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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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Snow Whites, Asteroids, Bugs and Other Moments of Seeing Double at the Movies
What happens when filmmakers want to make the same film?
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Senator Barry Goldwater Imagines Arizona in the Year 2012
The Republican senator and 1964 presidential candidate predicted the growth of the Sun Belt and envisioned an open border with Mexico
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Tourtière: Québecois for Christmas
For French-Canadians, the must-have holiday food is a spiced meat pie
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Spinops: The Long-Lost Dinosaur
Spinops was one funky looking dinosaur, and its discovery emphasizes the role of museum collections. Who knows what else is waiting to be rediscovered?
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The List: Smithsonian Folkways’ Holiday Music
This holiday season, gather the family to listen to some of your favorite classics from the Folkways collection
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The City Bird and the Country Bird
As in Aesop’s fable, there are advantages and disadvantages for birds living in the city
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