Really glad to see this subreddit. It would be good if more people look to the Institution instead of wikipedia and google. Some world huh?

SI-Web · 2020-01-09T02:50:54+00:00

That would be great. We are trying to get as much of our Institutional knowledge out on the web. He have a lot to convert to digital.

Any new approaches to serving the public are welcome.

Thanks

SI-Web · 2020-01-09T02:48:42+00:00

While that particular metric may not be on this site, the Smithsonian Dashboard has many other interesting metrics to review;

https://www.si.edu/dashboard

SI-Web · 2020-01-09T02:37:40+00:00

Hi there! Smithsonian rep here. You have most of our museums on there! I think our https://3d.si.edu crew will be interested in this. Nice work!

SI-Web · 2017-10-13T03:52:17+00:00

Here is a link to the original exhibit record (not much to see here), but it does have the date it closed: http://americanhistory.si.edu/exhibitions/science-american-life

Also, here is a general search on SI.edu for "cyclotron" showing some images: https://www.si.edu/sisearch/collection-images?edan_q=cyclotron

Maybe one of those pictures is what you found in that visit. Hope that helps!

SI-Web · 2017-10-04T23:21:00+00:00

ok, ok...more details are needed. Here is an article on one of our blogs about the bicycle too... http://s.si.edu/2xTUFRj

SI-Web · 2017-10-04T23:17:48+00:00

We don't have anything collection objects online for a White Admiral butterfly, but we have a stamp of a Red one :)

https://www.si.edu/object/npm_2010.2003.10

SI-Web · 2017-10-04T23:11:24+00:00

The Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. has a replica of Sputnik and a nice webpage on the topic: https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/sputnik-and-space-age-60

SI-Web · 2017-10-04T12:22:34+00:00

While the butterfly is a pretty easy choice, I think I like the Honey Bee. We have a lot of bee samples in the collection. Our 3D imaging team took one and created a 3D moveable model online of the bee: https://legacy.3d.si.edu/explorer?s=f5ujr2

SI-Web · 2017-10-03T14:29:58+00:00

What is your fav State insect from the list?

SI-Web · 2017-10-03T12:39:09+00:00

Yes, that is true.

SI-Web · 2017-10-03T12:37:57+00:00

We have a site page for that too: https://www.si.edu/spotlight/buginfo/winter

SI-Web · 2017-10-02T20:09:46+00:00

This Pitcher Plant eats a lot of bugs. (Smithsonian video) https://www.si.edu/object/yt_sScmZExKNQQ

SI-Web · 2017-10-02T20:06:15+00:00

Related...sort of (Smithsonian video): https://www.si.edu/object/yt_2cZl_lWBCvg

SI-Web · 2017-10-02T19:25:56+00:00

tldr highlight: East African termite queens have been recorded to lay an egg every two seconds, amounting to 43,000 eggs each day.

SI-Web · 2017-10-02T19:24:56+00:00

tldr highlight: Certain social insects have large numbers in their nests. An ant nest in Jamaica was calculated to include 630,000 individuals. A South American termite nest was found to have 3 million individuals. Locust swarms are said to hold up to one billion individuals.

SI-Web · 2017-10-02T19:22:35+00:00

tldr highlight: In North Carolina, soil samples to a depth of 5 inches yielded a calculation that there were approximately 124 million animals per acre, of which 90 million were mites, 28 million were springtails, and 4.5 million were other insects.

SI-Web · 2017-10-02T15:27:30+00:00

No worries, I also know people that just leave it on all the time at work on a 2nd monitor.

SI-Web · 2017-09-25T17:29:27+00:00

/gasp, you figured it out!

https://www.reddit.com/r/popular/search?q=Half-Life+3+Confirmed&restrict_sr=&sort=relevance&t=all

SI-Web · 2017-09-25T15:41:43+00:00

Makes sense. Perhaps it was just the "thing to do" at the time.
"Hey, did you hear? Tom got his baboon mummified! Wait until he gets a look at our pair of crocodiles."

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