the Smithsonian’s Learning Lab, a new digital platform providing access to digital resources across the Smithsonian alongside tools for teachers and students, launched. I was delighted to see a related social media update hinting at some of the discoveries to be had with the Learning Lab, one of which showed Saul Steinberg drawings on Smithsonian
Travel to the Tropics, Archives-style!
- Date: January 30, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Travel with us to the Galapagos and the Marshall Islands as we launch some warm-weather scientific field books, diaries, and correspondence. While it’s not very wintery in Washington D.C., we’re hoping this will offer an escape to those entering the long remaining months of snow, sleet, and ice. And if you’re avoiding the cold, what a better way to spend your time than helping
Link Love: 8/5/2016
- Date: August 5, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Help transcribe wine labels for the University of California, Davis, to contribute to the understanding of the post-Prohibition wine industry. [via Hyperallergic]Getty hired its first semantic architect, Rob Sanderson, who will work on their open culture initiatives. [via Iris]A hidden Degas portrait revealed by a particle accelerator! [via NY Times]The California Academy of
17 Objects for 170 Years (Happy Birthday to us!)
- Date: August 10, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: On the Smithsonian's 170th birthday, here are 17 stories of how items have made their way to our collections!
Here's Looking at You
- Date: June 25, 2013
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: A peek into our metrics program at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
Thank you, Volunteers!
- Date: April 23, 2015
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Volunteers have been an integral part of the Smithsonian since the beginning. As our historian Pamela Henson likes to say, we have always relied on the kindness of strangers. A blog post in honor of Volunteer Appreciation Month 2015. Includes a list of Smithsonian crowdsourcing projects that volunteers can participate in.
The Impossible Case of Harrison G. Dyar
- Date: May 12, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Starting tomorrow through next week, we will be digging into the life of entomologist Harrison Gray Dyar (1866-1929). Dyar was honorary custodian of the Smithsonian's United States National Museum's collection of Lepidoptera (butterflies, moths, etc.) for more than thirty years. As a scientist, Dyar was noted for his work concerning mosquito-borne diseases. He also developed a
A New Perspective from the Field Book Project
- Date: October 18, 2013
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: We just launched a new set of images on Flickr Commons documenting the Pacific Ocean Biological Survey.
Link Love: 6/9/2017
- Date: June 9, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Ouch — the Society of Women Engineers has a collection of rejection letters sent to women attempting to gain entry to engineering programs. [via Atlantic]A new discovery of 300,000 year old remains of Homo sapiens shows that our species evolved in multiple locations on the African continent. [via NY Times]iNaturalist.org is launching an app that will help you identify plants
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Volunteer Appreciation: Peter Finkel
- Date: January 17, 2011
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: [caption id="attachment_10960" align="aligncenter" width="376" caption="Peter Finkel, volunteer at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. "][/caption] Here at the Archives, we have 25 fulltime staff members, and half as many volunteers and interns at any given moment.