Blogs

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Face to Face With a Garbage Patch at Sea

Artichokes

Five Ways to Eat Artichokes

Butter or mayonnaise are simple, traditional and perfectly acceptable accompaniments, but why stop there? Here are five other ideas

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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

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This Thursday Make it a Movie Night at the Film Forward Festival

Full-color vending machine

The Next Generation of Vending Machines

Is this the next logical step in our ongoing quest for convenience or does it make accessing foodstuffs more complicated than it should be?

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Kelmayisaurus Gets a Family

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Boredom and Other Helpful Time Wasters

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The Simpsons Break Into the Smithsonian

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Events for May 9-May 13: Harry Potter, Cultural Dialogue, "Cosmic Collisions"

Bean tostada

Inviting Writing: Long-Lost Cookies and Mysterious Beans

O.C. Marsh's conception of an eight-spiked Stegosaurus

The Myth of the Eight-Spiked Stegosaurus

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A Quick Tour Through the Nature of our Universe

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A Satellite View of Tornado Scars

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Bringing Dinosaurs Up to Speed

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The Birth of Brunch: Where Did This Meal Come From Anyway?

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Weekend Events: Asian Pacific American Heritage, Garden Fest, Mother's Day

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It's Time to Garden at the Smithsonian

Astronaut Alan Shepard in his pressure suit, for the Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) flight, the first American manned space flight. On May 5, 1961, Shepard piloted the Freedom 7 mission and became the second person, and the first American, to travel into space.

On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard Went to Outer Space and Came Home

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the first American in space

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