Arts & Culture

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Challenge: A Week Without Recipes

Braised pot roast

Food Summit: Steps Toward a Safer Food System

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The FDA Cracks Down on Food Health Claims

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Chile Earthquake Strikes a Blow to Wine Industry

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The ABC's of Maple Syrup

Syrup is classified by letter grades—A, B and C, with several subcategories in between—from lightest to darkest

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Five Ways to Eat Coconut

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates on "Going Home Again"

For every hybrid sport that gets the Olympic seal of approval, there are dozens of others languishing in obscurity.

Hybrid Sports in a League of Their Own

From underwater hockey to chess boxing, could these unheralded hybrid sports be ready for prime time?

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Letters

Readers Respond to the January Issue

The five-foot-wide Tata Nano car is on view at the Cooper-Hewitt until April 25.

What's Up

Ongoing studies of Neanderthal skeletons unearthed in Iraq during the 1950s suggest the existence of a more complex social structure than previously thought.

The Skeletons of Shanidar Cave

A rare cache of hominid fossils from the Kurdistan area of northern Iraq offers a window on Neanderthal culture

Rick Potts, director of the Human Origins Program at the Natural History Museum, proposed that climate change was the driving force in human evolution.

Q and A: Rick Potts

The Smithsonian anthropologist turned heads when he proposed that climate change was the driving force in human evolution

The new hall at the Natural History Museum explains our ancestral tree.

From the Castle: Becoming Us

Homo heidelbergensis—one of five sculptures crafted for the new exhibition hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History—takes shape at a Baltimore foundry.

Sculpting Evolution

A series of statues by sculptor John Gurche brings us face to face with our early ancestors

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New & Improved Fugu: Now, Without Poison!

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Unconventional Ovens

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Making Science Palatable

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Fun With Pho

Ever tried something for the first time and immediately felt like smacking yourself in the forehead?

A tag sealing a bag of hot dog buns displays a best before date of February 29

Decoding Expiration Dates

Eat up—It's National Something Day

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