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• The Design Future of New York as Seen by Urbanist Michael Sorkin

  
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  Detail from the cover of All Over the Map: Writings on Buildings and Cities, 2011. Published by Verso. Copyright Michael Sorkin Studio. Only Michael Sorkin, urban theorist and architect, could write an entire book about his 20-minute walk to work and turn it into an engaging meditation on city life and ...
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• Georgetowns Jim Coury wins $100,000 Jeopardy College Championship

  
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  He had to keep it under wraps for six weeks, but on Friday Jim Coury finally revealed his big news: The Georgetown sophomore won Jeopardys annual college tournament , taking home the $100,000 grand prize. "It was extremely difficult to keep the secret," he told us. Read full article >>       ...
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• Temporary Wartime Buildings on the Mall as Viewed from the Washington Monument

  
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  This is a view from the top of the Washington Monument, sometime late in 1940s. You’ll see old temporary buildings occupying the current site of the Museum of American History. Aerial view from the Washington Monument showing the “Tempos” or temporary buildings before their demolition. They were located on ...
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• What the Great Gatsby Got Right about the Jazz Age

  
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  Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald and F. Scott Fitzgerald by Harrison Fisher, 1927; Conté crayon on paperboard; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Fitzgerald’s daughter, Mrs. Scottie Smith Amy Henderson, curator at the National Portrait Gallery, writes about all things pop culture. Her last post ...
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• The Great(est) Gatsby Playlist

  
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  Carey Mulligan as Daisy. Photo by Courtesy of Warner Bros. Picture – © 2013 Bazmark Film III Pty Limited The drinks were freer, the music brassier and the times, well, Gatsby-er. At least, that’s the picture F. Scott Fitzgerald creates with his tales of high society run wild in his 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby ...
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• Events May 10-12: Plant Potting, Super Science Saturday and a Musical Tribute to Mother’s Day

  
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  Smithsonian’s annual Garden Fest will be held in the Enid A. Haupt Garden on Tuesday. Come learn about composting and worm farming! Photo by Kevin H., courtesy of Flickr Creative Commons Friday, May 10: Garden Fest How do you relate to the earth? In the garden outside of Smithsonian’s Castle, three African ...
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• The Best of Design, Cooper-Hewitt Announces 2013 Award Winners

  
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  Part of the portfolio for this year’s Lifetime Achievement award winner: Ross’s Landing Park and Plaza entrance bridge, Chattanooga, TN, 1992. Architecture: SITE (James Wines, Alison Sky, Michelle Stone, Joshua Weinstein). Engineers: Hensley-Schmidt. Construction: Soloff Construction Company. Photo: SITE ...
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• How Does Science Help Pandas Make More Panda Babies?

  
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  The National Zoo’s two giant pandas don’t know how to mate with each other. But thanks to artificial insemination Mei Xiang (L) and Tian Tian (R) have produced two cubs, and a third may be on the way. Photo courtesy of the National Zoo The National Zoo’s two giant pandas have little interest in each other 11 ...
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• Hawaiian Musician Dennis Kamakahi Donates His Guitar

  
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  Rev. Dennis Kamakahi performs at the 2012 Na Hoku Hanohano Awards. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Joann Stevens, of the American History Museum, is the program manager of Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM). She last wrote about Darius Brubeck . With his quiet dignity and self-assurance, leadership becomes Slack ...
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• A Hindenburg Passenger Ticket, Possibly the Only One to Still Exist, Goes On View

  
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  The Hindenburg disaster was captured on camera and in eye-witness accounts. Courtesy of the US Navy “None of us know the Lord’s will,” Burtis J. “Bert” Dolan wrote to his wife about his journey on the new airship, the Hindenburg . He had purchased his ticket for the trip on May 1, 1937, two days before ...
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• Events May 7-9: Finding Our Way, a Quinoa Celebreation and String Quartets

  
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  In celebration of Bolivia’s culture, the American Indian Museum is holding a quinoa festival this week. Photo by edibleoffice, courtesy of Flickr Creative Commons Tuesday, May 7: Time and Navigation Sea captains once relied on chronometers to calculate where they were. Today, we use satellites, and anyone can ...
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• Breaking News: Bozie the Elephant to Join National Zoo

  
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  Bozie will go into quarantine for a minimum of 30 days upon her arrival at the National Zoo, per standard procedure. An expert team of elephant keepers, nutritionists and veterinarians will care for her. Following quarantine, Zoo staff will begin the process of introducing her to females Ambika and Shanthi and male ...
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• From the Civil War to Civil Rights: The Many Ways Asian Americans Have Shaped the Country

  
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  When Chinese American Vincent Chin was beaten to death by two autoworkers in 1982 during a time of growing resentment toward Japan’s auto industry, the incident became a rallying point for Asian Pacific American communities. Photograph by Corky Lee When Christopher Columbus set off across the Atlantic in search of ...
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• Events May 3-5: American Civil Rights, Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and Interactive Robot Games

  
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  On Friday, take a tour of “Changing America,” an exhibition that tells the story of America’s push towards racial equality from the Emancipation Proclamation to the Civil Rights Movement. Photo by Cocoabiscuit, courtesy of Flickr Creative Commons Friday, May 3: Exhibition Tour: Changing America This year ...
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• How Do You Build a 12-Ton Sculpture Installation? Very Slowly

  
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  View of Xu Bing’s Phoneix models in transit. Photo by John Tsantes When you go to the museum for a show, what you see is the final product: a painting, a photograph, an installation. But now at the Sackler, you can see the process behind the product in the new exhibit “ Nine Deaths, Two Births: Xu Bing’s ...
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• Events April 30-May 2: Origins of the Renaissance, Native Crafts and History Reanimated

  
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  Kota Ezawa recreates famous moments in history and pop culture with basic animation software. He is visiting the Hirshhorn on Thursday to talk about his art. Photo by Independent Curators International, courtesy of Flickr Creative Commons Tuesday, April 30: Did an Emperor Kick-Start the Renaissance? Most of the ...
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• Got a second? Time & Navigation exhibit at the Smithsonian

  
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  The National Air & Space Museum and the National Museum of American History have joined forces to create a new permanent exhibition at the Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C. called Time and Navigation : The Untold Story of Getting from Here to There. Wiley Post’s Winnie Mae circled the globe two ...
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• Discs reveal phone pioneer’s voice

  
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  The voice of Alexander Graham Bell has been identified for the first time, in a recording from 1885. On the wax-disc recording, the telephone inventor says: “Hear my voice, Alexander Graham Bell.” The recording is among the earliest held by the Smithsonian Institution, which runs the National Museum of American ...
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• The life of a nation is told by the lives of its people…

  
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  By Gemma Barratt America has a rich and diverse history which shows itself in its music, politics, film, and culture. The power of biography helps to illuminate larger questions of war, peace, and justice and in exploring the lives of the figures that helped shape America’s history we can discover more about our ...
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• 24 Craft Creations That’ll Inspire You To Think Outside the Box

  
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  When you go to an exhibition, do you ever wish you could take some of the art home with you? Well, once a year, you can with the Smithsonian’s Craft Show organized by the Women’s Committee. The juried show is part exhibit, part sale, with proceeds benefiting the Institution. The show runs April 25 to 28 at the ...
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