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	<title>Problem Solving with Smithsonian Experts</title>
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		<title>How did photography help you solve a problem?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since they were invented, and with the spread of images made possible by digital technology, photographs have become essential in the problem solving.  As close to 100 stories collected in the Smithsonian Photography Initiative’s online project, click! photography changes everything point out, photography helps us to think and work our way through issues, big and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creating Hawai&#8217;i</title>
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Creating Hawai&#8217;i
      
      The conference podcast above and its accompanying “Creating Hawai’i” display case are not merely a history of the Islands, they are also opportunities to examine the concept of “perception vs. reality” with Hawai’i as a point of interest. The curators begin with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smithsonian Folkways Image Galleries</title>
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		<title>Welcome to Day 3: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Universe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Charles Alcock, Director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, introduces the third day of the Online Conference and invites us to ask good questions if we wish to find good answers that unlock the mysteries of the universe.

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		<title>Welcome to Day 4: Understanding and Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cristián Samper, Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, introduces the theme for Day 4 of the Online Conference.  He talks about the kind of work being done across the Smithsonian related to biodiversity and highlights the work of some of the experts we&#8217;ll be meeting on the final day of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to Day 2: Valuing World Cultures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[James Counts Early, Director of Cultural Heritage Policy, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, welcomes you to Day 2 of the Online Conference.  He describes how Smithsonian experts from across the institution work to build global connections and study and share world cultures.

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		<title>Welcome to Day 1: Understanding the American Experience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Betsy Broun, Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, welcomes you to Day 1 of the Online Conference.  She describes how the Smithsonian and experts from its 19 museums and research centers help tell the story of the American experience.

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		<title>Discussion: Please Introduce Yourself</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please take a moment to introduce yourself to conference participants. You might like to tell us about where you work or study, what city or country you are in, and about your interest in this conference. What attracted you to this online event? What do you hope to learn? What is your approach to problem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What do you wonder? Join us in asking the big questions.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Smithsonian historians, scientists, and other researchers share their questions, their methods, and their intriguing findings in an interactive format that welcomes you to contribute your own ideas.

Who are the unknown artists of World War II?
How do you track an ocelot in the wild?
What does a skeleton tell you about our nation’s history?
Why is it important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How (and why) do we count living things?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SESSION DESCRIPTION:
How many species of beetles and trees are in the Amazon rainforest?  And why should we care?  Entomologist C. J. Geraci and colleague Michael Biondi explain the importance of this information and demonstrate a new way of precisely measuring biodiversity — a web-based application for mapping the distribution of beetles and canopy [...]]]></description>
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