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The museum remembers D.C.'s own "Godfather of Go-Go" with a concert today
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Shards of 6,000-year-old cooking pots from northern Europe show traces of mustard seed, likely used as a seasoning for fish and meat
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Smithsonian Folkways interviewed the man who inspired the new film starring Forest Whitaker
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Graduate student Jason Ahrns and colleagues hunt the skies for sprites—fleeting streaks and bursts of color that can appear above thunderstorms
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Three female Asian elephants will come to the National Zoo from the Calgary Zoo in spring of 2014
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Some architects played with Legos as a child. And some never stopped playing with them
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Preindustrial workers built huge industries based on the liquid's cleaning power and corrosiveness--and the staler the pee, the better
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By analyzing a the DNA of fish sold across the country, researchers have found that roughly a third of U.S. seafood is mislabeled
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Sake has been brewed for thousands of years in Japan. Now, American brewers are starting to make sake—but is it any good?
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For starters, laptops in classrooms are a big distraction, singing phrases can help you learn a language and multitasking isn't good for your grades
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A furtive antiquarian nicknamed Stoney Jack was responsible for almost every major archaeological find made in London between 1895 and 1939
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The cardboard sleeve became the ubiquitous finger-saver for coffee fanatics everywhere
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As reefs continue dying off, scientists have started to think more boldly about how to protect them
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Japanese scientists determined that warmer temperatures have gradually made the fruits mealier and less flavorful
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The childhood toy becomes an architect's dream come true
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The two titans of American poetry chronicled the death and destruction of the Civil War in their poems
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Some capsized ships may linger on the ocean floor indefinitely
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A Smithsonian marine biologist investigates the sudden die-off of bottlenose dolphins along the Atlantic—and suspects that human activity may play a role
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The nouveau riche of the Gilded Age had buckets of money but little social standing—until they started marrying their daughters to British nobles
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Sergio Albiac generates images of people by collecting their head shots and replacing pixels with snippets from pictures of stars and galaxies
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