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Siegfried's Mechanical Music Cabinet displays 350 or so automatic musical instruments—prototype jukeboxes, hand-cranked carnival machines and monstrous pianolas—all in working order.

The Offbeat Museums of Europe

Lost souls, music boxes and shoes fill some of the continent's most peculiar collections

ILL-abilities crew

Events for the Week of 5/16-5/21: Zoo Feedings, ILL-Abilities Crew, Celebrate Hawai’i

Events for the week of 5/16/11 - 5/21/11

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Tiny Tarbosaurus Shows How Tyrants Grew Up

The new Tarbosaurus juvenile is a truly remarkable specimen

Baked cardoons

Inviting Writing: Aunt Molly’s Mysterious Greens

Today's memory about cardoons comes from Susie Petitti Tilton, who works at Williams-Sonoma and has a small business baking decorated sugar cookies

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What Is It Like to View a Space Shuttle Launch?

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Agatha Christie on the Big and Small Screen

Even though Dame Agatha may not have enjoyed adaptations of her mysteries, audiences have been loving them for decades

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A New App Called Leafsnap

Pancakes from IHOP

I’ll Have the Rooty Toot—Oh, Nevermind. World’s Most Embarrassing Menu Items to Order

In no particular order, here are my top five most embarrassing things to order (not including the IHOP dish, the clear winner)

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Weekend events May 13 - May 15: Cosmic Collisions, "Metropolis" With Music, Stripmall Ballads

The London Natural History Museum

London Goes Back to the Age of the Dinosaur

Investigators with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey have created the biggest 3-D map of the distant universe ever made.

A 3-D Map of the Universe, No Glasses Required

Investigators at the Sloan Digital Sky Survey track changes in the sky and some of the universe’s great mysteries

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What Does it Mean to be "Museum-Worthy?" How a Political History Curator Defines the Term

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The List- Five Must-See Butterfly Spots Around the Mall

Screenshot of the Food Desert Locator home page.

New Tool Maps Food Deserts in the U.S.

Approximately 23.5 million Americans are living in food deserts, most of whom live in urban areas

The fossil-rich landscape of Wyoming's Bighorn Basin

Wyoming Workshop Offers Teachers a Week With Dinosaurs

Based out of Shell, Wyoming, the workshops can be taken for college credit and are led by Smithsonian paleontologist Michael Brett-Surman

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Face to Face With a Garbage Patch at Sea

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A Delayed Tyrannosaurus Showdown

Andrew Young

At the Portrait Gallery: The Civil Rights Legend Ambassador Andrew Young

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Hydrothermal Vents Fertilize Oceans With Fool's Gold

Stephen King's Carrie was a best-selling novel and a popular 1976 film, but it did not, however, make for an equally successful Broadway musical in 1988.

Broadway’s Top Ten Musical Flops

With the imminent re-opening of Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark, we look back on some of the most memorable failures in musical theater history

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