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Six Ways to Celebrate Pi Day

Today is March 14, or 3.14, the day we celebrate the mathematical constant pi (π)

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Meet Another Side of Alexander Calder at the Portrait Gallery

A new look at the artist whose avant-garde mobiles and stabiles changed and challenged notions of design and space

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Women’s History Month-Meet Artist Margarete Bagshaw

For third-generation Pueblo artist Margarete Bagshaw, the phrase may as well be “like mother, like daughter, like grand daughter.”

Chugging Maple Sap

Instead of pouring maplsyrup on pancakes, South Koreans are drinking the straight sap

An Octopus Vulgaris at the Palma Aquarium in Spain

Fourteen Fun Facts About Squid, Octopuses and Other Cephalopods

The cephalopod world is huger and more fascinating than the limited taste of the restaurant world

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Thomas Jefferson’s Bible Is Sent to the Conservation Lab

The little booklet is best known as “Thomas Jefferson’s Bible. ” But it is not a Bible like any other

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge contains vital habitat for polar bears who rely on the border of terrestrial and marine ecosystems.

Fifty Years of Arctic National Wildlife Preservation

Biologist George Schaller on the debate over ANWR conservation and why the refuge must be saved

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Tyrannosaurus Scat

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Lent in the Fast Lane

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