Where Echoes of Spirits Still Dwell
Over a period of ten years, a photographer has documented the vanishing cultures of the Stone Age tribes of New Guinea
Picasso Takes on the Masters
A book by Susan Galassi explains why the artist with an eye on the future kept returning to the art of the past
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They Flew & Flew & Flew
How two brothers in an old Curtiss Robin set a record that’s stood for 62 years
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For Those Who Want to Play Outdoors
REI was started in the back of a gas station in 1938. Now this consumer co-op is the nation’s largest
The Strange Journey of Heinrich Harrer
The Austrian mountain climber escaped from a prison camp in 1944, slipped into forbidden Tibet, tutored the Dalai Lama and wrote a famous book
Bang! Bang! You’re Dead
Dueling at the drop of a hat was as European as truffles, and as American as mom’s apple pie
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An Illustrated History of a Mughal Emperor
The opulent paintings in the “King of the World” exhibition bring the reign of the Taj Mahal builder to life and incite a passion for learning
Two Cultures—Never the Twain Shall Meet?
Scientists wonder why today the word “Intellectual” is used to describe only those in arts and letters
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Facing a Bumpy History
The much-maligned theory of phrenology gets a tip of the hat from modern neuroscience
Pushing the Envelope
At the National Postal Museum, envelopes are as critical a part of history as the letters inside
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Claws
In Down East Maine, the lobster means more than seafood
Nitrogen
It’s colorless, odorless and gets no respect, but it’s vital to the cycle of life and we may be using too much
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Hey, Mr. White, That’s the Wrong Color for That
As hard as you might try, it’s not easy to keep folks from finding out that you’re color-blind
The Man Who Believed in Fairies
For Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, the proof was in the pictures
In Praise of Shadows
Artfully balancing them is just one of the tricky tasks faced by designers of museum lighting
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