Smithsonian Magazine: January 2008
Features
Danger Zones
Warning: David Maisel's aerial landscapes may be hazardous to your assumptions
By Megan Gambino
Thinking Like a Monkey
What do our primate cousins know and when do they know it? Researcher Laurie Santos is trying to read their minds
By Jerry Adler
Letters from Vincent
Never-before-exhibited correspondence from van Gogh to a protégé displays a thoughtful exacting side of the artist
By Arthur Lubow
The Lost Fort of Columbus
On his voyage to the Americas in 1492, the explorer built a small fort somewhere in the Caribbean. A construction contractor from Washington State has spent decades trying to find it
By Frances Maclean
The Smithsonian Life List
We've traveled the globe and compiled a "life list" of places to visit before taking the ultimate trip to the great beyond
By Smithsonian Magazine Staff
Departments
Indelible Images
Big News
In matters of sheer magnitude, Robert Howlett got the picture
By Victoria Olsen
Phenomena
The Coldest Place in the Universe
Physicists in Massachusetts come to grips with the lowest possible temperature: absolute zero
By Tom Shachtman
My Kind of Town
Among the Spires
Between medieval and modern, Oxford seeks equilibrium
By Jan Morris
Presence of Mind
Sound and Fury
Norman Mailer's anger and towering ego propelled-and undermined-his prodigious output
By Lance Morrow
Wild Things
Wild Things
Life as We Know It
By Jess Blumberg, T.A. Frail, Megan Gambino, Laura Helmuth and Sarah Zielinski
Around the Mall
Rasta Revealed
A reclamation of African identity evolved into a worldwide cultural, religious and political movement
By Jess Blumberg
The Object at Hand
Explorer I Satellite
In 1958, Explorer 1 launched America's response to the USSR's Sputnik
By Owen Edwards
Q&A
Norman Foster
Architect norman foster designed the glass canopy at the Smithsonian's Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture. He spoke with Jess Blumberg.
By Jess Blumberg
