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What Traditional Societies Can Teach You About Life
A new book from best-selling author Jared Diamond tells us how we can learn a lot from people who live like most of us did 11,000 years ago
December 26, 2012
| By Amy Crawford
The Brazilian government’s bold efforts to clean up the city’s notoriously dangerous favelas is giving hope to people who live there
January 2013
| By Joshua Hammer
Sebastian Thrun, winner of the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award for education takes is redefining the modern classroom
December 2012
| By Tom Vanderbilt
Bryan Stevenson, the winner of the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award in social justice, has taken his fight all the way to the Supreme Court
December 2012
| By Chris Hedges
Local politics take a dramatic turn in southern California over a plan to clean up an iconic American playground
November 2012
| By Claire Martin
Photographer Zed Nelson traveled the world documenting how body improvement has practically become a new religion
October 2012
| By Joseph Stromberg
A relic from the Cold War, this instrument of death gets a new life … and a new look
October 15, 2012
| By Lisa Bramen
Is the mooncake just going through a phase or are these new variations on the Chinese treat here to stay?
October 02, 2012
| By Mike Ives
Salman Khan, a rising star in the education world, has a vision for a new kind of classroom
October 01, 2012
| By Megan Gambino
The Nobel Peace Prize winner talks about the secret weapon in her decades of struggle—the power of Buddhism
September 2012
| By Joshua Hammer
In Kyrgyzstan, traditional horse games offer a glimpse into Central Asia’s nomadic past
August 09, 2012
| By Mike Ives
A piece of history on the Pacific Coast was almost lost to budget cuts, until a Russian billionaire stepped in to save the endangered state park
July 06, 2012
| By Amy Crawford
Lured by the soaring price of the precious metal, prospectors are heading for the California hills like it's 1849 all over again
July 2012
| By Abigail Tucker
As her controversial new memoir will show, the leader of the U.S. women’s soccer team has always defended her turf
July 2012
| By Nancy Hass
Two doctors in Boston may have found a way to identify which homeless people are most in need of urgent medical care
May 17, 2012
| By Abigail Tucker
Even in democratic nations, mothers and daughters are held back from basic freedoms
May 15, 2012
| By Kathleen Burke
The renowned author of the memoir Infidel found refuge here from persecution abroad
June 2012
| By Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The cold war may be over, but sales of a new breed of bomb shelter are on the rise. Prepare to survive Armageddon in style
June 2012
| By Abigail Tucker
A new campaign has enjoyed stunning success in lowering the number of chronically homeless in the United States
June 2012
| By Abigail Tucker
A photographer's images of domestic tranquility pay tribute to U.S. service members
May 2012
| By T.A. Frail
In an exclusive excerpt, read about the mysterious death of a young teenager that inspired a complicated web of European intrigue
April 12, 2012
| By Joshua Hammer
From the Beats to CEOs, the residents of Sausalito’s houseboat community cherish their history and their neighbors
April 04, 2012
| By Jeff Greenwald
They helped overthrow Qaddafi by smuggling arms and spying on the government. Now the women of Libya are fighting for a greater voice in society
April 2012
| By Joshua Hammer
The 1,080-foot-high Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, opening in April, has also been labeled the "Hotel of Doom"
March 2012
| By Mark Strauss
After half a century of studying jib-jabbing, linguists have just finished the nation's most ambitious dictionary of regional dialects
March 2012
| By Abigail Tucker
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