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Whitewash or Fair Use: Portraying Race on Film

How much does context matter when looking at instances of racism in movies? A journey back to the earliest instances of unapologetic stereotypes to this week's release of The Dictator
May 18, 2012 | By Daniel Eagan

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Was LSD the Soviet Union's secret weapon?
May 18, 2012 | By Matt Novak

For the first time in 18 years, a solar eclipse will be visible in the continental United States
May 18, 2012 | By Joseph Stromberg

These beers should last for several hot summers and cold winters. Where exactly are they hidden? Here are the directions
May 18, 2012 | By Alastair Bland

Betty White is a self-described “zoo nut.” At age 90, she balances her still-thriving acting career with advocacy work for zoos—particularly the Los Angeles Zoo, where she serves as a trustee. “Wherever I travel, I try to steal time to check out whatever zoo is within reach,” she writes, in her latest book Betty & [...]
May 18, 2012 | By Megan Gambino

Food and Think Blog

Books on How To Get Pickled

Curious about the middle ground between fresh and rotten? These four books tell you how to preserve the fleeting tastes of spring
May 18, 2012 | By Peter Smith

Dinosaur Tracking Blog

When Dinosaur Parties Go Bad

The key take-home lesson: Never anger anyone with a thagomizer
May 18, 2012 | By Brian Switek

Forget Chicago deep-dish, Roman pizza bianca and Domino's. For the best, most authentic pizza, go to Napoli
May 18, 2012 | By Susan Spano

This weekend celebrate Asian-Pacific Heritage Month, do the Mambo at the National Museum of African Art and witness Tom Stone carve a traditional Hawiian surfboard.
May 17, 2012 | By K. Annabelle Smith

American troops tuning in to wartime German radio broadcasts found themselves listening to one of Hitler's strangest experiments: the swinging sounds and virulently pro-Nazi lyrics of Charlie and His Orchestra
May 17, 2012 | By Mike Dash

The guitarist and singer pioneered the genre of Go-Go and became intricately connected with DC's cultural identity
May 17, 2012 | By Joseph Stromberg

A recent innovation in the design of the airline meal tray has resulted in massive savings. Maybe the next innovation should focus on the actual food.
May 17, 2012 | By Sarah C. Rich

Salt, it may be useful to know, cures a zombie
May 17, 2012 | By Jesse Rhodes

New technology is allowing the paralyzed to walk and the blind to see. And it's becoming a smaller leap from repairing bodies to enhancing them
May 17, 2012 | By Randy Rieland

Surprising Science Blog

The Science of Sleepwalking

A new study indicates that a surprisingly high number of us are prone to sleepwalking. Should you wake a sleepwalker?
May 17, 2012 | By Joseph Stromberg

An isolated bone shows that Cretaceous Australia had an even richer mix of predatory dinosaurs
May 17, 2012 | By Brian Switek

Catch Casablanca streaming live on Facebook tonight and read about the opportunity to view a recently restored version of one of Alfred Hitchcock's first films
May 16, 2012 | By Daniel Eagan

By sketching the movements of people at the Cleveland Art Museum, Andrew Oriani laid the groundwork for some deep insights into how art is appreciated
May 16, 2012 | By Henry Adams

"Fragments," the second of three Ai WeiWei exhibitions this year, opens at the Sackler Gallery
May 16, 2012 | By Aviva Shen

Captain Lawrence Oates wrote that if Robert Scott's team didn't win the race to the South Pole, "we shall come home with our tails between our legs." Actually, worse was in store
May 16, 2012 | By Gilbert King

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UPDATE: Betty White Visits the National Zoo

Betty White is a self-described “zoo nut.” At age 90, she balances her still-thriving ac...
By Megan Gambino

Events May 18-20: Identities in Motion, Metro Mambo, Surfboard Carving

This weekend celebrate Asian-Pacific Heritage Month, do the Mambo at the National Museum of African ...
By K. Annabelle Smith

Chuck Brown, Godfather of Go-Go, Dies at 75, But Will Live on at the Smithsonian

The guitarist and singer pioneered the genre of Go-Go and became intricately connected with DC's cul...
By Joseph Stromberg

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