Smithsonian Magazine: February 2011
Features
Warsaw on the Rise
A building boom is led by "starchitects" aiming to transcend the Polish capital's troubled past
By Rudolph Chelminski
Snow Phantom
Rare and maddeningly elusive, lynx try to give scientists the slip high in the mountains of Montana
By Abigail Tucker
The Reluctant President
It seemed as if everyone rejoiced at the election of George Washington except the man himself
By Ron Chernow
Flower Power
Chances are the bouquet you're about to buy came from Colombia. What's behind the blooms?
By John McQuaid
Wayne Thiebaud Is Not a Pop Artist
He made his name painting cakes, gumboil machines and other everyday subjects. But, entering his tenth decade and still hard at work
By Cathleen McGuigan
Invisible Glory
Two unsung space telescopes create eye-opening images of the universe from light we can't see
By Abigail Tucker
Departments
Wild Things
Wild Things: Great Whites, Tree Snakes, Drongos and More
These animals redefine life as we know it
By T.A. Frail, Megan Gambino, Jesse Rhodes, Jess Righthand and Sarah Zielinski
Interview
Interview with Jane McGonigal, Computer-Game Developer
Computer-Game Developer, San Francisco, CA
By Amanda Bensen
My Kind of Town
Nature Boy
Fauna and flora (not all of it welcome) surround the novelist at his onetime fixer-upper by Frank Lloyd Wright
By T.C. Boyle
Around the Mall
Survival Training, Ferret Style
Before the captive animals can go free, they have to hone their killer instinct
By Morgan Heim
The Object at Hand
Splittling Image
Even Honest Abe needed a symbol to sum up his humble origins
By Owen Edwards
Presence of Mind
Battle Station
Samuel Eliot Morison's monumental eyewitness history of the Navy in World War II—now being reissued—won't be surpassed
By James D. Hornfischer
The Last Page
Together, At Last
Doris Day, Miles Davis and Devo share the stage
By Richard Middleton
