music Play Morissey and PETA's new anti-meat mobile game David Pescovitz

History Aviation museums' "most wanted list" of cool aerospace artifacts lost to history David Pescovitz

animals Panda cub! The best of the National Zoo's panda cam videos as picked by the curators and panda keeper David Pescovitz

smithsonian The origin story of that all-American toy, Slip 'N Slide Andrea James

statues There are 43 giant stone Presidential heads crumbling in a field in Virginia Thom Dunn

youtube 'Aerial America' series is now on YouTube Andrea James

racism The US Department of Justice was originally created to tackle white supremacy Thom Dunn

photography Sixth great-grandson of Thomas Jefferson re-creates his presidential portrait Rusty Blazenhoff

art Thomas Jefferson portrait recreated with distant descendant Rob Beschizza

Kids Online course shows young artists how to make portraits in Kehinde Wiley's style Andrea James

Science NASA delivers first grant in 30 years to support the search for extraterrestrial intelligence David Pescovitz

t-shirts When 8-year-olds redesign famous band tees Thom Dunn

books Do libraries fumigate books to disinfect them? David Pescovitz

History Tony Hawk's first skateboard is now in the Smithsonian David Pescovitz

music Nearly 1000 Peel Sessions now available online Gareth Branwyn

crossword puzzles New crossword puzzle series by Smithsonian Magazine Carla Sinclair

music On the 50th anniversary of Kent State Massacre, listen to the Isley Brothers' "Ohio" David Pescovitz

History This unlucky fellow was the first person to have been killed by a meteorite in recorded history David Pescovitz

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