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Imagining a City of Treelike Buildings
Amid growing concerns that skyscrapers were blocking sunlight for people on the ground, a British architect proposed a novel solution
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Smithsonian paleontologist Matthew Carrano explains how to identify dinosaurs from isolated teeth
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When the Country’s Founding Father Is Your Founding Father
The descendants of American presidents are the athletic trainers, lawyers, salesmen and executives of everyday life
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The Race For an Alzheimer’s Miracle
Researchers have made a flurry of discoveries related to memory loss recently. But will they really help us find a way to keep brains from shutting down?
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President Obama to Speak At Groundbreaking for African American History and Culture Museum
The groundbreaking ceremony for the Smithsonian’s newest museum, scheduled to open in 2015, will feature Obama, Laura Bush and others
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The Mysterious Mr. Zedzed: The Wickedest Man in the World
Sir Basil Zaharoff was the archetypal “merchant of death”—an arms salesman who made a career out of selling to both sides in a conflict
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The Best and Worst of Canarian Food
There are two delicacies unique to the Canary Islands that every visitor should try at least once—and in the case of one of them, once is quite enough
Cyclists in New Zealand see these handmade, unguarded food stalls in the distance, advertising some product of the homestead
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Scientists Move Closer to Creating an Invisibility Cloak
As far as the microwaves were concerned, the 7-inch-long tube did not exist — is true invisibility that far away?
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Even the world’s most formidable consumers eventually became food themselves
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2012 Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts: A Cheat Sheet
Which are the best shorts to watch and which one will take home the award next weekend?
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There are reasons to be very positive about this result, but also reasons to be very cautious
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Archivist Michael Pahn Free Associates Among the Smithsonian’s Music and Film Collections
On a search through the Smithsonian archives, Pahn follows one tradition after another to find that music is the connective thread that binds many cultures
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A reader spots what may be the wrinkliest dinosaur of all time
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Newlyweds who didn’t want to visit the cliched destination of the time, Niagara Falls, dreamt of one day spending their first days as a couple on the moon
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Nothing Out of the Ordinary: Squirrel Stewed, 1878
A collection of old community cookbooks reflects a changing ecology and a cultural shift: the decline of hunting, chitlins and pig’s feet
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The Best Science Visualizations of the Year
Browse through the winning images that turn scientific exploration into art
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Anti-Gravity Machine for Levitating Fruit Flies
A powerful magnetic field counteracted Earth’s gravity and disrupted gene expression during development
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Traveling does seem to facilitate encounters—especially between like-minded people searching for similar things
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