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Tour the Portrait Gallery’s Hall of Presidents on Presidents’ Day

It’s Presidents’ Day—come out to the National Portrait Gallery and pay your respects to the guys who garnered us three days of discount shopping

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Dispatch from AAAS—Big Fish and other Award-Winning Stories

This weekend, fellow blogger Sarah and I are writing from the AAAS Annual Meeting in Chicago. It’s basically a greatest hits of science conference.

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Dispatch from AAAS—Origami and Objects that Cannot Exist

This weekend, blog overseer Laura and I are writing from the AAAS Annual Meeting in Chicago. The press briefing began with four scientists gazing upwards

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Dispatch from AAAS—Naming the 1000th Steve

This weekend, blog overseer Laura and I are writing from the AAAS Annual Meeting in Chicago

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Dispatch from AAAS—The Greater Sage Grouse Fembot

This weekend, blog overseer Laura and I are writing from the AAAS Annual Meeting in Chicago

How do you separate the wheat from the chaff?

Becoming a Chocolate Connoisseur

What is your definition of fine chocolate?

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Darwin Rocks

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The Sauropods of Star Wars

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Pictures of the Week—Orchids

Able to identify the orchids in these photos?

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Ornithological Data From Your Own Backyard

It’s time to fill up the birdfeeders, pull out the field guide, and polish your binocular lenses

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Darwin and the Dinosaurs

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The Year of Charles Darwin Ultimate Tour (Part 2)

Back in December, I wondered if you could plan an itinerary for the entire year in which everything you did was Darwin-related

Krantz was a true teacher in life, and his skeleton will ensure he is one in death as well.

Grover Krantz Donated His Body to Science, On One Condition…

“I’ve been a teacher all my life,” Krantz said, “and I think I might as well be a teacher after I’m dead, so why don’t I just give you my body.”

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