Articles

Clyde Roper Can't Wait to Be Attacked by a Giant Squid

After studying (and eating) smaller squid for years, the Smithsonian's cephalopod man is now ready to face the biggest calamari of all

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How Taxonomy Helps Us Make Sense Out of the Natural World

We all have a need to classify plants and animals, which is what the National Museum of Natural History does on a grand scale

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Package Design: the Art of Selling, All Wrapped Up

When competition for customers' attention gets ferocious, that bottle, carton or can is a lot more than just another pretty face

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America's Favorite Game Is the One Everybody Can Play

It doesn't get hyped big-time like other sports, but at the grass-roots level, where it thrives, softball is in a league of its own

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When They Put It in Writing, They Were Cursing, Not Cussing

In ancient times, those in the know called on the many spirits of the underworld to make their curses, hexes and spells come true

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Tools as Art

Welcome to the Hechinger Collection, where hammers are brittle, saws never get old and wrenches mimic baby birds

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Speeding Through the Great Books on the Road to Higher Learning

Speeding through the Great Books on the road to higher learning

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Review of 'The Song of the Dodo'

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The Way We Were—and the Way We Went—in 1846

What with the Mexican War, and a million square miles of new real estate, our westward destiny became highly manifest

Jas de Bouffan, 1876

Cézanne's Endless Quest to Parallel Nature's Harmony

After all the analysis of his apples, his bathers, that mountain, his paintings still electrify at a major show in Philadelphia

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Smithsonian Perspectives

Volunteer service at the Smithsonian is a time-honored tradition that goes all the way back to Joseph Henry, our first Secretary

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Around the Mall & Beyond

Red-hot, beat-me-down, bring-you-up swing tunes' are just part of Radio Smithsonian's Black Radio...

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In the Company of Cannibals That Sting...and Glow

Found everywhere from beaches to 14,000 feet up in the Himalayas, scorpions kill more people than any other animal except snakes and bees

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Phenomena, Comment and Notes

When a drop of rain carries a particle of dirt off the land and into the sea, there are repercussions from deep within Earth to the nearer reaches of space

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The Art Treasures of China Are on the Road Once More

For years they were shuttled from one hiding place to another to escape the Japanese and then the Communists - now they're coming here

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Giving Money Away Wisely Ought to Be a Piece of Cake

It's harder than you think, but even more rewarding, as the Stocker family foundation shows in Lorain, Ohio, and points West

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How to Succeed in Business: Follow the Choctaws' Lead

Within a generation, the rural Mississippi tribe has created thousands of jobs and transformed itself into an economic dynamo

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When France Was Home to African-American Artists

Everything was open to them in postwar Paris, as a new exhibit in New York proves

Fabergé Winter-Egg

Fabergé's Labor of Love: A Case of Cherchez la Femme

After a spectacular collection was given to a Paris museum, the story emerged of how a princess kept the flame of love burning

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What's In a Name? Just Ask King Fisher, Robin Banks and Minnie Vann

What's in a name? Just ask King Fisher, Robin Banks and Minnie Vann

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