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Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative: Nora Naranjo Morse

Title: Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative: Nora Naranjo Morse
Runtime: 1:21
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: The Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative, Because of Her Story, seeks to deepen our knowledge and appreciation of women’s contributions to American society. Drawing on the Smithsonian’s unique and vast resources, the initiative strives share complete and compelling story of women in America. For more information visit https://womenshistory.si.edu/.

In this video Mandy Van Heuvelen, a cultural interpreter coordinator at the National Museum of the American Indian, shares the story of contemporary Native artist Nora Naranjo Morse. Morse, whose artwork draws on traditional Native culture, created the sculptures that sit outside of the museum in Washington, D.C.

Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative: Roxy Laybourne

Title: Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative: Roxy Laybourne
Runtime: 1:13
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: The Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative, Because of Her Story, seeks to deepen our knowledge and appreciation of women’s contributions to American society. Drawing on the Smithsonian’s unique and vast resources, the initiative strives share complete and compelling story of women in America. For more information visit https://womenshistory.si.edu/.

In this video Carla Dove, program director of the National Museum of Natural History’s Feather Identification Lab, shares the story of Roxy Laybourne. Unknown to most, Laybourne was a pioneer in forensic ornithology whose work greatly improved the safety of flight.

Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative: Gilda Miros and Isabel Norniella

Title: Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative: Gilda Miros and Isabel Norniella
Runtime: 1:31
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: The Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative, Because of Her Story, seeks to deepen our knowledge and appreciation of women’s contributions to American society. Drawing on the Smithsonian’s unique and vast resources, the initiative strives share complete and compelling story of women in America. For more information visit https://womenshistory.si.edu/.

In this video Kathleen Franz, a curator of work and labor at the National Museum of American History, discusses Gilda Mirós and Isabel Norniella, two Latina trailblazers in advertising and broadcasting.

Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative: Sojourner Truth

Title: Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative: Sojourner Truth
Runtime: 1:16
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: The Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative, Because of Her Story, seeks to deepen our knowledge and appreciation of women’s contributions to American society. Drawing on the Smithsonian’s unique and vast resources, the initiative strives share complete and compelling story of women in America. For more information visit https://womenshistory.si.edu/.

In this video Mary Elliot, curator of American slavery at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, shares what Sojourner Truth means to her. Often overlooked, Sojourner Truth was enslaved for 35 years and went on to become a women’s rights activist and abolitionist.

Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative: Sally Ride

Title: Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative: Sally Ride
Runtime: 1:09
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: The Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative, Because of Her Story, seeks to deepen our knowledge and appreciation of women’s contributions to American society. Drawing on the Smithsonian’s unique and vast resources, the initiative strives share complete and compelling story of women in America. For more information visit https://womenshistory.si.edu.

In this video Margaret Weitekamp, a curator of space history at the National Air and Space Museum, talks about Sally Ride’s role as the first American woman in space, and how her leadership changed the perception of women in science.

Smithsonian Long Conversation Highlights 12/17

Title: Smithsonian Long Conversation Highlights 12/17
Runtime: 3:49
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description

Obama Portrait Unveiling at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery

Title: Obama Portrait Unveiling at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery
Runtime: 52:59
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery unveils its commissioned portraits of former President Barack Obama and Mrs. Michelle Obama by artists Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, respectively. Remarks by President Obama and Mrs. Obama, Smithsonian Secretary David Skorton, National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet and artists Wiley and Sherald.

Title: The Long Conversation
Runtime: 7:02:59
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Leaders in the arts and sciences talk about the big ideas that make them optimistic for the future.

Smithsonian 2022: The Future of The Smithsonian

Title: Smithsonian 2022: The Future of The Smithsonian
Runtime: 46:32
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: What will the Smithsonian look like in five years? Our Leadership discusses our bold new vision.

Title: Food History Weekend Part 1
Runtime: 2:37:29
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: - Captured Live on Ustream at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/national-museum-of-american-history

Title: Food History Weekend Part 2
Runtime: 1:02:11
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: - Captured Live on Ustream at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/national-museum-of-american-history

Title: Food History Weekend Part 3
Runtime: 40:18
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: - Captured Live on Ustream at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/national-museum-of-american-history

Title: What Is Sidedoor?
Runtime: 1:14
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: More than 157 million treasures fill the Smithsonian’s vaults, but where public view ends, Sidedoor begins. With the help of biologists, artists, historians, archaeologists, zookeepers and astrophysicists, host Tony Cohn sneaks listeners through Smithsonian’s side door to search for stories that can’t be found anywhere else. Check out https://si.edu/sidedoor and follow @SidedoorPod for more info.

