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Memory hippocampus brain

How Our Brains Make Memories

Surprising new research about the act of remembering may help people with post-traumatic stress disorder
May 2010 | By Greg Miller

Randy Olson Flock of Dodos

Are Scientists or Moviemakers the Bigger Dodos?

Scientist-turned-filmmaker Randy Olson says that academics must be more like Hollywood in how they share their love for science
October 30, 2009 | By Abby Callard

“His scientific contributions are joyful, spark curiosity and inspire the young,” computer scientist Jeannette Wing says of her colleague Luis von Ahn (on the Carnegie Mellon campus, seated upon one of the “guest chairs” he keeps in his office).

The Player

Luis von Ahn's secret for making computers smarter? Get thousands of people to take part in his cunning online games
October 2007 | By Polly Shulman

tao

Primed for Success

Terence Tao is regarded as first among equals among young mathematicians, but who's counting
October 2007 | By Dana Mackenzie

Jeremi Suri

The Big Picture

Political historian Jeremi Suri has come up with a new way of looking at the links between the low and the mighty
October 2007 | By Heather Laroi

“I am equally engaged by what is the beautiful and what is the degraded,” says Sanditz (in her Tivoli, New York, studio). A recent painting, Pearl Farm I (at right), was inspired by her visits to pearl farms in China, where discarded plastic bottles were used as buoys to mark the oyster beds.

Painting the Edge

With an eye for despoiled landscapes, Lisa Sanditz captures the sublime
October 2007 | By Arthur Lubow

“I do think there’s a lot of good writing now on TV,” says Ruhl. “I loved ‘Six Feet Under,’ for example. But writing plays is my first passion. So far, I’m very happy in the theater.”

Wild Woman

Playwright Sarah Ruhl speaks softly and carries a big kick
October 2007 | By Matthew Gurewitsch

There’s a misperception about prejudice, says Richeson, that “people do bad things because they’re bad people, and there are only a few of these bad apples around.” All of us have prejudices, she adds, but we also have the capacity to change.

The Bias Detective

How does prejudice affect people? Psychologist Jennifer Richeson is on the case
October 2007 | By David Berreby

Nico Muhly finds inspiration for his classical compositions in everything from Renaissance to electronic sources. “The idea that you have to take sides…just never occurred to me,” he says.

High Scorer

Composer Nico Muhly wowed them at Carnegie Hall and the New York Public Library
October 2007 | By Tim Page

Jazz innovator Jason Moran says he was transformed at age 14 by the music of Thelonious Monk: “Any money I earned from a gig, I’d run out and buy Monk records.”

Keeper of the Keys

Pianist Jason Moran laces his strikingly original music with the soulful sounds of jazz greats
October 2007 | By Jamie Katz

“All the issues out there sound so good—lower taxes, privatization of government services, neighborhood schools,” says Kruse (near Princeton, New Jersey, in July 2007). “But you can’t just buy into the ‘Leave it to Beaver’ mythology.”

Civil Wrongs

In a painstaking study of 1960s Atlanta, Kevin Kruse takes suburban whites to task
October 2007 | By Dick Polman

Jon Kleinberg has found that even within networks of Web users, people tend to have relationships with people not so far away.

Net Worker

Where are your friends in cyberspace? Closer than you might think, says Internet researcher Jon Kleinberg
October 2007 | By Matt Dellinger

In prints, drawings and paintings, Trenton Doyle Hancock weaves themes from comic books, toy design and the Bible in tales of good.

Mounds vs. Vegans

In drawings and paintings, Trenton Doyle Hancock pits archetypes against each other
October 2007 | By Amy Crawford

“Lending to somebody,” says Flannery, “sends the message that you’re treating them as an equal. It’s a dignifiedway to interact.”

I, Lender

Software engineer Matt Flannery pioneers Internet microloans to the world's poor
October 2007 | By Amy Crawford

“What I’m trying to do is treat images as seriously as text,” says Bleichmar (at USC in March 2007). The illustrations she has studied were dismissed by art historians as inferior art and by historians of science as something akin to decoration.

Flower Power

Studying ancient botanical drawings, Daniela Bleichmar is rewriting the history of the Spanish conquest of the Americas
October 2007 | By Rick Wartzman

Ecocenter Energy

EcoCenter: Energy

What are governments, companies and households doing to conserve energy and pursue a "greener" future?
September 24, 2007 | By Smithsonian.com

The first Glidehouse

House Proud

High design in a factory-made home? Michelle Kaufmann believes she holds the key
January 2007 | By William Booth

Barbed Wire patent

Patent Pending

The Supreme Court may soon reinvent the rules for invention
January 01, 2007 | By Eric Jaffe

35 Who Made a Difference: Steven Spielberg

A renowned director contemplates the lessons of history
November 01, 2005 | By Kenneth Turan

Peacock in the Woods by Abbott Thayer

A Painter of Angels Became the Father of Camouflage

Turn-of-the-century artist Abbott Thayer created images of timeless beauty and a radical theory of concealing coloration
April 1999 | By Richard Meryman


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