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| Jolie Citrine Necklace |
Exhibit Cases: Color in a New Light |
An extraordinary citrine necklace, donated to the Smithsonian's National Gem Collection by film actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie Pitt, is now on exhibit in the Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems and Minerals.
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Most of us take color for granted. But do we stop to think about what color actually is? Journeying through the collections of the Smithsonian Libraries—from chemistry to catalogs, from colorblind tests to couture—we might see color in a new light.
Opens January 23. Ground Floor.
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Help the Museum remain a "forever place." Your contribution will strengthen collections and research while supporting and energizing its audience. Be a part of the mission— enable others to understand the natural world and our place in it.
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Share your fascination with fossils, interest in insects, or passion for plants! We are actively recruiting volunteers for a variety of opportunities at the Museum, either working with the public or behind-the-scenes.
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| Smithsonian Science How: Bones |
YES! Internships: Apply Now |
Live Webcasts: Feb. 11, 11 a.m. & 2 p.m. EST
During interactive webcasts, "How Bones Reveal Environmental Health," anthropologist Sabrina Sholts will discuss how she studies skeletons—and particularly human skulls—to understand environmental health.
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Application Deadline: January 29, 2016
Youth Engagement through Science (YES!) is a 12-week career immersion and science communication program for rising sophomores, juniors, and seniors from high schools in the Washington, D.C., region.
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| Anthropocene Roots in the Fossil Record |
A Moby Dick in Our Collections |
A new analysis of the fossil record by scientists at the National Museum of Natural History has revealed that the structure of plant and animal communities changed significantly about 6,000 years ago, around the time agriculture began to spread across North America. The shift disrupted a pattern that had been stable for 300 million years.
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Smithsonian researchers have rediscovered a 300-pound sperm whale fossil, which had been misinterpreted as a fossil walrus a century ago. The fossil whale has been renamed Albicetus oxymycterus, based on the Latin for white whale (albus cetus), after Herman Melville’s classic novel, Moby-Dick.
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| Life and Death in the Arctic |
Climate Change Game Night |
Friday, January 15, 9-10:30 a.m.
Dr. Morten Meldgaard, a professor of Arctic environmental history at the University of Greenland and the former director of the Danish Natural History Museum, presents the Burch Memorial Lecture: "Caribou, Cod, Climate, and Man: A Story of Life and Death in the Arctic."
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Thursday, January 21, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Winning may not be everything, but it can help protect the planet. Bring your competitive spirit to the Museum for an evening of climate change games. Play newly developed games, talk with game designers, and give feedback during this open-house event. It's serious fun.
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BANNER IMAGE:
From the exhibition, Primordial Landscapes: Iceland Revealed. Photographer Feodor Pitcairn and poet Ari Trausti Guðmundsson reveal a land of fire, ice, hardy life, and natural beauty in this exhibItion, which is on view until April 2017 at the National Museum of Natural History.
The Bárðarbunga volcanic system is the largest of its kind in Iceland. This volcanic fissure has been its main source of recent volcanic activity. By January 2015, the eruption had produced a lava flow bigger than Manhattan Island, NY.
Image Credit: Feo Pitcairn Fine Art.
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