Subscribe to Sidedoor on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your shows. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/sidedoor/id1168154281?mt=2

Animation and Illustration | Will McHenry: https://vimeo.com/willmchenry
Illustration | René Moffatt: https://design.renemoffatt.com/
Music | Breakmaster Cylinder: https://soundcloud.com/breakmaster-cylinder

Hollywood Shuffle? Black History on Film - History Film Forum 2017

Title: Hollywood Shuffle? Black History on Film - History Film Forum 2017
Runtime: 1:28:18
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: March 12, 2017 Panel Discussion at the History Film Forum

Two years after #OscarsSoWhite began trending, the History Film Forum and The Undefeated examine the state of Black history on the screen. The African American Film Critics Association called 2016 the best year ever for black people in cinema, with films like Loving, Hidden Figures, and The Free State of Jones, along with powerful documentaries like OJ: Made in America, I am not your Negro, and 13th. We saw projects featuring African Americans in front of and behind the camera and black stories at the forefront. Despite the long standing dearth of diverse stories of the past making it to movie audiences, does this year indicate a lasting shift where we might consistently see new stories of the past on the screen? - Captured Live on Ustream at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/national-museum-of-american-history

Sagittarius dwarf galaxy passes galactic center of the Milky Way

Title: Sagittarius dwarf galaxy passes galactic center of the Milky Way
Runtime: 0:12
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: This movie simulates several passages of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy past the galactic center (GC) of the Milky Way over the course of 8 billion years. The blue and red particles represent dark matter and stars, respectively. (Animation by Marion Dierickx / Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

Video accompanies CfA press release: "Farthest Stars in Milky Way Might Be Ripped from Another Galaxy." Release 2017-02/Wednesday, January 11, 2017 - 9:45am/ https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2017-02

Title: "Mnemiopsis leidyi"
Runtime: 1:12
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: This short video of the comb jelly "Mnemiopsis leidyi" reveals that ctenophores possess a functional through-gut from which digestion waste products and material distributed via the endodermal canals are expelled through terminal anal pores. From Current Biology "The Presence of a Functionally Tripartite Through-Gut in Ctenophora Has Implications for Metazoan Character Trait Evolution" (http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(16)30931-9#)

Title: The Art of Creation With Michael Joo
Runtime: 2:01
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Meet Michael Joo, a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow and creator of "Collective," currently on display at the Freer Sackler Gallery of Asian Art. Learn where he draws inspiration and what it means to have his work displayed at the Smithsonian.

For more information on Michael, our Freer Sackler Gallery or other Smithsonian work, check out: http://www.si.edu

An Active Environment With Smithsonian Educator: Amy Homma

Title: An Active Environment With Smithsonian Educator: Amy Homma
Runtime: 2:21
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Meet Amy Homma, the Director of Digital Learning at Art Lab+. Learn how Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has created a dynamic program to advance digital learning with teens in the local community.

Time Travel With Smithsonian Paleontologist: Nick Pyenson

Title: Time Travel With Smithsonian Paleontologist: Nick Pyenson
Runtime: 2:41
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Meet Nick Pyenson, one of our paleontologists at the National Museum of Natural History. His job as a time traveler is to make discoveries about the past that can help shape our future.

For more information on Nick, our National Museum of Natural History or other Smithsonian work, check out: http://www.si.edu

Title: We Are Smithsonian
Runtime: 1:01
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: We are the world’s largest museum, research and education complex.

We are an active institution that opens new doors, analyzes big questions and searches to understand our place in the universe.

We are Smithsonian.

Learn more about who we are: www.si.edu

2016 North American Ornithological Conference--Keith Gagnon, age 9

Title: 2016 North American Ornithological Conference--Keith Gagnon, age 9
Runtime: 1:37
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Why Birds Really Matter

Step outside your house in the morning and one of the first things you will hear or see is a bird. They are such a ubiquitous part of our lives that most of the time we don’t even notice them. Yet the truth is that their numbers are declining. According to the State of North America’s Bird Report 2016 (http://www.stateofthebirds.org/2016/?__hstc=75100365.20762d78ceb7e1256ace47ba5c1f7a5c.1469325109171.1469325109171.1471299124454.2&__hssc=75100365.1.1471299124454&__hsfp=203841643#_ga=1.193180266.673982437.1469325108), more than one-third of North American bird species are at risk of extinction without significant conservation action.

