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Every Two Years, Staffers at the Met Get to See Their Own Art on the Prestigious Museum’s Walls
The museum has been staging exhibitions featuring employee art since 1935. This year's show is only the second in history ...
Smithsonian Magazine2h
A Man Noticed a Strange Shape on the Ground on Google Earth. It Turned Out to Be the Mark of an Undetected Tornado
Geoscientists in Australia suggest a strong tornado swept across the Nullarbor Plain in November 2022 and made the ...
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These Endangered Wolves Have a Sweet Tooth—and It Might Make Them Rare Carnivorous Pollinators
Ethiopian wolves like to lick up the flower nectar of red hot poker plants, and researchers have caught the behavior on camera ...
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To Bridge Heritage and Science, the Smithsonian’s Inclusive Education Programs Empower Learners Through Culture and Community
Through Indigenous weaving workshops and environmental science projects, the Smithsonian engages in co-learning projects to ...
Smithsonian Magazine4h
Archaeologist Discovers Two Neolithic Stone Circles in England, Supporting a ‘Sacred Arc’ Theory
The idea suggests prehistoric people built a ring of stone circles in modern-day Dartmoor National Park around the same time ...
Smithsonian Magazine5h
Mysterious, Repetitive ‘Quacking’ Noise in the Southern Ocean May Have Been a Conversation Between Whales
During a 1982 experiment, researchers recorded the unusual sound, termed “bio-duck.” Now, a researcher suggests they may have ...
Smithsonian Magazine5h
Keith Haring Created These Striking Subway Drawings While Waiting for Trains on His Way to Work
The artist used white chalk to draw on blank advertising panels inside subway stations. Now, 31 surviving examples of these ...
Smithsonian Magazine6h
Vandals Destroy Ebenezer Scrooge’s Fictional Tombstone Featured in a Film Adaptation of ‘A Christmas Carol’
Located in an English churchyard, the stone was inscribed with the name "Ebenezer Scrooge" for the 1984 movie. Police are ...
Smithsonian Magazine9h
Where Do Butterflies Migrate From? Clues Can Be Found in Pollen on Their Bodies
Trillions of insects move around the globe each year. Scientists are working on new ways to map those long-distance journeys ...
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Harvey Milk, One of the World’s First Openly Gay Politicians, Was Assassinated on This Day in 1978
With tears in her eyes on the morning of November 27, 1978, Dianne Feinstein stepped in front of a gathering of San Francisco ...
Smithsonian Magazine2d
The Hero Who Convinced His Fellow Ornithologists of the Obvious: Stop Shooting Rare Birds and Watch Them Instead
Too late to save the ivory-billed woodpecker, Arthur Allen changed science forever with his seemingly simple idea Tim Gallagher Two ivory-billed woodpeckers in one of the historic photographs that ...
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The Hidden History of Bermuda Is Reshaping the Way We Think About Colonial America
New archaeological finds on the islands have revealed secrets about one of Britain’s first settlements in the Americas—and the surprising ways it changed the New World By Andrew Lawler ...