http://www.yourstreet.com/news/smithsonian YourStreet collects the latest local news and information from around the web. Find out what's going on in your town. en-us From Solar Nation : With the Solar Decathlon only a couple of days away, Solar Nation brings you the first of a series of eyewitness reports from the solar village on the National Mall in Washington DC.  Today, we look at an unusually-shaped entry from Cornell... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6739657/solar-decathlon-build-out-gathers-pace Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:33:08 -0700 Thanks to a reader for sending this great find from the Smithsonian Web site. You can even listen to the songs here. Awesome. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6733688/bonus-ridiculously-awesome-album-cover-of-the-week-reader-submitted- Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:30:08 -0700 Penguins and dinosaurs, together at last! The former are photographed by Joan Myers in the traveling Smithsonian show Wondrous Cold: An Antarctic Journey, and the latter are represented by fossils that UW researchers have added to the exhibition. Myers actually... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6736121/wondrous-cold Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:00:08 -0700 Yes, it is the weekend after Labor Day, and that means that your Classical Music Agenda has come back from its summer hiatus, tanned, rested, and ready. The classical music season is not yet fully under way -- but some good music is waiting to be heard, including... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6715782/classical-music-agenda Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:58:08 -0700 SIOUX CITY -- The Milwaukee Railroad Shops Historic District in the north Riverside neighborhood of Sioux City will participate Sept. 26 in the fifth annual Museum Day presented by Smithsonian Magazine. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6714230/historic-railroad-district-participates-in-museum-day Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:23:08 -0700 SIOUX CITY -- The Milwaukee Railroad Shops Historic District, located in the north Riverside neighborhood of Sioux City, will participate Sept. 26 in the fifth annual Museum Day presented by Smithsonian Magazine. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6708235/milwaukee-shops-to-participate-in-museum-day Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:08:08 -0700 Since yesterday was the last day for summer hours at many of the Smithsonian's museums, I decided to race down and take advantage of them. Although I've been going since I was a kid, I just can never get enough of the museums - which are all free, mind you. And I got... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6698707/baltimore-snacker-from-lebanese-to-japanese-labor-day-in-dc Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:43:08 -0700 shannon said... LONDON, England (CNN) -- Scientists have discovered a new species of giant rat in a remote rainforest in Papua New Guinea. The newly discovered rat is similar in size and weight to this one found by scientists in 2007. The newly discovered rat is... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6697991/new-giant-rat Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:38:08 -0700 56 Innovative Works of Art to be on Display at Union Station Conversation will go way beyond politics this fall as the Red Bull Art of Can exhibit showcases a wide variety of art made from recycled materials, October 8-19 at Union Station. The Red Bull Art of Can... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6693062/washington-dc-celebrates-the-pop-art-movement-at-red-bull-ar- Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:25:08 -0700 Wayne Clough pulls a thumb-sized computer flash drive from his pocket and marvels at how many of the Smithsonian Institution's millions of objects can be captured on it. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6680658/after-first-year,-smithsonian-chief-has-big-ideas Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:59:08 -0700 The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, as you probably know, is the home of the infamous Hope Diamond.  This huge, beautiful  blue diamond came into the museum’s possession in 1958, after it was donated by Harry Winston, Inc.  It’s... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6673964/hope-diamond-gets-a-facelift Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:26:08 -0700 Photo by Jonas Bendiksen, Courtesy National Building Museum >> In 2008, for the first time in human history, more people lived in cities than in rural areas. One-third of these urban dwellers—more than one billion people—resided in slums. The National... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6673978/september-museum-roundup Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:53:08 -0700 The Hope Diamond is going bare to celebrate a half-century at the Smithsonian. SEE IT AND VOTE ON YOUR FAVORITE! http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6670031/hope-diamond-gets-new-setting-see-it-vote-for-fav Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:55:08 -0700 With just a click, http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/students/index.html you and your family can tour the Smithsonian. There are three wonderful sections: Educators, Families and Students. In the Student section you can explore by topic: Everything Art, Science... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6642797/smithsonian-101-a-virtual-tour Sat, 29 Aug 2009 22:12:50 -0700 Washington, DC, four weeks ago.  I love the Castle at the Smithsonian.  My wife bought me a really cool pin from there, too, which features the Castle. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6637665/pragmatik-smithsonian-castle- Sat, 29 Aug 2009 10:58:08 -0700 Photos from the Smithsonian National Cutie-Pie Zoo reveal that a pair of cute Q-Tip puffs were born to the Zoo's pair of (kind of fugly) burrowing owls . The chicks, which are made entirely of puffy paint, are the first burrowing owls to be successfully bred at the... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6637502/cotton-balls-born-at-smithsonian-national-baby-zoo Sat, 29 Aug 2009 10:40:08 -0700 Emmett Till's original glass-topped casket, left to waste in a Burr Oak Cemetery shed, will become a source of inspiration for future generations once it goes on display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., museum officials and Till's family said Friday. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6640331/emmett-till-s-casket-off-to-smithsonian Sat, 29 Aug 2009 02:00:08 -0700 Photo by staceyviera It's late August, which means college kids are back in town. Expect more crowded bars around Foggy Bottom and Georgetown, long lines at Target and Bed Bath & Beyond, and at least for a few months, more confused young people on the Metro. Some... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6635463/overheard-in-d-c-higher-ed Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:50:08 -0700 CHICAGO -- A casket that helped trigger the civil rights movement and decades later was discarded like trash is now heading to the Smithsonian Institution. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green) In this July 10, 2009, photo, the original glass-topped casket of lynching victim... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6635438/lynching-victim-emmett-till-s-casket-to-go-to-smithsonian Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:51:08 -0700 A casket that helped trigger the civil rights movement and decades later was discarded like trash is now heading to the Smithsonian Institution. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6634729/emmett-till-s-casket-going-to-smithsonian Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:15:08 -0700