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Events Dec. 12-15: Seasons of Light, The Expert Is In, Day With the Artists, and Holiday Jazz
This week, see a holiday performance, talk to a bird expert, meet a pair of Native artists, and attend a jazz concert
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A Chess Champion’s Dominance—and Madness
As a young man, Paul Morphy vanquished eight opponents simultaneously while effectively blindfolded
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The Midday Ride of Paul Revere
Longfellow made the patriot’s ride to Lexington legendary, but the story of Revere’s earlier trip to Portsmouth deserves to be retold as well
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Determining Who Made the Most Movies
Some directors make more movies than others. A lot more
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New fossils give a body size boost to what may have been North America’s largest dinosaur, Alamosaurus
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Herman Hollerith’s Tabulating Machine
On this day in 1888, the groundbreaking tabulator machine was installed in a government office for the first time
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The Edible Is Political: Cookbooks from Both Sides of the Aisle
The cookbook has been a campaign tool for the women’s suffrage movement, John F. Kennedy and now Ron Paul
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Visualizing a Year of Extreme Weather
The United States has seen thousands of weather records broken this year
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When a Smartphone Becomes a Wallet
They won’t go mainstream for a few years, but mobile wallets are finally starting to pick up steam in the U.S.
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Farthest South: News from a Solo Antarctic Adventurer
Aston is in no-man’s land, where schedules and responsibility carry little relevance, but she is bound by one logistic: “I can’t miss the last plane out”
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The Unknown Contributions of Brits in the American Civil War
Historian Amanda Foreman discusses how British citizens took part in the war between the Union and the Confederacy
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Who Wrote the First Dinosaur Novel?
A decade before The Lost World debuted, one science fiction writer beat Arthur Conan Doyle to the dinosaurian punch.
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70 Years of “Slipping the Surly Bonds”
Whether you love it or hate it, John Gillespie Magee’s “High Flight” remains the most enduring of aviation poems
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The Gingerbread Man and Other Runaway Foods
The tale of the gingerbread man is part of a genre of folklore about goodies gone wild, specifically “The Fleeing Pancake” stories
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Weekend Events Dec. 9-11: Eternity, Super Science Saturday and Sara Daneshpour
This week, see a critically-lauded Thai film, attend a hands-on day of aviation activities, and hear a live concert pianist perform
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How to Measure the Moon this Weekend
The people of Byzantium viewed a lunar eclipse as a bad omen, but today it’s just another time to do science
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Scandinavians’ Strange Holiday Lutefisk Tradition
People in the Old Country won’t touch the stuff, but immigrants to the American Midwest have celebrated it for generations
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Visions of Empire at the Hirshhorn
A new exhibition combines a seminal Warhol film with a pair of modern responses
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