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A plucky chipmunk breaks through to win this year’s Squirrel Week photo contest
The chipmunk wasn’t going to let three feet of snow keep him down.
- Apr 13, 2021
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Squirrelpalooza 2021: Here are this year’s 37 winning squirrel photos
We narrowed hundreds of photos of squirrels down to these 37 cute, funny, touching pictures.
- Apr 13, 2021
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Was Bebe Thomsen a ditsy animal lover or a Nazi spy? Even her friends wondered.
The diplomat’s wife kept a pet red squirrel named Bienchen at her District home.
- Apr 12, 2021
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Here’s the story behind a viral video of a baby red squirrel munching on seeds
A British wildlife photographer turned professional after the response to her 15-second clip.
- Apr 11, 2021
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Stress test: Scientists go inside the brains and bloodstreams of squirrels
Researchers are interested in human impacts on squirrels — and not the kind cars make.
- Apr 10, 2021
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‘It’s Academic’ has a new question: Who will sponsor the long-running quiz show?
Giant Food will no longer support the show, which has been on the air since 1961.
- Apr 7, 2021
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A replica of an atom bomb sits on a shelf in a Maryland thrift shop
After building it for a documentary, Paul Falcon just couldn’t bring himself to throw it away.
- Apr 6, 2021
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For springtime: Haiku that look forward to a better year ahead
Masks and cicadas join cherry blossoms as inspirations for this year’s contest.
- Apr 5, 2021
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My computer ate a month’s worth of emails. Somehow, it’s my fault.
If computers aren’t alive, why are they capable of such cold malevolence?
- Apr 4, 2021
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In 1899, tourists to D.C. could visit Egypt and Rome at the Halls of the Ancients
Franklin Webster Smith had grand plans for a Classical museum in Washington.
- Apr 3, 2021