ICYMI: Highlights from the week of April 6 – April 10, 2020
No one can keep up with everything, so let us do it for you. We’ll gather the top Smithsonian stories from across the country and around the world each week so you’ll never be at a loss for conversation around the water cooler.
Despite the constraints of a global pandemic, research and discovery continues on both a microscopic and galactic scale.
Coronavirus
How to Avoid Misinformation About COVID-19
Smithsonian.com – April 9, 2020
Museums Are Urgently Collecting Homemade Masks and Other Ephemera From the Coronavirus Pandemic to Document History as It Unfolds
artnet News – April 8, 2020
How zookeepers at DC’s National Zoo are navigating the pandemic
WTOP.com – April 7, 2020
Kennedy Center and National Symphony Orchestra reach agreement to avert furloughs
The Washington Post – April 7, 2020
Museums scramble to document the pandemic, even as it unfolds
Chicago Tribune – April 7, 2020
A year after the first black hole image, the EHT has been stymied by the coronavirus
Science News – April 10, 2020
History, Culture and Education
How New Efforts Are Recovering the Stories of People Who Were Deleted From History
Time Magazine – April 7, 2020
18 fascinating nonfiction podcasts (that aren’t true crime)
Vox – April 8, 2020
he Smithsonian Needs Your Help Transcribing Sally Ride’s Notebooks
Mental Floss – April 8, 2020
Science and Technology
Astronomers clock extremely high winds on an object outside of our solar system
CNN-US – April 9, 2020
Winds of 1,500 MPH Recorded on ‘Failed Star’ 33 Light-Years Away in First Observation of Its Kind
Newsweek – April 9, 2020
You Can Watch These Fuzzy Newborn Cheetah Cubs on the National Zoo’s Cub Cam All Day Long
Washingtonian Magazine – April 9, 2020
Litter of cheetah cubs born at Virginia Smithsonian facility
WTOP.com – April 8, 2020
Cheetah cub born at Zoo’s Front Royal facility
The Washington Post – April 8, 2020
Incredible image of high-energy jets spurting out of a supermassive black hole at nearly the speed of light is captured by the Event Horizon Telescope
Daily Mail Online – April 8, 2020
6 new coronaviruses discovered in bats
LiveScience – April 10, 2020
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Posted: 10 April 2020
