o A 3D Digital Interactive of Santa Elena's Fort San Marcos By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0000 At the Coastal Discovery Museum’s exhibition, visitors will be able to view a 3D digital interactive that reconstructs the original Fort San Marcos on Santa Elena. (Credit: Coastal Discovery Museum at Honey Horn) Full Article
o What Roberto Clemente Meant to Baseball By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0000 Biographer David Maraniss says that in order to truly understand Clemente's importance to the sport, you have to look beyond his spectacular numbers Full Article
o The Descendants: Jared Miller as Richard Oliver By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0000 Smithsonian magazine commissioned Drew Gardner for a project that connects Black Americans today to their lost ancestry. Read about Gardner’s project and process, as well as more details about the subjects of this incredible series here: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/descendants-black-civil-war-heroes-wear-heritage-pride-180983397/ Video produced by Sierra Theobald. Special thanks to Drew Gardner Additional credits: Emma MacBeath, WikiTree US Black Heritage project; Ottawa Goodman, research and coordinator; Sam Dole, Penumbra Foundation; Elizabeth Zuck, set design; Calvin Osbourne, props and costume; Angela Huff, hair and make up; Diego Huerta, Lexia Krebs, behind-the-scenes filming; background prints by Fujifilm USA Full Article
o 5 Surprising Facts About Lincoln By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0000 The 16th president is widely celebrated for his role in helping to abolish slavery and preserving the Union during the Civil War. But did you know these facts about this iconic figure in American History? --- For more videos from Smithsonian Magazine: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/ Digital Editorial Director: Brian Wolly Supervising Producer & Scriptwriter: Michelle Mehrtens Video Editor: Sierra Theobald Full Article
o Chili and the Food of the Southwest By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0000 Jane Butel, author and expert on food from the American Southwest, reveals the stories behind how chili peppers, beef and wine became part of the region's cuisine (Meredith Bragg) Full Article
o What Is the James Webb Space Telescope? By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0000 For more than a year now, the world has been treated to breathtaking images of the outer reaches of our universe from the NASA instrument. But how does it even work? --- For more videos from Smithsonian Magazine: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/ Digital Editorial Director: Brian Wolly Supervising Producer & Scriptwriter: Michelle Mehrtens Video Editor: Sierra Theobald Full Article
o The Freedom Riders History By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0000 In the spring of 1961, black and white civil rights activists rode buses to protest the segregationist policies of the Deep South (Marian Holmes, Brian Wolly, Photos courtesy of Corbis, Getty Images and Library of Congress, Audio clips courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways. Read more at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-freedom-riders-then-and-now-45351758/ Full Article
o The Past, Present and Future of Agriculture By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0000 Humans have been modifying plants since the beginning of agriculture, but now, globalization and new technologies have given us more control and more power over our food than ever before. Full Article
o Final Farewell to the Space Shuttle By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0000 As the space shuttles complete their final missions, curator Valerie Neal at the National Air and Space Museum highlights the spacecraft's history and legacy in manned space flight. Full Article
o Mariachi Music of Puebla, Mexico By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0000 Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/Savoring-Puebla.html The streets of Puebla are filled with the sound of Mariachis who sing at most traditional Mexican ceremony. Full Article
o Home for the 100 Year Herd By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0000 The National Zoo gets a new state of the art Elephant Community Center complete with 8,943 square meters of romping room Full Article
o The Raid on Harpers Ferry By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0000 In one fateful night, John Brown brought the country closer to Civil War (Video: Meredith Bragg). Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Day-of-Reckoning.html Full Article
o Ask Smithsonian: How Do Colors Affect Our Moods? By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0000 Feeling blue? Try watching this one-minute video. Our Ask Smithsonian host, Eric Schulze, explains how colors affect our moods. Full Article
o Cornwall, the Most Beautiful Place in Britain By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0000 One of the most evocative and breathtakingly beautiful coastal landscapes in Britain is the historic county of Cornwall. It’s also a place steeped in legend, including that of Britain’s legendary King Arthur. Full Article
o Smithsonian's Own Crime Scene Investigator By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0000 Forensic anthropologist Doug Owsley discusses the skeletal specimens in a new exhibit at the Natural History Museum (Meredith Bragg). Read more at: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/meet-the-scientist-who-reads-bones-40315000/ Full Article
o What Was on the Menu at the First Thanksgiving? By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0000 Follow us to the very first Thanksgiving celebration, where the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag came together for a historic feast. Full Article