The issue of conservations is not, in fact, for the birds. This week the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center (https://nationalzoo.si.edu/scbi/migratorybirds/) is hosting the largest-ever North American Ornithological Conference (http://naoc2016.cvent.com/events/naoc-2016/event-summary-9cca73ad2f044f8790ca0...

2016 North American Ornithological Conference--Catherine McKenna

Title: 2016 North American Ornithological Conference--Catherine McKenna
Runtime: 2:08
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Why Birds Really Matter

Step outside your house in the morning and one of the first things you will hear or see is a bird. They are such a ubiquitous part of our lives that most of the time we don’t even notice them. Yet the truth is that their numbers are declining. According to the State of North America’s Bird Report 2016 (http://www.stateofthebirds.org/2016/?__hstc=75100365.20762d78ceb7e1256ace47ba5c1f7a5c.1469325109171.1469325109171.1471299124454.2&__hssc=75100365.1.1471299124454&__hsfp=203841643#_ga=1.193180266.673982437.1469325108), more than one-third of North American bird species are at risk of extinction without significant conservation action.

The issue of conservations is not, in fact, for the birds. This week the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center (https://nationalzoo.si.edu/scbi/migratorybirds/) is hosting the largest-ever North American Ornithological Conference (http://naoc2016.cvent.com/events/naoc-2016/event-summary-9cca73ad2f044f8790ca0...

2016 North American Ornithological Conference--Sally Jewell

Title: 2016 North American Ornithological Conference--Sally Jewell
Runtime: 2:32
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Why Birds Really Matter

Step outside your house in the morning and one of the first things you will hear or see is a bird. They are such a ubiquitous part of our lives that most of the time we don’t even notice them. Yet the truth is that their numbers are declining. According to the State of North America’s Bird Report 2016 (http://www.stateofthebirds.org/2016/?__hstc=75100365.20762d78ceb7e1256ace47ba5c1f7a5c.1469325109171.1469325109171.1471299124454.2&__hssc=75100365.1.1471299124454&__hsfp=203841643#_ga=1.193180266.673982437.1469325108), more than one-third of North American bird species are at risk of extinction without significant conservation action.

The issue of conservations is not, in fact, for the birds. This week the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center (https://nationalzoo.si.edu/scbi/migratorybirds/) is hosting the largest-ever North American Ornithological Conference (http://naoc2016.cvent.com/events/naoc-2016/event-summary-9cca73ad2f044f8790ca0...

2016 North American Ornithological Conference, President Jimmy Carter

Title: 2016 North American Ornithological Conference, President Jimmy Carter
Runtime: 2:14
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Why Birds Really Matter

Step outside your house in the morning and one of the first things you will hear or see is a bird. They are such a ubiquitous part of our lives that most of the time we don’t even notice them. Yet the truth is that their numbers are declining. According to the State of North America’s Bird Report 2016 (http://www.stateofthebirds.org/2016/?__hstc=75100365.20762d78ceb7e1256ace47ba5c1f7a5c.1469325109171.1469325109171.1471299124454.2&__hssc=75100365.1.1471299124454&__hsfp=203841643#_ga=1.193180266.673982437.1469325108), more than one-third of North American bird species are at risk of extinction without significant conservation action.

The issue of conservations is not, in fact, for the birds. This week the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center (https://nationalzoo.si.edu/scbi/migratorybirds/) is hosting the largest-ever North American Ornithological Conference (http://naoc2016.cvent.com/events/naoc-2016/event-summary-9cca73ad2f044f8790ca0...

Title: Monitoring Seafood Catch Data
Runtime: 1:27
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Knowing what we take from our oceans matters. Smithsonian scientists are developing tools to better understand and protect our oceans. One project they are working on is a mobile app that collects catch data from remote fishing communities. Find out more at ourfish.org

Title: All Night On Air (Part 1)
Runtime: 3:00:01
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The first three hours of our "All Night on Air" program to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Museum's landmark building in Washington, DC. - Captured Live on Ustream at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/smithsonian-national-air-and-space-museum

Title: Smithsonian American Indian Museum
Runtime: 57:10
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Smithsonian American Indian Museum - Captured Live on Ustream at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/national-museum-of-the-american-indian

Title: Letters From Camp by Frank Chi
Runtime: 2:32
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Sponsored by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center and created by filmmaker Frank Chi, this short film features letters that young Japanese Americans in World War II incarceration camps sent to Clara Breed, a librarian in San Diego.

Excerpts from the letters are read by contemporary Muslim American youth standing beside Japanese American camp survivors. The survivors remain silent as the young people read stories that parallel their own hopes and fears.

