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How much technology is too much?

So Many Gadgets, So Little Time

Innovation happens so fast now that it's harder and harder to keep up with the pace. But is it really innovation?

Joel McCrea, Dean Stockwell, and Ellen Drew in Stars in My Crown

Five Films About Faith

Movies that question your beliefs, from Steve Martin to Bengalese film to a nostalgic look at the old West

Enjoy an acoustic performance by John Davis of the DC-based group Title Tracks.

Weekend Events Dec. 16-18: Happy Feet Two, All About Me in D.C., and Title Tracks Unplugged

This week, see Happy Feet Two in 3D, meet a children's author, and enjoy an acoustic performance by a local indie frontman

Consider food—and food-themed gifts—this holiday season.

Last Minute Food-Themed Gift Ideas

Food, jewelry, toys and books for those hard-to-shop-for people on your gift list

Nephila clavipes, a tropical spider, is big enough that it can keep all its brains in its body rather than in its legs

Some Spiders Have Brains in Their Legs

Just one more reason it's not nice to pull the appendages off of creepy crawlies

Sites like Brussels' Place du Jeu de Balle are featured in the new Tintin movie.

Tintin is Everywhere in Brussels

The famed comic book character, now a Steven Spielberg-Peter Jackson film, is a nifty way to know the Belgian capital

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Holy Zamboni! The Zoo’s Skating Rink Has No Ice

The new skating rink at the National Zoo is a high-tech innovation made of recycled acrylic

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December Dinosaur Digest

From guarding cars to stomping around New Jersey, dinosaurs have been prominent in this week's headlines

Three great picture books from 2011

A Trio of Outstanding Picture Books

Three more books to add to the Best of Childrens Books 2011 list

Fossil leaves from the 77,000-year-old mattress

The World’s Oldest Mattress

A 77,000-year-old grass mattress is the earliest bed in the archaeological record. What did earlier hominids sleep on?

Curator Carlene Stephens, on left, and collections manager Shari Stout look at a glass disc containing a sound recording from the 1880s.

From the Collections, Sound Recordings Heard for the First Time

The National Museum of American History recovers sound from recordings that have been silenced for over a century

Gestational diabetes is a risk for older pregnant women.

The Gestational Diabetes Diet: Taking Carbs from a Pregnant Lady

The last thing a pasta-loving pregnant lady with a sweet tooth wants to hear is that she should cut out carbs

In Nepal, the Lambrecht family of Sebastopol, California is loving life and local transport.

Have Kids, Will Travel

"We were travelers. It was in our blood, and the idea that we would ever stop traveling just because we had kids never sat well with us"

The Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge University

Read Sir Isaac Newton’s Works Online

Cambridge University is digitizing its collection of works by Newton and other revolutionary scientists of the past

Amundsen at the South Pole, one hundred years ago today

The Path of Exploration

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The Dinosaur Family Foodchain

You Are Umasou has to be one of the cutest dinosaur films ever, and one of the strangest

The foamy head of a Ramos gin fizz

Raise a Glass to Cocktail Science

Harvard scientists examine the science behind mixology and may help you build a better cocktail

Modern Mechanix and Inventions (April, 1934)

Boxing Robots of the 1930s

Jack Dempsey boasted he could tear apart a robot opponent "bolt by bolt and scatter its brain wheels and cogs all over the canvas"

A page from my own calendar, with a photo of giraffes taken at Tarongo Zoo in Sydney, Australia

Should You Buy a Wildlife Calendar?

Not all photographers are ethical about where they shoot their photos

The Presto ordering system

My Name is Presto and I’ll Be Your Waiter

At more and more restaurants you'll be ordering your meals on a tablet at your tabletop. Will we miss waiters?

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