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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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