This video will be featured in the center's event "CrossLines: A Culture Lab on Intersectionality," on May 28 and 29 at the Arts & Industries Building. Learn more at http://smithsonianapa.org/crosslines/

Title: CrossLines Trailer
Runtime: 2:41
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Join the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center May 28-29 for "CrossLines: A Culture Lab on Intersectionality," featuring over 40 artists and scholars in the historic Smithsonian Arts & Industries Building.

The Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building opened in 1880 as the first United States National Museum. After a century in transition and over a decade under renovation, CrossLines transforms it for one weekend into a museum of the people.

Title: The Smithsonian Women’s Committee
Runtime: 4:48
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Dedicated to advancing the Smithsonian's mission to increase and diffuse knowledge. Founded in 1966. The Smithsonian Women’s Committee celebrates fine American crafts through two signature events: the Smithsonian Craft Show and Craft2Wear. From the funds raised at these shows, and through endowments, the Committee awards grants throughout the Smithsonian. Find out more about the Smithsonian Women’s Committee at swcmembers.si.edu.

Conversations with Smithsonian Craft Artists: Lisa Zerkowitz

Title: Conversations with Smithsonian Craft Artists: Lisa Zerkowitz
Runtime: 1:16
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Eighth of eight Smithsonian Craft Show conversations featuring American craft artists. This Rhode Island School of Design graduate works in Los Angeles, CA with her husband Boyd Sugiki to create works of contemporary glass art. Find out more about the Smithsonian Craft Show at smithsoniancraftshow.org.

Conversations with Smithsonian Craft Artists: Aaron Macsai

Title: Conversations with Smithsonian Craft Artists: Aaron Macsai
Runtime: 1:09
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Seventh of eight Smithsonian Craft Show conversations featuring American craft artists. Aaron Macsai’s jewelry creations are marriages of precious metals. Find out more about the Smithsonian Craft Show at smithsoniancraftshow.org.

Conversations with Smithsonian Craft Artists: Randy Darwall

Title: Conversations with Smithsonian Craft Artists: Randy Darwall
Runtime: 1:40
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Sixth of eight Smithsonian Craft Show conversations featuring American craft artists. Randall Darwall is a hand weaver and designer who has been working in New England to create unique textiles for over 30 years. Find out more about the Smithsonian Craft Show at smithsoniancraftshow.org.

Great Collectors Series: Toots Zynsky “Evolution of Ideas”

Title: Great Collectors Series: Toots Zynsky “Evolution of Ideas”
Runtime: 4:13
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Parts of Toots Zynsky’s lecture “Evolution of Ideas” made during the Great Collectors Lecture Series at the 2015 Smithsonian Craft Show. Find out more about the Smithsonian Craft Show at smithsoniancraftshow.org.

Conversations with Smithsonian Craft Artists: Matthew Fine

Title: Conversations with Smithsonian Craft Artists: Matthew Fine
Runtime: 1:12
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Fifth of eight Smithsonian Craft Show conversations featuring American craft artists. Matthew Fine, contemporary artist, works with glass and granite to achieve his vision and lives in Norfolk, VA. Find out more about the Smithsonian Craft Show at smithsoniancraftshow.org.

Conversations with Smithsonian Craft Artists: Michael Puryear

Title: Conversations with Smithsonian Craft Artists: Michael Puryear
Runtime: 1:21
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Forth of eight Smithsonian Craft Show conversations featuring American craft artists. Michael Puryear, American studio furniture maker, lives in Shokan, New York. He creates custom functional furniture that achieves simplicity and elegance in design. Find out more about the Smithsonian Craft Show at smithsoniancraftshow.org.

Conversations with Smithsonian Craft Artists: Eric Serritella

Title: Conversations with Smithsonian Craft Artists: Eric Serritella
Runtime: 1:17
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Third of eight Smithsonian Craft Show conversations featuring American craft artists. Eric Serritella, American ceramic artist, lives in Chapel Hill, NC. His hand-carved, trompe l’oeil sculptures grace both public and private collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Find out more about the Smithsonian Craft Show at smithsoniancraftshow.org.

Title: Welcome to the Smithsonian Craft Show
Runtime: 3:11
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: What is the Smithsonian Craft Show? Join Smithsonian Women’s Committee members, craft show artists, and patrons to learn why it’s so special. Find out more about the Smithsonian Craft Show at smithsoniancraftshow.org.

Conversations with Smithsonian Craft Artists: Cliff Lee

Title: Conversations with Smithsonian Craft Artists: Cliff Lee
Runtime: 1:30
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Second of eight Smithsonian Craft Show conversations featuring American craft artists. Cliff Lee, the highly acclaimed and collected potter, sculpts organic forms inspired by Song dynasty porcelain. Find out more about the Smithsonian Craft Show at smithsoniancraftshow.org.

