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This month's blog carnival highlights one blogger's old toys, an odd street intersection, why sketchbooks still matter and more
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On day 2 of the Folklife Festival, enjoy music from South America, doo-wop and Martha Reeves, as well as cooking lessons from the Peace Corps
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Galangal is a rhizome in the same family as ginger, which it resembles in appearance and, to some degree, flavor
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Smithsonian magazine photo editor Molly Roberts is among the many Institution employees with work on view in this exhibit
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Slasher is a turkey—give me Suchomimus, Acrocanthosaurus or Cryolophosaurus any day
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Today at the Folklife Festival: Colombia, The Peace Corps, and Rhythm and Blues
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Since it opened on July 1, 1976, the museum has hosted a grand total of 303,674,128 visitors
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The first tropical storm of 2011 is a reminder to prepare for potential disasters
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Pairing beer with savory foods is what most of us traditionally do. But who's to say you can't find beers fit for a dessert course?
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It seems as though the film might have been exhibiting camp tendencies back in 1956, too
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To me, it looks like the dinosaur is trying to do a Kool-Aid Man impression: Oh Yeah!
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Seven D.C. interns tackled a challenging task: visiting 17 Smithsonian museums located in Washington, D.C. and northern Virginia in one day
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We've all used a fishy metaphor in the past, but use the wrong one and you can look pretty stupid
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Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Nakhla meteorite falling to Earth. See and touch this piece of Mars at the Natural History Museum
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Entomophagy—the fancy Latin term for eating insects—is beginning to catch on in the Western Hemisphere
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The site became a must-see dinosaur landmark in 1957, and in a few months, visitors will once again be able to see the spectacular quarry wall
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James Smithson died June 27, 1829, setting in motion a series of circuitous events that would lead to the eventual creation of the Smithsonian Institution
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Contrary to a snarky review, this monograph is one of the most important works ever published in the history of vertebrate paleontology
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