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Smithson: Using “diffusion” as an analogy for education?

From the Castle

Keeping Up

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Letters

Readers Respond to the June Issue

Leopold (top) and Loeb (bottom)

Challenges

To save a wall and understand killers’ motives

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Who Do You Love?

Bo Diddley’s beat changed the course of rock music. And his lyrics evoked a history that reached all the way to Africa

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Blue Ridge Bluegrass

The town of Floyd, Virginia draws jam-ready musicians and some toe-tapping fans

Model for Hotel 2007

From Antony Gormley, Plinth Power

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Q&A: Chris Carter of “The X Files”

The creator and writer behind “The X-Files” reveals his inspiration for the sci-fi series and motivation behind the upcoming film

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Zhang Huan and Groupthink

Flag-Waving Artists

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Our 10th Annual Photo Contest Ends Today at 2 PM EST!

Enter your best shots by November 30th at 2 PM EST, and compete to win our grand prize!

Six days after Betka Tudu's birth, female relatives and neighbors in the West Bengal village of Purulia gathered to bless him and "to protect him from harm's way," says Dey. Born into the Santhal tribe, Betka "unknowingly drew his distant kin closer than ever."

Welcome to Your World

This year’s photo contest winners reflect decidedly international points of view

Navajo frybread cooks in an iron frying pan.

Frybread Recipe

A recipe from Foods of the Americas: Native Recipes and Traditions

A frybread meal at a Navajo powwow.

Frybread

This seemingly simple food is a complicated symbol in Navajo culture

Matthew Gureswitsch

Matthew Gurewitsch on “True Colors”

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Guy Gugliotta on “The Great Human Migration”

Tony Perrottet

Tony Perrottet on “John Muir’s Yosemite”

Peter Ross Range

Peter Ross Range on “Silken Treasure”

The Nightmare (Henry Fuseli, 1781)

Dream On

Why your nightmares hold the key to workplace success

The arduous task of silkworm cultivation involved keeping the tiny silkworm eggs (about 35,000 of them weigh only an ounce) at the correct temperature. Hatched worms then had to be fed mulberry leaves around the clock.

Spin Cycle

Silkworm farming, or sericulture, was a backbreaking job that often required the participation of entire families

The painted replica of a c. 490 B.C. archer (at the Parthenon in Athens) testifies to German archaeologist Vinzenz Brinkmann’s painstaking research into the ancient sculpture’s colors. The original statue came from the Temple of Aphaia on the Greek island of Aegina.

True Colors

Archaeologist Vinzenz Brinkmann insists his eye-popping reproductions of ancient Greek sculptures are right on target

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