Smithsonian
click! photography changes everything introduction
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- click! photography changes everything introduction
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- click! photography changes everything is a conversation about how photography shapes our culture and our lives. In this episode, Merry A. Foresta, Director of the Smithsonian Photography Initiative and Marvin Heiferman, Curator of click! photography changes everything talk about a new Smithsonian Photography Initiative project. View stories and photos at www.click.si.edu.
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- click! photography changes who we are
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- click! photography changes everything is a conversation about how photography shapes our culture and our lives. In this episode, Lonnie Bunch, Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, talks about how photographic images play a central role in shaping cultural identity. View more stories and photos at www.click.si.edu.
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- Will the Rainforest Survive? New Threats and Realities in the Tropical Extinction Crisis Part 2
- Date posted
- 18 years ago
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- An important debate has erupted in the scientific community concerning the magnitude of future species extinctions in the tropics. This debate was ignited by an in-depth analysis of expected human-population and forest-cover trends (S. J. Wright & H. Muller-Landau. 2006. Biotropica) and has generated great interest in the fate of tropical biodiversity (reviewed in W. F. Laurance. 2007. Trends in Ecology & Evolution). The debate centers around two different theories: Wrightâs position is based in part on United Nations figures that urbanism and lower population growth will allow abandoned areas to recover and tropical species to be spared versus Lauranceâs claims that secondary and degraded forests will sustain only a fraction of tropical biodiversity and that industrial agriculture, logging, mining, and economic globalization, rather than changing rural and urban populations, are becoming the dominant drivers of tropical deforestation.
More: http://www.si.edu/...
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- Will the Rainforest Survive? New Threats and Realities in the Tropical Extinction Crisis. Part 1
- Date posted
- 18 years ago
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- An important debate has erupted in the scientific community concerning the magnitude of future species extinctions in the tropics. This debate was ignited by an in-depth analysis of expected human-population and forest-cover trends (S. J. Wright & H. Muller-Landau. 2006. Biotropica) and has generated great interest in the fate of tropical biodiversity (reviewed in W. F. Laurance. 2007. Trends in Ecology & Evolution). The debate centers around two different theories: Wrightâs position is based in part on United Nations figures that urbanism and lower population growth will allow abandoned areas to recover and tropical species to be spared versus Lauranceâs claims that secondary and degraded forests will sustain only a fraction of tropical biodiversity and that industrial agriculture, logging, mining, and economic globalization, rather than changing rural and urban populations, are becoming the dominant drivers of tropical deforestation.
More: http://www.si.edu/...
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- National Museum of American History Grand Reopening Ribbon Cutting
- Date posted
- 18 years ago
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- The National Museum of American History officially reopen to the public on the morning of Friday, Nov. 21, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. A procession of historical characters brought history back to the museum, kicking off a three-day festival that celebrated the new home of the Star-Spangled Banner. Colin Powell read the Gettysburg Address to an enthusiastic crowd. More at http://AmericanHistory.si.edu
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- National Museum of American History Grand Reopening Ribbon Cutting
- Date posted
- 18 years ago
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- The Museum officially reopened to the public on the morning of Friday, Nov. 21, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. A procession of historical characters brought history back to the museum, kicking off a three-day festival that celebrating the new home of the Star-Spangled Banner.
More at http://AmericanHistory.si.edu
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- President Bush Discusses U.S. Ocean Action Plan at NMNH
- Date posted
- 18 years ago
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- President Bush visited the new Sant Ocean Hall at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History on Sept. 26, 2008. He gave a speech on the U.S. Ocean Action Plan.
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- Water Quality: Turbidity
- Date posted
- 18 years ago
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- Information regarding turbidity and the cloudiness of water in the chesapeake.
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- Blue Crab Molting/Mating
- Date posted
- 18 years ago
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- Information regarding molting and mating in blue crabs and their importance to the Chesapeake Bay.
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- An Evening with America's First Female Thunderbird Pilot
- Date posted
- 18 years ago
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- For More Webcasts: http://www.nasm.si.edu/events/lectures/webcast/archive.cfm?siref=Youtube&video=thunderbird
An Evening with America's First Female Thunderbird Pilot
Maj. Nicole Malachowski
What's it like to be first? In March 2006, Maj. Nicole Malachowski debuted as the first woman pilot selected to fly in any American military demonstration team, in this case, the Air Force Demo Squadron better known as the Thunderbirds, flying F-16Cs. Major Malachowski's two seasons as Thunderbird #3 Right Wing broke another glass ceiling for women, but more importantly gave her a chance to do what she loves: fly with (and as) the best.
Major Malachowski saw her first air show at five years of age, started flying with the Civil Air Patrol at 12, and soloed at 16. She set her sights on becoming an Air Force pilot and never looked back. After excelling at the Air Force Academy she flew F-15Es all over the world including a tour...
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- Meet The Artist: Douglas Gordon Part 2 of 2
- Date posted
- 18 years ago
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- For More Information: http://hirshhorn.si.edu?siref=Youtube&video=douglasgordon2
The exhibition begins with 24 Hour Psycho (1993), a slowed-down version of Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho. A different take on a familiar classic, it introduces many of the important themes in Gordon's work: recognition and repetition, time and memory, complicity and duplicity, authorship and authenticity, darkness and light.