o Director David Lynch Wants Schools to Teach Transcendental Meditation to Reduce Stress By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0000 David Lynch | Smithsonian Magazine’s 2016 American Ingenuity Award Winner for Education As a filmmaker, Lynch has a reputation for creating dark, surreal movies such as Eraserhead, Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart as well as the TV show “Twin Peaks.” In the education world, he's becoming known for something very different: promoting inner peace. Over the past decade, the David Lynch Foundation has sponsored Transcendental Meditation classes for half a million children in places as far-flung as the Bronx, Detroit, Los Angeles, Congo and the West Bank. The program, called Quiet Time, is now at the center of one of the largest-ever studies of meditation for children—a 6,800-pupil research project conducted by the Crime Lab at the University of Chicago and designed to learn if meditation can help kids in highly stressful environments fare better at home and in school. Read more about Lynch’s work: http://smithmag.co/9sHhtm | #IngenuityAwards And more about the American Ingenuity Awards: http://smithmag.co/77xPqy Full Article
o Hazel Scott, Jazz and Classical Pianist, Performs Liszt By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0000 Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Hazel-Scotts-Lifetime-of-High-Notes.html In a performance filmed for World War II soldiers, Hazel Scott begins with a section from Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2" and ends with a jazzy tune (Army / Navy Screen Magazine). Full Article
o Funkadelic Mothership Footage By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0000 Full Article
o Yosemite Slideshow By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0000 Carleton Watkins' 19th-Century Photographs of Yosemite Valley (Produced and Narrated by: Brendan McCabe. Text by Bruce Hathaway). Read more at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/john-muirs-yosemite-10737/ Full Article
o 10 Fun Facts About Jellyfish By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0000 Jellyfish, the wobbly wonders of the ocean, often astound with their unique shapes, sizes, and stings. Learn more about these marine marvels as we dive deeper into the underwater world. --- For more videos from Smithsonian Magazine: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/ Digital Editorial Director: Brian Wolly Supervising Producer & Scriptwriter: Michelle Mehrtens Video Editor: Sierra Theobald Footage provided by Storyblocks and Shutterstock Full Article
o These Mesmerizing Carvings Tell a Mysterious Tribe's Story By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0000 Clues into the disappearance of the ancient Picts lie in the tiny Scottish village of Aberlemno: 1,700-year-old Pictish stones, marked with some very unusual carvings. Full Article
o Erin Brockovich Congratulates Marc Edwards & LeeAnne Walters | Smithsonian American Ingenuity Awards By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0000 “Superman isn’t coming. It is a moment in our time when we must look to ourselves, and not take for granted or wait for something from the top to come down, but rather…pick up the torch, carry the torch, to find information and the truth…” – Erin Brockovich applauds Marc Edwards and LeeAnne Walters for their work exposing the Flint water crisis | Smithsonian Magazine American #IngenuityAwards Read more about Edwards and Walters’ work: http://smithmag.co/D4dIHy The Smithsonian has been celebrating innovation in American culture for more than 150 years, and following in this tradition, Smithsonian magazine presents the American Ingenuity Awards, honoring revolutionary breakthroughs in the arts and sciences, education and social progress. http://smithmag.co/R7hyRO Full Article
o How NASA Captured Asteroid Dust to Find the Origins of Life By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0000 Capturing a piece of an asteroid and bringing it to Earth is even more difficult than it is time-consuming. After four years in space, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx craft made a brief landing on the asteroid Bennu to collect samples of the ancient rock. Six months later, part of the spacecraft began its journey home to Earth, and earlier this fall, that sample collection canister landed, via parachute, in Utah. Scientists will be studying those samples of Bennu for decades in the hope of unlocking the mystery of how life on Earth began — but they’ve already learned enough to get them excited. In this episode, we speak with Linda Shiner, the former editor of Air & Space / Smithsonian magazine, about the challenges and triumphs of the OSIRIS-REx mission, and what scientists hope it will teach us about how life on Earth began. Find prior episodes of our show here (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/podcast/) . There’s More to That is a production of Smithsonian magazine and PRX Productions. From the magazine, our team is Chris Klimek, Debra Rosenberg and Brian Wolly. From PRX, our team is Jessica Miller, Adriana Rosas Rivera, Genevieve Sponsler, Terence Bernardo, and Edwin Ochoa. The Executive Producer of PRX Productions is Jocelyn Gonzales. Fact-checking by Stephanie Abramson. Episode artwork by Emily Lankiewicz. Music by APM Music. Full Article
o Ask Smithsonian: Do Subliminal Messages Work? By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0000 This video does not contain hidden messages that will make you want to watch more Smithsonian videos. Full Article
o No Place Like Home By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0000 Members of the Gullah community discuss the changes facing them today Full Article
o The Dutch Nearly Beat James Cook to New Zealand By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 20:23:38 +0000 A shipwreck discovered off New Zealand dates to a time before Cook's arrival Full Article
o New Research Dispels the Myth That Ancient Cultures Had Universally Short Lifespans By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 20:56:31 +0000 Teeth are key to identifying elderly remains Full Article
o 1,700-Year-Old Sock Spins Yarn About Ancient Egyptian Fashion By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 10:00:00 +0000 This stripy toe sock appears to have warmed the foot of a tot in the late antiquity period Full Article
o Oldest Known Macroscopic Skeletal Organism Was Masquerading as Fossilized Feces By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 17:53:11 +0000 Some researchers initially dismissed the remains of Palaeopascichnus lineari as teeny turds from a bygone era Full Article
