Readers respond to the August Issue
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What defines a word? Lexicographers and other experts don’t always agree
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A Q&A with Bobby Sanabria, musician, composer and professor of Latin jazz
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A genealogical surprise led the author to ask: What does it take to be one of the family?
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Photographer Nakki Goranin shows how the once ubiquitous photobooth captured the many faces of 20th-century America
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Ancient gold artifacts from Afghanistan, hidden for more than a decade, dazzle in a new exhibition
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A quick guide to the standouts of the National Museum of Natural History’s “Ocean Hall Class of 2008”
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The renowned coral reef biologist leads Smithsonian’s effort to foster a greater public understanding of the world’s oceans
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An exact replica represents a particular North Atlantic whale
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Watch an erupting underwater volcano
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Tlingit artisans craft a canoe that embodies their culture’s oceangoing past
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Deep Science
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On a morning in a Oaxacan market, photographer Graciela Iturbide made one of the most enduring images of Zapotec life
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