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Why Is Minnesota’s Recount Doomed?

Charles Seife wrote an op-ed for yesterday’s New York Times about the recount in Minnesota, which seems like it ought to be a simple problem but isn’t

Happy Repeal Day!

Cheers! Today marks the 75th anniversary of the US government changing its mind about Prohibition

Picture of the Week—Diatoms or Modern Art?

Michael Stringer of Westcliff-on-Sea, England won the 2008 Nikon Small world Photomicrography Competition earlier this year with the image below

Nutritional supplements.

Vitamins: Friend or Foe?

The truth to vitamin supplements

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Udvar-Hazy’s Six Million Dollar Day

Fundraising effort starts “Phase II” construction on the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

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Dinosaur Death Trap

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Smithsonian Says Goodbye to Odetta

A look back on the performer’s life

The Bagpiper, 1624

Couldn’t Eat Another Bite - But Why?

The reason we feel full while eating

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Primatologist’s Prison Sentence Commuted

Primatologist and Amazon adventurer Marc van Roosmalen was convicted last year in Brazil of illegal wildlife trafficking and theft of government property

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The Dinosaur Vanishes

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The Tragic Tale of the Pygmy in the Zoo

In 1904, several Pygmies were brought to live in the anthropology exhibit at the St. Louis World’s Fair

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