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Holiday Gift Guide for Film Buffs
Movies every fan should have
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Can a Picky Eater Change Her Ways?
Most expand their culinary horizons as they get older, but a few people hold fast to limited diets of familiar things like macaroni and cheese
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If any dinosaur has a tortured history, it’s the giant predator Saurophaganax
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Holiday Gift Ideas for the Adventure Traveler
A chess set, soccer ball, bear spray and other items, even dog food, make the list of gifts to give your favorite hardened traveler
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Scientists predicted that Comet Lovejoy would collide with the Sun
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Giant Automatic Highway Builders of the Future
Radebaugh’s vision of a road-creating machine may not have been a figment of just his imagination- a Disney-produced television program had a similar idea
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At the height of the sailing era, four of the world’s fastest clippers raced home with the season’s precious early cargo of tea
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Nedoceratops: To Be, or Not to Be?
Should Nedoceratops and Torosaurus be sunk into Triceratops? The debate continues, and it’s not just a bit of paleontological arcana
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So Many Gadgets, So Little Time
Innovation happens so fast now that it’s harder and harder to keep up with the pace. But is it really innovation?
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Movies that question your beliefs, from Steve Martin to Bengalese film to a nostalgic look at the old West
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Weekend Events Dec. 16-18: Happy Feet Two, All About Me in D.C., and Title Tracks Unplugged
This week, see Happy Feet Two in 3D, meet a children’s author, and enjoy an acoustic performance by a local indie frontman
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Last Minute Food-Themed Gift Ideas
Food, jewelry, toys and books for those hard-to-shop-for people on your gift list
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Some Spiders Have Brains in Their Legs
Just one more reason it’s not nice to pull the appendages off of creepy crawlies
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Tintin is Everywhere in Brussels
The famed comic book character, now a Steven Spielberg-Peter Jackson film, is a nifty way to know the Belgian capital
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Holy Zamboni! The Zoo’s Skating Rink Has No Ice
The new skating rink at the National Zoo is a high-tech innovation made of recycled acrylic
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From guarding cars to stomping around New Jersey, dinosaurs have been prominent in this week’s headlines
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A Trio of Outstanding Picture Books
Three more books to add to the Best of Childrens Books 2011 list
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A 77,000-year-old grass mattress is the earliest bed in the archaeological record. What did earlier hominids sleep on?
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From the Collections, Sound Recordings Heard for the First Time
The National Museum of American History recovers sound from recordings that have been silenced for over a century
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The Gestational Diabetes Diet: Taking Carbs from a Pregnant Lady
The last thing a pasta-loving pregnant lady with a sweet tooth wants to hear is that she should cut out carbs
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