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A pigeon's turn is very different from that of an airplane

How A Pigeon Is Like A Helicopter

The bird changes direction with its whole body

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Has Terra Nova Delivered on the Dinosaurs?

What's the use of setting your science-fiction family drama 85 million years in the past if you're not going to highlight some of the local fauna?

The Anamorphose

Is a “Garden” the World’s Greatest New Artwork?

Francois Abelanet's extraordinary turf "sculpture" on a Paris plaza epitomizes a grand tradition of artful illusion

Ferdinand Pecora

The Man Who Busted the ‘Banksters’

Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-400 D

Airplanes, Suspended in Time, at the Air and Space Museum

In his photographs, now on display at the National Air and Space Museum, Jeffrey Milstein bares the bellies of airplanes

Facing the Void: Ellee Thalheimer stands before a high pass near Sampeyre, Italy after an ascent of several thousand feet.

Women and the Way of the Pedal-empowered

Susan B. Anthony said bicycling "emancipates women than anything else in the world. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel"

Esther Nisenthal Krinitz' fabric depiction of pasturing livestock next to a Nazi labor camp in Poland

Through the Eye of the Needle: Views of the Holocaust at Ripley Center

A Holocaust survivor's story is told through a visually stunning new exhibition of fabric art at the S. Dillon Ripley Center

The outline of a mastodon skeleton, found at a pre-Clovis site in Washington, indicating where a spear hit the animal.

The First Americans

Technicans work on the Mars Science Laboratory, aka Curiosity

Curious About Curiosity? What to Read on the Mars Science Laboratory

The traveling science laboratory launched successfully on Saturday and is scheduled to touch down on the red planet in August 2012

Are there drugs that can enhance your memory?

Are Mind-Enhancing Drugs a Good Idea?

Scientists are testing drugs that can sharpen our brain. But will they give some people an unfair advantage?

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The Simpsons Sit With Dinosaurs

D'oh! Homer and the gang meet up with some scary dinosaurs

Enjoy an evening event at the groundbreaking exhibition "The Bright Beneath."

Events Nov. 28-Dec. 1: Postal Tours, Viva Verdi, Celebrating Roots and The Bright Beneath

Take a guided tour of the Postal Museum, celebrate an opera composer, attend a poetry performance and mingle at the Natural History Museum at night

"Superfudge" author Judy Blume

Author Judy Blume to Speak at the Smithsonian

Blume will receive a John P. McGovern Award from Smithsonian Associates Monday evening at the Ripley Center

A reconstructed model of a young Tyrannosaurus at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Were these little tyrants covered in feathers?

Was Tyrannosaurus a Big Turkey?

Beth Lipman's sculpture "Bancketje," is on view at the Renwick.

The List: Five Feasts in American Art

In honor of Thanksgiving Day, we present a wide array of feasts found in the Smithsonian's art collections

Thanksgiving meal in a pill

A Thanksgiving Meal (in-a-pill)

The future of food was envisioned by many prognosticators as entirely meatless and often synthetic

Pumpkin pies

Thanksgiving in Literature

Holiday readings from Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Philip Roth and contemporary novels that use Thanksgiving as the backdrop for family dysfunction

Jean Dujardin as George Valentin and Berenice Bejo as Peppy Miller in Michel Hazanavicius's film The Artist.

The Artist: Making Silents Safe Again

Old techniques from the latest Oscar contender can change the way you look at modern movies

Come see BK Adam's "Exercise Your Mynd" exhibition and make your own walking figures.

Weekend Events Nov. 25-27: Zoo Lights, Make Them Walk and What’s in the Castle?

This week, come of the opening of the Zoo's holiday light show, make your own art and get a guided tour of the Smithsonian Castle

Beijing's "Bird's Nest"

A Prize-Winning Architecture Tour of Beijing

The next Pritzker Prize for architecture will be awarded in the Chinese capital, a tribute to its new crop of award-worthy structures

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