Articles

Ernie LaPointe and his family are the closest living relatives of Sitting Bull.

Making History

Giving Back

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Norman Foster

Architect norman foster designed the glass canopy at the Smithsonian's Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture. He spoke with Jess Blumberg.

Pete Seeger, 1986.

Jukebox

Seeger Singalong

Explorer 1 satellite

Explorer I Satellite

In 1958, Explorer 1 launched America's response to the USSR's Sputnik

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One Love: Discovering Rastafari!

The curator of a groundbreaking exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History discusses Rastafarian culture

"Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear"
Vincent van Gogh
1889

Van Gogh in Auvers

The artist's tumultuous last days

Not long after production of the Model T began in the fall of 1908, it would fulfill the dream of Henry Ford (with a Model T in Buffalo, New York, in 1921) to empower the masses.

1908

Aeroplanes! Skyscrapers! The race to the North Pole! Mobile phones? Inventions, predictions and breakthroughs that propelled America into the modern age

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Pulled by Bears

In 1908, anything was possible

What became of the settlement that Christopher Columbus' crew built after his flagship ran aground? Clark Moore (in Haiti near the Bay of L'Acul, where the <em>Santa Maria</em> is believed to have foundered) is on the trail: "We know Columbus built the fort inside a large Indian village."

The Lost Fort of Columbus

On his voyage to the Americas in 1492, the explorer built a small fort somewhere in the Caribbean

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January Anniversaries

Momentous or Merely Memorable

Bright idea: Wolfgang Ketterle (in his M.I.T lab) hopes to discover new forms of matter by studying ultracold atoms.

The Coldest Place in the Universe

Physicists in Massachusetts come to grips with the lowest possible temperature: absolute zero

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Sound and Fury

Norman Mailer's anger and towering ego propelled-and undermined-his prodigious output

To learn how the mind works, biologist Laurie Santos (with a research subject on Cayo Santiago) studies a seemingly paradoxical question: Do monkeys assume that people act like monkeys?

Thinking Like a Monkey

What do our primate cousins know and when do they know it? Researcher Laurie Santos is trying to read their minds

Orcas swim in ice floes.

Wild Things

Life as We Know It

Absolute Zero

Why Is A Negative Number Called Absolute Zero?

Oxford is a "baffling jumble of structures . . . with no obvious center to them," says the author.

Among the Spires

Between medieval and modern, Oxford seeks equilibrium

The real thrill of Pompeii is that the most mundane aspects of ancient Roman life have been preserved for centuries beneath fine-grained volcanic ash.

28 Places to See Before You Die—the Taj Mahal, Grand Canyon and More

We've traveled the globe and compiled a "life list" of places to visit before taking the ultimate trip to the great beyond

Mesa Verde

In the Cliffs of Mesa Verde

Climb into the Colorado cliff dwellings and imagine what life was like for the Ancestral Pueblo Indians who lived there

Pompeii

A Glimpse of Old Pompeii

Preserved under the volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius are the everyday goings-on of ancient Roman life

Tikal

The Mystery of Tikal

An ancient Mayan city, once hidden by overgrown jungle, evokes a childlike sense of wonder

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