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Red Fuji is one of Katsushika Hokusai's most famous prints.

Celebrate the Cherry Blossoms With Hokusai, the Old Man Mad About Art

Meditate on "36 Views of Mt. Fuji" by Japan's most famous artist, Katsushika Hokusai, at the Sackler Gallery March 24 through June 17

The rolling home of the future from the September, 1934 issue of Everyday Science and Mechanics

Tomorrow’s Mobile Home

Moving is a lot easier if you live inside a giant ball

How long before robots show a full range of emotions?

When Robots Get Morals

The rapid development of artificial intelligence is bringing us closer to the day when machines will be able to think for themselves

A sample elevator boot, graphic models, and the last on which it was made

How To Be Taller

A modern Scottish elevator shoe designer runs a global business from his Bangkok outpost

Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games

When Humans Are the Prey: 5 Movies That Came Before The Hunger Games

The blockbuster book adaptation isn't the first story to feature televised death matches

Framed by the springtime blooms, the Hirshhorn rocks the city.

It Happened Last Night at the Hirshhorn

In the city that sometimes sleeps, a new work of art at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is rocking the night

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The Sawfish is a Great Slasher

This ray uses its toothed rostrum not only to detect its next meal, but also to attack and impale its prey

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Symphony of Dinosaurs

A new video brings you a dinosaur documentary mash-up set to techno beats

If you figure out a way to politely turn down baijiu, China's favorite hard liquor, please let us know.

Booze Cruise: The Best Local Liquors to Try While Traveling

Fermentation has been replicated independently in nearly every region of earth, and many of the drinks various cultures brew are well worth a journey

The Topkapi Palace, Istanbul, site of the deadly race run between condemned grand viziers and their executioners.

The Ottoman Empire’s Life-or-Death Race

Custom in the Ottoman Empire mandated that a condemned grand vizier could save his neck if he won a sprint against his executioner

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Meet the Vochol

On an international tour, a Volkswagen Beetle makes a stop at the National Museum of American Indian

A stamp in honor of the National Cherry Blossom Festival

Events March 23-25: Dinner & A Movie: Skydancer, Cherry Blossom Festival Family Day, Book Signing: Jo B. Paoletti

Six generations of Mohawk Indian ironworkers have made the job their own, the cherry blossoms are out and Paoletti signs her book on color gendering

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Why Has It Been So Hard to See Margaret?

The Kenneth Lonergan film that many critics hailed as one of the best of 2011 has had a long journey to the theaters. It opens in New York tomorrow

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Meet Food “Information Artist” Douglas Gayeton

The images convey invisible or purposely obfuscated ideas related to food, explained by the experts themselves

A reconstruction of Corythosaurus at the Royal Ontario Museum

The Case of the Headless Hadrosaur

After nearly a century, a mystery is solved and a skull has been matched to its skeleton

A replica model of the 45-foot-long snake thought to be of Anaconda descent

Snake Found in Grand Central Station!

Sculptor Kevin Hockley unveils his fearsome replica of Titanoboa

Pulitzer Prize-winning scientist E.O. Wilson appears in his office at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass. Wilson, an author, biologist, and humanist made well-chronicled efforts to team with evangelical Christians to fight global warming.

What Does E.O. Wilson Mean By a "Social Conquest of the Earth"

Carl Zimmer asks the evolutionary biologist about the theories in his high-profile new book

Casanova's spirit is everywhere in the Czech capital city of Prague.

Europe

When Casanova Met Mozart

The world's most notorious lover lived in Prague at the same time as the composer, but the mystery remains: did they collaborate on a famous opera?

Louis Basque Corner is one of the rare restaurants in Nevada that serves Basque cuisine

Your Guide to Basquing in the Old West

What are the best restaurants for authentic Basque cuisine?

Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel's expertise in the realm of neuroscience is unsurpassed.

Austria

The Art and Science of Embarrassing Art

Neuroscientist and Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel explores the flourishing of culture in Vienna

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