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This Pass Might Help Get More Toddlers Into New York City’s Museums
The Cool Culture pass helps low-income families introduce their children to cultural institutions
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A New Project Tells the Stories of the Women of Route 66
An oral history project with the National Park Service follows women on the iconic highway
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Tour de France Goes High Tech to Battle Mechanical Cheating
Organizers will use thermal cameras developed by the French nuclear agency to detect “mechanical doping” during the 2016 Tour
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Take a Peek Inside the International Center for Photography’s New Home
The Center’s newest exhibition explores what it means to be constantly in front of the lens
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Researchers Will Soon Get Their First Taste of “Martian” Vegetables
After testing them for heavy metals, the scientists will eat vegetables grown in simulated Martian soil later this week
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Explore the Netherlands’ Most Iconic Museum
The Rijksmuseum is now the best-represented institution in the Google Cultural Institute
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Sculptor’s New Show is a Riot of Color
Dale Chihuly sets out to “overwhelm with light and color” in ‘Persian Ceiling’
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After 60 Years, An Expedition Determines Highest Peaks in U.S. Arctic
Glaciologist Matt Nolan and ski mountaineer Kit DesLauriers tested a new mapping system to end uncertainty about the highest mountain in the Brooks Range
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President Obama Just Created the First National Monument to Gay Rights
The Stonewall National Monument tells the story of LGBTQ struggles in the United States
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What’s the Difference Between England, Britain and the U.K.?
Listen up, would-be Anglophiles: Here’s how never to mess up your realms, kingdoms and empires again
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A Lucky Artist Will Be Marooned on a Deserted Island
An artist-in-residence program invites applicants to consider spending a month alone in paradise
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This Library Has Books Checked Out by Hamilton and Burr
The New York Society Library was wide enough for both men
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As U.S.-Cuba Relations Warm, This Long-Dead Author Benefits
A new conservation facility is on its way to Hemingway’s home near Havana
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Mongolia Adopts Address System That Uses Three-Word Names
What3words’ geo-coding system divides the Earth’s surface into 57 trillion squares, and assigns each a unique, memorable string of names
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Check Out NASA’s Retro Mars Recruitment Posters
Farmers, teachers, surveyors and engineers will all be needed in the envisaged Mars settlement
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A New Hitch in the Plan for Building a Space Elevator
Carbon nanotubes may not be as strong as scientists once thought
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New Agreement Will Help Protect the Amazon Basin
Earth’s largest tropical rainforest just got a slew of new allies
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The Expanded Tate Modern Opens Its Doors Friday
The museum is being called the UK’s most important new cultural building since the British Library
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One Day Only: A Chance to View One Map to Rule Them All
A rare Tolkien-annotated map goes on display June 23
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This New York Project Wants You to Write on the Walls
Writing On It All gives voice—and a pen—to one and all
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