Joseph Caputo

Joseph Caputo

Joseph Caputo is a former editorial intern for Smithsonian and now a freelance science writer and editor based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Stories from this author

The Paschall Brothers' album, "On the Right Road Now."

Odes To Joy

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How Photography (and Facebook) Changes Everything

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The Scientist Is In

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“Blues Music is Truth” - A Farewell Tribute to John Cephas

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March Madness for the Mind at the Smithsonian

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Curator Escapes The Museum in New Video Game

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The Smithsonian Latino Museum Opens — in Second Life

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Shuten Dōji Will Drink Your Blood and Eat Your Flesh

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The Importance of Irish Pirates

Group of people cheering and waving Irish flags during the St. Patrick's Day parade in New York City.

Unusual St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations

Leprechauns and green shamrocks are only a part of celebrating St. Patrick’s Day for Irish communities around the world

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Sarkozy’s Not the First World Leader to Collect Stamps

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How Zoo Nutritionist Mike Maslanka Feeds the Animals

Charles and Henry Greene furniture now on display at the Renwick Gallery.

What’s Up

Exhibits from the National Museum of Natural History, National Portrait Gallery, National Postal Museum, Freer Gallery of Art and the Renwick Gallery

After discovering a new species of bird, research ornithologist Brian Schmidt made sure to give it a proper name: "stout bird that bears a flam-colored throat."

Naming a New Species

Smithsonian naturalist Brian Schmidt gave a new species of African bird an interesting scientific name

Artist Ori Gersht created traditional still-life arrangements only to blow them up, literally.

Still Life Explosions

Artist Ori Gersht details the beauty and violence behind his works

Irish Pirate Ballads and other Songs of the Sea from Smithsonian Folkways.

Sing Like A Pirate

The boy's skeleton was crammed into a cellar pit with a broken ceramic milk pan lying across his rib cage.

Solving a 17th-Century Crime

Forensic anthropologists at the National Museum of Natural History find answers to a colonial cold case

Dr. Edward Arnett (in the orange vest), a scientist with Bat Conservation International and his bat-finding labrador retriever accompany plant manager Chris Long at the Casselman Wind Power Project in Pennsylvania.

Can Wind Power Be Wildlife Friendly

New research aims to stop turbines from killing bats and birds

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Meet the Artist: Ori Gersht

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Remembering Executive Order 9066

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