/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/rita_coolidge_smithsonian.jpg)
What Makes Rita Coolidge the Musician for Every Era
Her collaborations with Joe Cocker and Kris Kristofferson made her famous, but hear her live at two free concerts in New York City and D.C.
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/Surprising-Science-Shark-Week.jpg)
Top Ten Stories About Sharks Since the Last Shark Week
Shark tourism, cannibalistic shark embryos, wetsuits designed to camouflage from sharks and more
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/73/00/7300eb5f-eee8-45fd-b988-d67a29c0e4cb/beerundercover1.jpg)
Find The Beer: A Trail of Stashed Bottles From Alaska to California
Traveling the West Coast? Like beer? Then consider pulling over at these highway locations from Alaska to California and finding the bottles of beer
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/20130802110035mayes_cr.jpg)
Landscape Through a Car Window, Darkly
A new exhibition presents 1970s photography that challenged the traditional American landscape
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/Collage-Psychedelic-bacteria.jpg)
Colonies of Growing Bacteria Make Psychedelic Art
Israeli physicist Eshel Ben-Jacob uses bacteria as an art medium, shaping colonies in petri dishes into bold patterns
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/201308020940451933-map-470.jpg)
The Secret to National Geographic’s Maps Is an 80-Year-Old Font
With a little ingenuity, a 1930s cartographer left his mark on the society
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/Surprising-Science-Camping-morning.jpg)
A Week of Camping Can Turn You Into a Morning Person
Getting away from artificial light and basking in sunlight can reset your internal clock, new research shows
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/Surprising-Science-Clime-Change-Conflict.jpg)
Climate Change Could Increase Armed Conflicts By 50 Percent Worldwide
A new study finds that across cultures, time and space, we consistently see more violence as temperatures rise and rainfall becomes more erratic
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/20130801121050seeger_cr.jpg)
Give Peace a Listen with Smithsonian Folkways Magazine
The new issue covers peace songs and spoken word from around the world
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/Past-Imperfect-Friedrich-Engels.png)
How Friedrich Engels’ Radical Lover Helped Him Father Socialism
Mary Burns exposed the capitalist’s son to the plight of the working people of Manchester
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/20130801091052beer_470.jpg)
What Caused the Death of American Brewing?
American breweries are back on the rise, after a near century long decline almost spelled their doom
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/20130801080106sky-city-2-small.jpg)
The Skyscraper of the Future May Be Built Like Legos
The world’s cities are in the midst of a skyscraper boom. And one growing trend is to connect pre-fab floors like Lego pieces
:focal(320x160:321x161)/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/4f/4d/4f4dece2-8851-4abe-ad99-ce81d84adaa6/gettyimages-1461426794.jpg)
The Science of Champagne, the Bubbling Wine Created By Accident
There’s a lot more than meets the eye when it comes to the spirit’s trademark fizziness
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/20130731010043Banjo-cover1.jpg)
Finger-pickin’ Good: American Banjo Classics
Co-producer and banjo extraordinaire Greg C. Adams talks about Classic Banjo, a collection of American tunes that show off modern banjo’s diverse roots
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/20130731123159mantis-shrimp-vs-octopus.jpg)
VIDEO: Mantis Shrimp vs. Octopus
Watch as the popular crustacean gets snared by its predator’s tentacles. Will it survive?
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/20130731112159tiger-470x251.jpg)
Forest Corridors Help Link Tiger Populations in India
Some tigers trek the human-filled landscape between nature preserves to find mates, but such opportunities to ensure genetic diversity are getting rarer
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/Surprising-Science-Pregnant-child-obesity.jpg)
Could Over-Snacking While Pregnant Predispose Children to Be Obese?
Women who constantly binge on junk food while pregnant might pass their penchant for sweet and fatty food on to their children, a new study suggests
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/20130730012037site-mcdonalds.jpg)
Would You Like Arches With That? When Famous Architects Design McDonalds
Franchises of the fast food behemoth become roadside art
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/20130730100040ja_cr.jpg)
Men Wore Corsets and 7 Other Unknown Things About the World of Jane Austen
Exploring the life and times of the beloved English novelist
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/20130729023105KingSalmon2.jpg)
Your Guide to Tasting the Many Species of Pacific Salmon
From dogs to humpies to kings, the author tastes and discusses the five main species of Pacific salmon
Page 12 of 337