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Smithsonian Voices

The Smithsonian Institution has hundreds of scholars, researchers and curators, each with an amazing story to tell about their work, their quests and their passions. Here is a sampling of the unique voices that make up the chorus of ideas at the Institution.

Manitok Thompson, Veronica Connelly, Rosie Kowna Oolooyuk, and Bernadette Dean at the National Museum of the American Indian's Cultural Resources Center. The four women—skilled caribou and sealskin clothing makers, and fluent Inuktitut-speakers and knowledge keepers—traveled to Washington from Nunavut as guests of the Embassy of Canada to attend the opening of the embassy's exhibition
National Museum of the American Indian

Inuit Women's Survival Skills, Which Kept Arctic Explorers Alive, Help Heal Residential School Survivors

May 23rd, 2018, 5:00PM
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A drawer of pinned adult mosquitoes from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History’s National Mosquito Collection. The specimens shown here were digitized recently. Meaning, their bionomic information is databased and individual specimens are cataloged. (David Pecor, WBRU)
National Museum of Natural History

Can Scientists Stop One of the World's Deadliest Mosquitoes?

May 23rd, 2018, 12:58PM
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Delaware leaders prepare to unveil the Treaty of Fort Pitt, on view at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. From left to right: Denise Stonefish, chief of the Delaware Nation at Moraviantown; museum director Kevin Gover; Chester “Chet’ Brooks, chief of the Delaware Tribe of Indians; and Deborah Dotson, president of the Delaware Nation. May 10, 2018, Washington, D.C. (Paul Morigi/AP Images for the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian)
National Museum of the American Indian

A Brief Balance of Power—The 1778 Treaty with the Delaware Nation

May 21st, 2018, 10:06PM
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National Museum of Natural History

Meet the People Leading the Fight Against Pandemics

May 18th, 2018, 9:10AM
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Photograph of John Steuart Curry sketching a football practice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1936 or 1937 / unidentified photographer. John Steuart Curry and Curry family papers, 1848-1999. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Archives of American Art

Sketching at the Scrimmage Line: The Story of a Photograph

May 18th, 2018, 8:50AM
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NASA's Project Mercury astronauts on April 9, 1959. Known as the Mercury Seven or Original Seven, they are (front row, left to right) Walter M.
National Air and Space Museum

Remembering Tom Wolfe and "The Right Stuff"

May 17th, 2018, 5:03PM
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The Panamanian golden frog is in the toad family. Toads usually have dry skin compared to other frogs. (Brian Gratwicke, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute)
Smithsonian Science Education Center

Why Did Scientists Build an Amphibian Ark?

May 16th, 2018, 2:10PM
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Miné Okubo letter to Kay Sekimachi and Bob Stocksdale, ca. 1980. Bob Stocksdale and Kay Sekimachi papers, 1937-2014. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Archives of American Art

A Friendship in Letters: Miné Okubo and Kay Sekimachi

May 14th, 2018, 4:44PM
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Entry for December 12, 1941, Toku Shimomura Diary, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
Archives of American Art

How Superman and His Grandmother's Diary Inspired Roger Shimomura

May 11th, 2018, 1:32PM
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T’Challa’s Royal Talon Fighter flying above Wakanda in the film Black Panther. Credit: Marvel Studios.
National Air and Space Museum

How Wakanda’s Talon Fighter Compares to Real World Aviation

May 11th, 2018, 10:39AM
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