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Opening Jim Thorpe's Wheaties (3:02)

A Multimedia Spectacle at the Hirshhorn (2:53)

How Many Beads Can You Glue to the Outside of a VW Beetle? (2:16)

The Art of Video Games (3:55)

Introducing Ask Smithsonian (1:15)

The Groundbreaking for the National Museum of African American History and Culture (2:36)

The Portraits of Thomas Jefferson (2:56)

A Brief History of the Jefferson Bible (3:25)

The Hirshhorn Transforms for After Hours (2:19)

Andy Warhol's Headlines (2:31)

Civil War Ballooning (3:05)

A Look Inside the Peacock Room (1:56)

Video Recap of the 2012 American Ingenuity Awards Dinner (3:37)

Benh Zeitlin and the Beasts of the Southern Wild (1:31)

Esperanza Spalding's New Take on Jazz (1:28)

An Explosive Event with Cai Guo-Qiang (1:50)

Watch the Trailer for Beasts of the Southern Wild (2:06)

Esperanza Spalding: 2012 Smithsonian American Ingenuity Awards (1:40)

The Secret to Making Food Look Irresistible on Television (6:40)

The History of Coffee Culture in America (4:05)

Red Hot Kathleen Turner Discusses Molly Ivins (8:01)

Recreating the Discovery Space Shuttle Fly-over With Cans (2:48)

How does Liu Bolin Make Himself Invisible? (2:46)

Los Texmaniacs perform "Por una mujer casada" (3:12)

The Secret Plot to Kill Lincoln (4:26)

Behind the Scenes of a Historic Photo Shoot (3:05)

Anne Kelly Knowles Uses GIS Tools to Re-Write History (1:51)

Anne Kelly Knowles: 2012 Smithsonian American Ingenuity Awards (1:32)

How One Soccer Team Defeated the Nazis (20:04)

Karen King on the Meaning of Her Discovery (2:29)

Remembering the Dark Days of the Cuban Missile Crisis (3:09)

The History of April Fools Day (2:21)

Historic Newsreel Footage of the Cuban Missile Crisis (6:04)

Decoding the National Cryptologic Museum (2:34)

Thomas Edison's Boxing Cats (:23)

The History of Keeping Time (3:48)

Ray: A Life Underwater (14:35)

A Walk in the Park (2:50)

Born Into Coal (7:51)

Around the World in a Snow Globe (3:28)

Bryan Stevenson: The Legal Crusader (1:52)

Dr. NakaMats: Patently Strange (8:14)

Bryan Stevenson: 2012 Smithsonian American Ingenuity Awards (1:27)

Bryan Stevenson on the Injustices in America (24:11)

Sebastian Thrun: 2012 Smithsonian American Ingenuity Awards (1:30)

How the Clean Cookstove Changes Lives (3:28)

Watch the Trailer for The Invention of Dr. Nakamats (4:06)

Hot Air Balloons Light Up The Sky (:59)

The Science of Love (2:54)

This Is How Your Brain Works (4:41)

Apollo 16 Lunar Dash Cam (1:30)

Using the Sun to Make Music (10:44)

We Were All Female Once (1:50)

Decoding Immortality (2:48)

Climate Change 101 With Bill Nye the Science Guy (4:33)

The Science of Santa Claus (1:24)

Video Recap of the 2012 American Ingenuity Awards Dinner (3:37)

Designer Creates Wind-Powered Land Mine Detonator (3:23)

Pardis Sabeti's New Look at Infectious Disease (1:41)

Jack Andraka's Pancreatic Cancer Breakthrough (1:31)

All 39 Birds-of-Paradise Species Captured on Film for the First Time (4:15)

Swim With The Whales (3:04)

A Bird Ballet (2:32)

Bees in Slow Motion and Ultra HD (3:48)

Timelapse: Spider Making a Web (1:01)

Caring for Orphaned Walruses (2:26)

A Gorilla Family in the Wild (1:02)

First Glimpse of the National Zoo's Panda Cub (:33)

Epic Hermit Crab Migration Captured on Film (4:11)

Fishing for Sharks From a Blimp (:57)

The Jersey Shore Shark Attack (2:45)

The Real Story of Jaws (2:42)

Decoding Immortality (2:48)

What Jurassic Park Got Wrong About Raptors (2:58)

Rovers Raise the Bar (1:31)

The ArtCar Fest (1:11)

The Mystery of the Hope Diamond (1:25)

Elephant Training Games (1:39)