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Smithsonian Magazine Which Sesame Street character from around the world is your favorite?

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Over the course of the 40 years that the program has been on the air, Sesame Street has spawned versions in countries around the world
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One of the oldest archaeological sites not on a heritage list, this Pacific state, like Easter Island, is an engineering marvel
Mary
Mary
COOL!!
Yesterday at 7:31am
Sandra Petree
Sandra Petree
Oh wow. A very interesting place to visit, I am sure.
Yesterday at 10:25pm
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The FlexStraw owes its existence to Joseph B. Friedman, (1900 - 1982) an independent American inventor, who came up with numerous interesting ideas that never really succeeded in the marketing world
Valerie Wilkinson
Valerie Wilkinson
I love bendy straws!
Yesterday at 3:15am
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early on in the discussion Sereno puzzled over why Darwin neglected many fossils, and dinosaurs in particular, in his most famous book
Vanessa Cox
Vanessa Cox
Darwin only did it cuz Russell Wallace was about to... To much credit is given to Darwin when he wasn't the only one thinking it at the time, he just published first.
Thu at 2:27pm
Tara Broadway
Tara Broadway
Because big dinos couldn't evolve they died out.
Thu at 3:37pm
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It's a sad day at the National Zoo. Merlin, the National Zoo's 27-year-old sloth bear, died this morning after a 48-hour illness.
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Since Darwin's time, scientists have puzzled over his wolf-like canid, now known as the Falklands wolf
Gabrielle Redican Carey
Gabrielle Redican Carey
Saw a red fox in San Antonio TX a week ago...Yay for species resilience!
Wed at 5:39pm
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New species are born in the turbulence of the Congo River
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Smithsonian Magazine Have you ever tried eating the tops of your carrots?

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Last weekend, I picked up some beautiful carrots—the kind that Bugs Bunny would drool over; classic orange cones topped with plumes of greenery—at an organic farmstand.
Janie
Janie
EAT ORANGE PEELS. Good for Karma.
Wed at 11:35am
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The presence of the rooster's wattle has long been a puzzle because it seems to serve no purpose.
Linda Kelly Flunker
Linda Kelly Flunker
I really found this interesting since my educational background is with poultry. If you take a second and think about it, it makes since that you gotta get the girl to look at you first if she's to see the things that tell her you're a keeper.
November 3 at 12:15pm
Janie
Janie
This picture reminds me of my step-grandmother. Im not sure if she had a history with poultry; but its possible.
November 3 at 1:11pm
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The National Zoo's Conservation Research Center in Front Royal, Virginia, received a grant to create the first ever captive population of the endangered Virginia big-eared bat.
Smita Nayak
Smita Nayak
save them....let's begin an awareness campaign
November 3 at 7:14am
Brooke
Brooke
Very good idea. This may be the only way to save the species.
November 3 at 12:42pm
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Smithsonian Magazine Who is your favorite documentary filmmaker?

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For 50 years, John Marshall documented one of Africa's last remaining hunter- gatherer tribes in more than 700 hours of film footage
Barbara Reifschneider
Barbara Reifschneider
I agree with Matt Macieski.mThere are documentary filmmakers who do not bring their personal agendas to the viewer.
November 3 at 6:40am
Barbara Reifschneider
Barbara Reifschneider
Such as Ken Burns who is a master in documentary filming.
November 3 at 6:46am
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Scientist-turned-filmmaker Randy Olson says that academics must be more like Hollywood in how they share their love for science
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Smithsonian Magazine At what age did you stop going trick-or-treating?

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The custom of trick-or-treating may have Celtic origins, related to the pagan celebration of Samhain, which marked the end of the harvest and the threshold of a new season
Gabrielle Redican Carey
Gabrielle Redican Carey
Somewhere around 12 y.o. going trick or treating became going out to find marauding boys armed with shaving cream and eggs....much more scary!
November 1 at 6:18am
Colleen Keyes
Colleen Keyes
In 1966 at the "unlucky" age of 13 :-( My best friend and I dressed up as scarecrows, using green crepe paper cut in a fringe for the hair. After several stern looks and a "Aren't you girls a bit old for this?" we trudged home with only green-dyed lips and teeth (it was bit drizzly that night) to show for our efforts...
November 1 at 8:22am
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Smithsonian Magazine What are you dressing up as for Halloween?

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And if you’ve been invited to a Halloween party and are still searching for a costume with just the right flare, look no further than the Smithsonian. The collection is stocked with creative crunch-time costumes for your trick-or-treating convenience
Rayna Bennett- Beasley
Rayna Bennett- Beasley
Click on my pic. Dog the bounty hunter his wife Beth and son Leland.. That is what we were.
October 31 at 7:08pm
Caroline Curtis
Caroline Curtis
me! it is very scary!!!!
November 2 at 8:32am
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One town's strange journey from paranoia to pardon
Lon
Lon
well, whoever is responsible for Salem cigarettes must certainly be a witch or at least some other slave of Satan. <gg>
October 30 at 10:25pm