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• Weekend Events: Celebrate American Indian Heritage, Astronaut Art, and Sesame Street’s 40th Birthday!

  
  Around The Mall — Authority: 131
  Portrait of an American Indian (ca. 1900). Artist unknown. Image courtesy of the American Art Museum. Friday, November 13: Vice Adm. Donald D. Engen Flight Jacket Night: A Conversation with Alan Bean On November 19th, 1969,  Alan Bean became the fourth man to set foot on the Moon during the second lunar landing ...
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• Construction Underway: Arts and Industries Building Gets a Little Love

  
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  Work is underway at the Arts and Industries Building, closed to the public since 2004. Photograph by Brendan McCabe I remember well the first day I came to work at Smithsonian magazine 24 years ago. The offices then were located in the Arts and Industries Building, or the A&I, our affectionate acronym for that ...
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• Yinka Shonibare, An Artist Turned Professor

  
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  London-born, Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibares work is on view at the African Art Museum. Photo by Charlotte Player The past is prologue. And in the hands of the 47-year-old Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare, history makes for rich fodder in the iconography of his sumptuous sculptural tableaux, curious films, richly ...
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• Smithsonian’s Johnson Imax Theater Offers Free Admission to “Wild Ocean 3D” for Recycled Cell Phones

  
  Big Movie Zone Blog — Authority: 141
  The Johnson Imax Theater at the National Museum of Natural History has joined Nokia in an environmental initiative that provides free movie admission to visitors in exchange for their old mobile phones. From Nov. 15 through Nov. 22, guests who present a cell phone for recycling at the theater’s box offices will ...
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• National Mall, a Finalist for a Google Trike Visit

  
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  The National Mall is on a short list of places that may be photographed by the Google Trike. Photo courtesy of flickr user yufujamar. At the end of last month, the ATM blog initiated a campaign to have the Google Trike come to the National Mall. Google had invited the public to nominate trails, university ...
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• Catching Up With Danilo Pérez

  
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  Jazz pianist Danilo Pérez / Image courtesy of Danilo Pérez Last month, celebrated contemporary jazz pianist and bandleader Danilo Pérez received a Legacy Award from the Smithsonian Latino Center. Not familiar with those? The awards are designed to recognize individuals of Latin heritage who have made “a ...
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• Celebrating 40 Years of Life On Sesame Street

  
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  Big Bird, featured on a postage stamp. Image courtesy of the Postal Museum. It’s almost impossible for me to imagine my childhood without public television— Sesame Street which turns 40 this week and is the kind of program that can still chase the clouds away. Of course when I was tuning in, the cult of Elmo ...
  6 days ago

• Black Indians at Smithsonian

  
  American Red Tory — Authority: 107
  Specifically, the National Museum of the American Indian .  Fascinating, maddening, enlightening, racist and anti-racist, historical and anti-historical discussion among the Comments, too! Here’s the exhibit’s website . Speaking as a controverted Nanticoke (who doesn’t qualify for Indian Assn. membership at ...
  1 week ago

• Sweatin’ to the Smithsonian: Exercise With Folkways

  
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  Aerobics for Everyone (1982). Image courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways. Autumn is upon us, which means we must once again turn our thoughts to the Halloween/Thanksgiving/Christmas triumvirate of culinary evil. No matter how much goodwill you show to your friends, family and neighbors, it won’t save your waistline ...
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• Buildings of the The National Mall

  
  Kathika Travel Website — Authority: 138
  The National Mall is especially these days as the location where the massive crowd formed to see the inauguration of President Barrack Obama.  Over forty years ago, it was famous for a similar occasion when people gathered there to hear Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech.  The mall is also home to a ...
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• The Coolest Straw I Ever Saw at American History

  
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  The ease of positioning the Flex-Straw made it appealing for hospital use. Joseph B. Friedman Papers, NMAH Archives Center They are everywhere. Those quirky, bendy straws that make the satisfying crunching sound when flexed. They are in every soft drink, every restaurant… even when we don’t ask for them, those ...
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• New Insights Into What Drives the Universe

  
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  The VERITAS telescope is located at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory near Amado, Arizona. Image courtesy of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Shooting through space with the greatest of ease, cosmic rays can careen through the universe at nearly the speed of light. (Cosmic ray is a bit of a ...
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• Go Waggaloo Children’s CD – Sarah Lee Guthrie & Family – Review and Giveaway

  
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  Smithsonian Folkways Traditional Folk with Subtle Uses of Modern Technology Both my husband and I are Baby Boomers.  Occasionally our taste in music differs, but for the most part, we enjoy the same type of music.  We grew up with folk music, rock n’ roll, and hard rock. As young parents, we tried to ...
  2 weeks ago

• NOAA and Smithsonian Project to Improve Chesapeake and Delaware Bays’ Nearshore Habitat Management

  
  Chesapeake Bay News — Authority: 120
  NOAA has awarded the Smithsonian Institution’s Environmental Research Center and several partner organizations $946,000 for the first year of an anticipated five-year, $5 million collaborative project to study the degradation of nearshore coastal habitats in the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays. Research will be used by ...
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• Last Minute Halloween Costumes with a Smithsonian Twist

  
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  As the final days of the month draw near, that sugar-seeking holiday is upon us again; the holiday when we indulge our inner monster and make recreation of  horrifying our friends. Now is the season for zombie couture, anything goes so long as it’s bloody, gross, funny or edgy. And if you’ve been invited to a ...
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• The Haunting Continues: Bats Die of Mysterious Disease

  
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  This little brown bat caught in October 2008 in New York exhibits the telling sign of the mysterious white nose syndrome: a white fungus around the nose. Photo by Ryan von Linden/New York Department of Environmental Conservation. Three years ago in a cave near Albany, N.Y., a caver photographed hibernating bats with ...
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• The Haunting Begins: Giant Spider Discovered In Time for Halloween

  
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  A small male spider of a closely related Nephila species lies on top of the giant female showing the extreme difference in size. (Look closely, the male is the light brown thing to the left.) Photo by M. Kuntner. The largest-ever orb-weaving spider has been discovered by researchers in a remote park in South Africa. ...
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• Scientists Use 100-Year-Old DNA to Validate Species

  
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  A painting by Jon Fjeldsa depicts H. zusii with its close relatives. (Clockwise from top left: Aglaiocercus kingi, Aglaiocercus coelestis, H. Zusii and Taphrolesbia griseiventris) Scientists, including the Smithsonian’s Gary Graves, recently used nearly microscopic fragments of tissue to identify a presumably ...
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• Necklace Of The Spanish Inquisition

  
  Random Stuff By Paul — Authority: 134
  One does not normally associate beautiful jewelry with the time of the Spanish Inquisition. But in the Smithsonian Institution’s collection of gems, there is an exquisite necklace holder stand and a necklace badge holder of diamonds and emeralds. It is an incredible double row of diamonds and emeralds finishing ...
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• MFA Updates

  
  Curator's Corner — Authority: 434
  Jen Bandini , MFA UGA 07, is a finalist in a juried exhibition in the Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery, with the work pictured above, and has a chance to win the peoples choice award. If you like her work, vote for her! If she wins, they may ask you to comment on her work. Bandini also blogs semi-regularly ...
  2 weeks ago

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