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Portrait of global philanthropic team Bill and Melinda Gates by Jon Friedman, 2011

See Bill and Melinda Gates at the Portrait Gallery

Pulp wood (but not the kind that may appear in your cheese or bread).

The Wood in Your Food

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The Diplodocus Tripod

The Great Barrier Reef

Ocean Acidification and the Battle Between Coral and Seaweed

Ocean acidification creates plenty of potential problems for life in the oceans, but corals might have it the worst

Evalyn McLean (c. 1914) wearing the Hope Diamond

Don’t You Wish You Could Wear the Hope Diamond?

How did such a huge rock come to be in the possession of such a party girl like Evalyn McLean

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

Blogger Sarah brought NASA-mission-themed cookies to the office last week

Why I’m Not Sorry to See the Space Shuttle End

I have to say, when I think about the end of the Space Shuttle program, I'm really not that sorry to see it come to a close

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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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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

A View From Above of Memphis Flooding

The London Natural History Museum

London Goes Back to the Age of the Dinosaur

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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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The Manga Guide to Relativity

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