For More Information: http://hirshhorn.si.edu?siref=Youtube&video=douglasgordon2
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- Meet The Artist: Douglas Gordon Part 1 of 2
- Date posted
- 18 years ago
- Description
- For More Information: http://hirshhorn.si.edu?siref=Youtube&video=douglasgordon1
The exhibition begins with 24 Hour Psycho (1993), a slowed-down version of Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho. A different take on a familiar classic, it introduces many of the important themes in Gordon's work: recognition and repetition, time and memory, complicity and duplicity, authorship and authenticity, darkness and light.
For More Information: http://hirshhorn.si.edu?siref=Youtube&video=douglasgordon1
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- Matthew Barney at the Hirshhorn
- Date posted
- 18 years ago
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- Pluto, Eris, and the Dwarf Planets of the Outer Solar System
- Date posted
- 18 years ago
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- For More Webcasts: http://www.nasm.si.edu/webcasts/archive.cfm?siref=YouTube&video=PlutoErisDwarfPlanets
Pluto, Eris, and the Dwarf Planets of the Outer Solar System
Presenter: Mike Brown
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
The Kuiper Belt is a mysterious region beyond Neptune and stretching more than four billion miles from the Sun. Using powerful telescopes, scientists are scouring the Belt and beyond, finding hundreds of small frigid objects such as Eris, which is larger than Pluto and takes 560 years to orbit the Sun; and smaller Sedna, with an elliptical orbit that takes more than 10,000 years to complete. Join Mike Brown as he describes the hunt for these ancient and elusive worlds.
Mike Brown is Professor of Planetary Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology and the discoverer, along with colleagues, of Eris (formerly 2003 UB313), Sedna, and other distant bodies.
The 2007 Exploring Space Lectures, Jo...
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- Pluto, Eris, and the Dwarf Planets of the Outer Solar System
- Date posted
- 18 years ago
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- Full Video- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHNO079G1i8
Pluto, Eris, and the Dwarf Planets of the Outer Solar System
Exploring Space Lecture webcast live on Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Speaker: Mike Brown
Mike Brown is Professor of Astronomy at Caltech and the discoverer, along with colleagues, of Eris (formerly known as 2003 UB313), Sedna, Quaoar, and other TNO's (Trans-Neptunian Objects). We now have the capability of detecting Kuiper Belt Objects, at least the larger ones, directly, using Earth-based telescopes. Speaker Brown and colleagues have discovered several of them, including Sedna, Quaoar, and Eris. Pluto has lots of company! But are these really "planets," or was Pluto merely the first discovery of an entirely new class of objects? In 2006, the International Astronomical Union, the gatekeepers of astronomical nomenclature, re-defined the term "planet" to reflect our much-increased knowledge about our Solar System and, in the process, P...
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- Jamestown Archeology Project - Current Dig 06/06/2008
- Date posted
- 18 years ago
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- A brief interview with Dr. William Kelso, Chief Archeologist at Jamestown about the current dig site and recent discoveries.
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- 2008 Native Writers Series #1 - N. Scott Momaday
- Date posted
- 18 years ago
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- N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa) is a poet, novelist, playwright, scholar, and artist. In 1969, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his first novel, House Made of Dawn (Harper & Row). He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University in 1960 and 1963, respectively. Momaday is regarded as the foremost author in Native American literature.
Momaday has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, numerous academic degrees, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was a founding trustee of the National Museum of the American Indian and founded the Buffalo Trust, a non-profit foundation for the preservation and revitalization of Native American cultural heritage. His latest book, Three Plays (University of Oklahoma, October 2007), is a collection of two plays and a screenplay, never before published. Momaday last appeared at the museum in December 2005, and his poem, "Sacajawea," is included in the Native Writers anthology CD, Pulling Down the Cloud...
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- An Evening with America's First Female Thunderbird Pilot
- Date posted
- 18 years ago
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- Complete Video - http://www.nasm.si.edu/webcasts/archive.cfm?siref=YouTube&video=2008_03_27_General_Electric_Lecture.wmv
What's it like to be first? In March 2006, Maj. Nicole Malachowski debuted as the first woman pilot selected to fly in any American military demonstration team, in this case, the Air Force Demo Squadron better known as the Thunderbirds, flying F-16Cs. Major Malachowski's two seasons as Thunderbird #3 Right Wing broke another glass ceiling for women, but more importantly gave her a chance to do what she loves: fly with (and as) the best.
Major Malachowski saw her first air show at five years of age, started flying with the Civil Air Patrol at 12, and soloed at 16. She set her sights on becoming an Air Force pilot and never looked back. After excelling at the Air Force Academy she flew F-15Es all over the world including a tour in Iraq. Major Malachowski's no-nonsense character and superb flying ability have brought her high accolades throughout ...
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- Maya Lin at Smithsonian American Art - Updated Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNQUQLzKRk0
- Date posted
- 19 years ago
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- Complete Lecture: http://americanart.si.edu/collections/clarice_smith/maya_lin.cfm?siref=youtube&video=2006Lin
Maya Lin
Art and Architecture
October 18, 2006
Maya Lin, one of the few individuals who has forged a path in both art and architecture, is at once a sculptor, architect, and designer. In all of her projects, Lin brings a contemporary perspective to the landscape by merging the rational order of high technology with organic forms. While Lin has created many socially motivated works of art, she is intent on avoiding didacticism and politics. Her monuments, including the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (1982) in Washington, D.C., and the Civil Rights Memorial (1988—1993) in Montgomery, Alabama, have been highly acclaimed for creating an intensely private experience in a public context. Lin has won numerous awards, including the Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Complete Lecture: http://a...