o Dallas City Council Votes to Remove Massive Confederate War Memorial By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 19:34:57 +0000 In a 11-4 vote, the City Council decided to remove the 65-foot-tall monument from its location in the heart of the city Full Article
o Easter Island's Ancient Population Never Faced Ecological Collapse, Suggests Another Study By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 13:57:50 +0000 New DNA analysis adds to growing research indicating the famous Pacific island did not collapse from overuse of resources before the arrival of Europeans Full Article
o This Remote Region in Spain Could Pay You Up to $16,000 to Move There By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:37:25 +0000 Officials in Extremadura are hoping to attract digital nomads and tech workers in a bid to boost the region's shrinking population Full Article
o A Thief Replaced This Iconic Churchill Portrait With a Fake. Two Years Later, the Original Has Been Recovered By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 17:03:15 +0000 Investigators discovered that the original print of "The Roaring Lion" had been sold to a buyer in Italy Full Article
o A Mysterious Seismic Signal Lasted Nine Days Last Year. It Was a Mega-Tsunami Caused by Climate Change, Researchers Say By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 17:45:43 +0000 A melting glacier caused a mountain in Greenland to collapse into a narrow fjord, setting off an oscillating wave that rattled seismic detectors around the world Full Article
o No Longer Full of Commuters, Atlanta's Old Subway Cars Are Now Filled With Fish By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:05:33 +0000 Two Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority railcars were added to an artificial reef off the coast of Georgia to create more wildlife habitat Full Article
o Divers Discover the Long-Lost Wreckage of a Passenger Steamship That Sank in a Hit-and-Run in 1856 By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:01:55 +0000 "Le Lyonnais" descended into the depths off the coast of Massachusetts after colliding with the "Adriatic," a sailing vessel that left the floundering steamship to fend for itself Full Article
o Rare Yellow-Eyed Penguin Wins New Zealand's Bird of the Year Contest By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:18:13 +0000 The noisy-but-shy bird, known as the hoiho, has earned the most votes for a second time amid threats to its survival Full Article
o See Footage of a Thief Breaking Into a London Gallery and Stealing Banksy's Iconic 'Girl With Balloon' By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:32:20 +0000 Officials launched an investigation and recovered the $360,000 print less than a week after it vanished from Grove Gallery. Two men have been charged for the crime Full Article
o The Sprawling Sculpture at the Center of the National World War I Memorial Has Been Unveiled in Washington, D.C. By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:00:00 +0000 "A Soldier's Journey," a 58-foot-long bronze artwork depicting vivid scenes from the war, was illuminated for the first time at a ceremony on September 13 Full Article
o An 11-Year-Old Boy Rescued a Mysterious Artwork From the Dump. It Turned Out to Be a 500-Year-Old Renaissance Print By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 16:55:50 +0000 Experts have confirmed that the image of "Knight, Death and the Devil" is a real master engraving by the renowned German artist Albrecht Dürer Full Article
o Deaths From Antibiotic-Resistant Infections Could Reach 39 Million by 2050, Study Suggests By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 19:30:08 +0000 A new paper analyzes three decades of fatalities around the world and predicts how "superbugs" will affect human health in the future Full Article
o These Ancient Egyptian Barracks Paint a Vivid Picture of Military Life During the Reign of Ramses II By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 20:11:37 +0000 Archaeologists unearthed a series of mudbrick rooms filled with religious tributes, soldiers' personal effects, engraved weaponry and animal bones Full Article
o To Strike Fear Into Napoleon's Occupying Army, These Retreating Soldiers Burned Down Their Own City By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0000 When the blaze in Moscow subsided on September 18, 1812, the French—who had traveled hundreds of miles into Russia—were left without vital resources as a brutal winter approached Full Article
o Anus-Breathing Animals and Pigeon-Guided Missiles: Ig Nobel Prizes Reward Unusual but Valuable Science By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:30:00 +0000 The annual award ceremony featured costumes, songs and paper airplanes as scientists recognized comedic research across ten disciplines Full Article
o 'Pirate Seabirds' Could Become a Pathway for Deadly Avian Flu to Spread to Australia, Study Finds By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:26:17 +0000 Kleptoparasitism, in which a bird harasses another to steal its food, might introduce avian flu to the continent, currently the only one without the severe H5N1 strain Full Article
o Europeans Were Using Cocaine in the 17th Century—Hundreds of Years Earlier Than Historians Thought By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:43:28 +0000 Scientists identified traces of the drug in the brain tissue of two individuals buried in the crypt of a hospital in Milan Full Article
o Georgia O'Keeffe's Breathtaking New York City Paintings Are Finally Getting the Attention They Deserve By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:49:51 +0000 The artist's cityscapes, once dismissed as too masculine, would later influence the floral artworks that became central to her iconic style Full Article
o Construction Project Unearths Millions of Fossils Beneath a Los Angeles High School By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:25:55 +0000 The discoveries include sharks, shorebirds, mammals and saber-toothed salmon, with the oldest remains dating to almost nine million years ago Full Article
o The Hotel Chelsea's Iconic Neon Sign Will Be Divided Into Pieces and Sold One Letter at a Time By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:28:41 +0000 The vertical sign stretched across three stories of the Manhattan hotel, which once welcomed the likes of Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Andy Warhol and Janis Joplin Full Article