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      Brave New Museum

      • Date: March 11, 2010
      • Description: Computer science researchers at the University of Washington and Cornell University have announced a new system of powerful graphics algorithms that will create three-dimensional renderings of buildings, neighborhoods, and potentially even entire cities. Fittingly the inventors went for the gold and named the system PhotoCity. Like its precursor, Microsoft’s Photosynth, the

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      The Puget Sound Biological Station

      • Date: August 25, 2022
      • Description: We’re exploring the storied history of Friday Harbor Labs, a MarineGEO site, in Washington State.

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    5. Students who volunteered as subjects in the George Washington University “Sleeplessness Test,” August 14-16, 1925. Left to right: Louise Omwake, Katherine Tait Omwake, Thelma Hunt, and Alice Haines.

      Science Service, Up Close: The Sleeplessness Study, Part 1 - Insomniacs

      • Date: August 18, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: In 1925, seven George Washington University students volunteered to stay awake for sixty hours, and drove, danced, sang, and swam in an effort to remain alert.

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    7. Watson Hiner Monroe (at left, behind the wheel) and Katherine Tait Omwake and Thelma Hunt (visible in the back seat), participating in driving test as part of the George Washington University “Sleeplessness Test” weekend, August 14-16, 1925.

      Science Service, Up Close: The Sleeplessness Study, Part 2 - Adventurers

      • Date: August 20, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: In 1925, seven George Washington University students volunteered to stay awake for sixty hours, and drove, danced, sang, and swam in an effort to remain alert.

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    9. Link Love: 06/12/2020

      • Date: June 12, 2020
      • 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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    11. Link Love: 5/31/2019

      • Date: May 31, 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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    13. Link Love: 6/21/2019

      • Date: June 21, 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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    15. Mary Foote Henderson dressed to the nines as a Washington, D.C. hostess, by the Brady Studio. Record Unit 7075 - The Henderson Family Papers, 1868-1923, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      A Hidden Woman

      • Date: March 20, 2014
      • Creator: Mary Markey
      • Description: An extraordinary look at a woman in the Archives collections, Mary Foote Henderson.

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    17. David Burnett’s Speed Graphic Photos of the London 2012 Olympics.

      Link Love: 2/15/2013

      • Date: February 15, 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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      See Here: 11/16/2010

      • Date: November 16, 2010
      • Creator: The Bigger Picture
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="408" caption="Physicist Hans Albrecht Bethe (1906-2005) is shown being interviewed by John O’Neill (science journalist, New York Tribune), and William Laurence (science journalist, New York Times) at the George Washington University Conference on Theoretical Physics, January 1939, by Fremont Davis, Photographic print, Smithsonian

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      Seeing another world, this one behind the Iron Curtain…

      • Date: May 26, 2009
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="293" caption="Completed SA-2 missile site showing characteristic Star of David pattern, National Security Archive, The George Washington University"][/caption] Strangely beautiful surveillance photographs shot from an American U-2 spy plane triggered a terrifying nuclear standoff, The Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. In a new click!

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    23. The Smithsonian's Art of Love board on Pinterest.

      Link Love: 2/10/2012

      • Date: February 10, 2012
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • 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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