Conversations with Smithsonian Craft Artists: Mary Jackson

Title: Conversations with Smithsonian Craft Artists: Mary Jackson
Runtime: 1:22
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: First of eight Smithsonian Craft Show conversations featuring American craft artists. Mary Jackson, celebrated American sweetgrass basket maker and the 2010 recipient of a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, lives in Charleston, SC. Find out more about the Smithsonian Craft Show at http://smithsoniancraftshow.org.

Title: Infrared Thermography at Smithsonian
Runtime: 1:32
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: A look at the Office of Facilities Management and Reliability and how they use infrared thermography here at Smithsonian.

To learn more, visit http://facilities.si.edu/ofmr-in-action/infrared-thermography.html

The Secret Life of Orchids – Part III: Conservation

Title: The Secret Life of Orchids – Part III: Conservation
Runtime: 1:03
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Orchids account for 10 percent of the world’s plant species, making them the largest plant family. They act as indicators of the health of ecosystems and other species around them. That’s why understanding what’s necessary for their survival and investing in their conservation is important.

To learn more about native orchid conservation, visit the North American Orchid Conservation Center at http://northamericanorchidcenter.org/.

For 50 years, scientists at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center have been leading research to meet the environmental challenges of the 21st century.

SI-Q What animal looks like a fox, smells like a skunk and is called a wolf?

Title: SI-Q What animal looks like a fox, smells like a skunk and is called a wolf?
Runtime: 1:45
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Nucharin Songsasen and Paul Marinari of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute share little known facts and smelly stories about maned wolves.

SI-Q Did you know there are more than 25,000 species of orchids in the wild?

Title: SI-Q Did you know there are more than 25,000 species of orchids in the wild?
Runtime: 1:31
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Melissa McCormick and Dennis Whigham of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center show us that not all orchids are bright and colorful. In fact, you may have orchids in your own backyard.

Title: SI-Q Which bear species wears glasses?
Runtime: 0:55
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Craig Saffoe, curator of Andean bears at the National Zoo, tells us about the distinctive markings of Andean Bears.

Title: SI-Q How can design tell a story?
Runtime: 1:14
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Join Jessica Schick, exhibits specialist at Smithsonian Exhibits, for a behind-the-scenes look at how the Smithsonian builds, prints and designs our exhibits.

The Secret Life of Orchids – Part II: Pollinators

Title: The Secret Life of Orchids – Part II: Pollinators
Runtime: 1:17
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Orchids are beautiful, but their beauty can be deceiving. Most orchids don’t have any nectar, yet they cheat their pollinators into thinking that they do by attracting them with colorful, open flowers. By the time the pollinator realizes it’s been cheated, it flies away carrying the orchid’s pollen.

Melissa McCormick, a plant ecologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Md., explains the relationship between orchids and their pollinators.

Also unlike other flowers, which evenly exchange nutrients with their fungi, orchids actually digest the fungi in their roots, cheating them out of this exchange.

For 50 years, scientists at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center have been leading research to meet the environmental challenges of the 21st century.

6 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Andean Bears

Title: 6 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Andean Bears
Runtime: 1:37
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Giant Pandas. Grizzlies. You’ve probably heard a lot about these bear species, but what about Andean bears? To the Quechua and Aymara, the indigenous communities of the Andes, Andean bears are known for being loving and happy, seeking harmony and balance in nature. They are listed as vulnerable on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species, with an estimated 20,000 left in the wild.

Craig Saffoe, curator of Andean bears at the National Zoo, reveals six more things you probably didn’t know about Andean bears. Three of the five Andean bear cub litters born at North American zoos in the past 10 years were at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo. Visit the National Zoo’s website at http://nationalzoo.si.edu to learn more about these fascinating bears.

Title: SI-Q Can chipmunks fly?
Runtime: 1:11
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Join Anthony Carp at Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum as he shows us why some planes are hung at angles at the Steven F. Udvar Hazy Center.

Video credit: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM VD 02030).

The Secret Life of Orchids – Part I: Fungi

Title: The Secret Life of Orchids – Part I: Fungi
Runtime: 1:23
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: We know some types of fungi turn ants into zombies, but fungi are not always the bad guys. In the case of orchids, fungi are actually the victims.

Melissa McCormick, a plant ecologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, explains the unique relationship between orchids and fungi.

Visit the North American Orchid Conservation Center website to learn how the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center is leading the charge to save orchids.

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