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Novelist and gozzard Paul Theroux ruminates about avian misconceptions, anthropomorphism and March of the Penguins as “a travesty of science”
Some brushes with fame are more uplifting than others
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An Interview with Stephanie Dickey, author of “Rembrandt at 400”
Stephanie Dickey discusses Rembrandt’s ambition and what it was like to see the paintings in person
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Psychiatrist Stuart Hauser answers questions about his new book, Out of the Woods, which chronicles four emotionally disturbed teenagers
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Scholars in the fabled African city, once a great center of learning and trade, are racing to save a still emerging cache of ancient manuscripts
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When self-taught archaeologists dug up an 1850s steamboat, they brought to light a slice of American life
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A riverboat’s telltale contents included 133-year-old pickles. Want one?
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Waging Peace in the Philippines
With innovative tactics, U.S. forces make headway in the “war on terror”
Momentous or Merely Memorable
Some promising endeavors on Pacific islands
A timeline of the country’s conflicts
Paper dolls, Josephine Baker and the Seven Years’ War
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Remembering martial law 25 years later
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The Institution’s Regents include the Vice President, the Chief Justice and other national leaders
Wild Things: Life as We Know It
Parasitic plants, zebra tarantulas and wobbles in Earth’s orbit
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Bugs in trees and kids in labs get their due in a new book by “Canopy Meg”
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When elephants began dying, Peter Beard suspected that poachers were not entirely to blame
The first evidence that elephants can recognize themselves
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An ancient Greek calendar was ahead of its time
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