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Hands-on activities, online exhibits, articles, videos, and more, all about culture.

Girls of Summer

In the 1870s, an American woman could not vote. She could not own property in her own name after marriage. But she could play ball. . .

ARTICLE

Canoe Tour

Take a virtual tour of a traditional Polynesian voyaging canoe.

INTERACTIVE

Make Your Own Petroglyph

Try your hand at explaining symbols both modern and ancient, and then make your own.

HANDS-ON

Subzero Gardening

Tour a hydroponic greenhouse in frozen Antarctica.

VIDEO

Tracing Fossil Finds : A Hominid Timeline

Explore a timeline of homind fossils.

PHOTO ESSAY

The Great American Pastime: BBQ

See video tips from a grilling guru on how to serve up the best barbeque.

VIDEO

Cultivating Competiton

An inside look at the striving communities of competetive orchid and pumpkin growers.

VIDEO

my Evidence

Why do you believe what you believe?

INTERACTIVE

Take the Beat Back

Uncover the everyday origins of some extraordinary instruments.

INTERACTIVE

Take Me Out to the Besuboru Game

Why is baseball so popular in Japan?

ARTICLE

Sharing Findings: The Anatomy of a Peer-Reviewed Paper

Explore the elements of a scientific paper.

PHOTO ESSAY

How Old Is It? Dating at Chaco Canyon

How do scientists establish the age of artifacts, rocks, and settlements?

ARTICLE

Any Little Patch of Dirt

A trash-filled median blossoms into a community oasis.

VIDEO

Breaking the Mayan Code

Learn to count like the Maya by studying one of their ancient stone documents.

HANDS-ON

Stepping

Stepping is rhythmic movement that uses the body as an instrument.

VIDEO

Remembering Loma Prieta

Read stories and see footage from the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.

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Driven: True Stories of Inspiration

How are creative investigations sparked? What does a state of inspiration feel like? Can inspiration be transmitted from person to person? Join us for an audio slideshow series that explores the fascinating world of how we work creatively.

Never Lost: Polynesian Navigation

Imagine yourself in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean. You've been sailing for weeks, and there's no land in sight. Do you know where you are? Do you know which way to go?

Doctor Atomic: Commentary on an Opera

Explore the scientific, historical, and cultural context behind a new opera about the first atomic bomb test.

Revealing Bodies

How has imagery changed the way we look at our bodies—over time and in different cultures?

Visiting CERN

Explore the history, people, and landscape of this research facility and the scientific and cultural ideas that emerge.

Chaco Canyon

Come with us to Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico, which is rich with thousand-year-old artifacts of the ancient Pueblo culture and contains sites that appear to have been astronomical observatories.

Remembering Nagasaki

In Observance of the 50th Anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

China Eclipse Dispatches 2008

Follow us in the remote Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwestern China near the Mongolian border.

Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know?

For most of us, science arrives in our lives packaged neatly as fact. But how did it get that way?

Exploring Paper

Learn about origami, make your own paper, and find out the best way to fold a paper airplane.

Ancient Writings Revealed

Watch ancient text revealed and read for the first time in a thousand years!

Panama Pacific International Exposition In 3-D

Couldn't get to the Panama Pacific International Exposition in 1915? Go now in 3-D!

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