Megan Gambino

Megan Gambino

 

Megan Gambino is a senior web editor for Smithsonian magazine.

William Edgar Geil on the Great Wall at Luowenyu, June 7, 1908. William Lindesay had thumbed through Geil’s book The Great Wall of China, and was stunned by the photographs, particularly one showing Geil near a tower on a remote section of the wall. Lindesay had a photo of himself in that very spot but noticed that in his the tower was missing.

A Yankee in China

William Lindesay follows the trail of forgotten traveler, William Edgar Geil, the first man to traverse the Great Wall of China

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Test Your Knowledge: Who is Mark Catesby?

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On Climate Change: American Indian Museum's Call to Consciousness

University of Cincinnati-led researchers found sunflower seeds in Tabasco, Mexico.

Wild Things

Mouse lemur calls, a coral comeback, sunflower seeds and more

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Guy Gugliotta on "The Great Human Migration"

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A Skydiving Photographer Reveals Almost All, but for One Secret

Having made more than 1,000 skydives, some 600 with a camera, daredevil adventurer Andy Keech has hot-dogged it with the best of adrenaline junkies.

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Interview: Eric G. Wilson

Why the pursuit of happiness naturally includes melancholy

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A Unique Frame of Mind

Architect Tom Kundig thinks outside the box to reinvent the notion of "home"

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Interview with Leigh Montville

The sportswriter discusses John Montague’s fabled antics and how the man changed golf

Ulrich Boser

Ulrich Boser on “Diamonds in Demand”

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A Dream to Remember

At Hirshhorn exhibit, "the cinematic is in the way we perceive the world, in the way we speak, in the way we dream."

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Build a Better Bike Rack

Build a better bike rack

Crash and Burn

 So a master kite builder, I am not. I found that much out at the 42nd Annual Smithsonian Kite Festival this past Saturday

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Patricia Zaradic, Conservation Ecologist, Pennsylvania

The trouble with "videophilia"

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On the Job: Broadway Producer

Broadway producer Jeffrey Seller tells us what it takes to stage a hit musical

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Wolf Tracker

Biologist Gudrun Pflueger talks about her encounter with a Canadian pack

"I Just Want to Fly"

New Zealander Rob Hall, at the 28,000-foot mark of Everest's Southeast Ridge in 1994, led Jon Krakauer's team up in 1996. A storm claimed the lives of eight climbers, including Hall's, on that widely publicized expedition

Conquering Everest

A history of climbing the world's tallest mountain

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The Mating Game

Stale Cookies in a Jar

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