Smithsonian Magazine: May 2011
Features
Lost City of the Maya
Deep in the Guatemalan rain forest, an American archaeologist leads efforts to solve the mystery of El Mirador, a 2,500-year-old metropolis that's larger, more impressive and even older than the better-known Tikal
By Chip Brown
Aftershocks
The powerful earthquake that struck Yokohama and Tokyo on September 1, 1923, traumatized a nation and unleashed historic consequences
By Joshua Hammer
The Triumph of Dr. Druker
He championed a cancer drug that has saved thousands of lives since its debut ten years ago this month. Now Brian Druker is more optimistic than ever that scientists are advancing on the dread disease
By Terence Monmaney
By the Shores of Gitche Gumee
Michigan's upper peninsula—celebrated by Longfellow—offers unspoiled forests, waterfalls, coastal villages and 19th-century architecture
By Jonathan Kandell
Faithful Monuments
California's 18th-and 19th-century Spanish mission, treasured for their stark beauty, testify to the state's fraught history
By Jamie Katz
A Garden Through Time
In Florida, a lush sanctuary shows off a thousand years of Japanese landscape design
By Thomas Swick
Have Meme, Will Travel
Information behaves like life itself. And vice versa
By James Gleick
Departments
Wild Things
Wild Things: Spider Monkeys, Fire Ants, Hagfish and More...
Dinosaur "thunder thighs" and fast-flying moths
By Arcynta Ali Childs, T.A. Frail, Megan Gambino, Brian Switek and Sarah Zielinski
Indelible Images
Photo Finish
Henry Carfagna had seen many a heart-stopping stretch drive, but nothing like this
By Robert Temple
Around the Mall
Paging Doctor Hippocrates
Ancient texts provide clues to identifying 2,000-year-old medicine
By Megan Gambino
The Object at Hand
Larger Than Life
A Senegalese sculptor pays homage to Haiti's 18th-century leader
By Owen Edwards
Making History
Timeless Images
Recently discovered photos depict the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake—in color
By Arcynta Ali Childs
