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July 11: Today’s Events for the Last Day of the Folklife Festival
Make the most of the last events by trying Amazonian tucupí broth, made of scalded cassava, or try your hand at the tango
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Up in the Sky! Tuskegee Airmen Plane Barnstorms Into the Smithsonian Collections
The Stearman biplane will be put on display when the museum opens on the Mall in 2015 and will remain a vivid, perpetual tribute to the Tuskegee Airmen
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Flip Nicklin, Whale Photographer Extraordinaire, Tells Tales at the Ripley Center
Flip Nicklin, one of the world’s leading whale photographers, shares stories from his career at the Ripley Center for a Smithsonian Associates event
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Cooking With Colombian Beans
There are endless variations on frijoles, and each family has its own distinctive recipe
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Quirkiest Space Shuttle Science
As the space shuttle program ends, a salute to some of its most surprising studies
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July 8: Today’s Events at the Folklife Festival
This morning, learn a thing or two about improvisation at the El Rumbiadero stage or immerse yourself in the culture of Colombia’s coffee region
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Weekend Events July 8-10: Space Shuttles, the Nationals and Assassins
Watch the last space shuttle liftoff, take part in Nationals Baseball Family Day and take a peek into the Made in Hong Kong Film Festival
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What’s the Most Dangerous Country?
Iceland is pretty much the least habitable of all the places that people have inhabited. But visiting it is like hiking through a geology textbook
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Ask Your Questions about Fossilized Colors
Just a quick note that Science magazine’s website is running a live chat this afternoon at 3:00 about new techniques to reveal color in fossils
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Weasel Coffee: You’re Going to Drink What?
I was looking forward to another great-tasting coffee experience—until I found out that “cut chon” is Vietnamese for “civet cat dung”
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Dinosaur Sighting: Grilled Triceratops
The town of Granger, Washington has a dinosaur sculpture park as well as dinosaurs adorning various vehicles around town
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The List: Top 10 Tips for Solo Travelers
When you travel alone, you discover who you are when nobody’s looking, you learn what you’re capable of, and it’s incredibly empowering
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U.S. Postal Service Honors American Designers
Twelve pioneering industrial designers, many of whom are represented in the Cooper-Hewitt’s collection, are featured on a new set of stamps
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Has a Tiny Tyrant Been Dethroned?
A 2009 discovery of a new tiny tyrant has been called into question by a recently released study
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