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How a Federally-Regulated Safety Message Distinguished a Brand
If you’ve flown Virgin America, you’ve seen its distinctive safety video. But what’s the story behind it?
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Beyond Kung Fu: 5 Movies From Asia to Catch
Will the recent purchase of AMC theaters by a Chinese billionaire mean more Asian films in theaters? Likely not, but here are some to watch in the meantime
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Remembering Doc Watson, Folk Guitar Hero (1923-2012)
Smithsonian Folkways honors the blind folk musician who died yesterday at the age of 89
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Meat is From Mars, Peaches are From Venus
It might be predictable that hamburger is considered a masculine food, but what about rabbit or orange juice?
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Travelers’ Tales in Utah’s Canyonlands
The trail is rough and hard to follow, marked chiefly by cairns; water is intermittent; and if something bad happens help is not at hand
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The Fantastic Gliding Stegosaurus
Stegosaurus was as aerodynamic as a brick, but one writer thought the prickly dinosaur used its huge plates for gliding
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Chimpanzees Sleep in Trees to Escape the Humidity
Making nests in trees keeps chimps comfortable and safe from nighttime predators
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Predictions for Educational TV in the 1930s
Before it became known as the “idiot box,” television was seen as the best hope for bringing enlightenment to the American people
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Judging an Airline by its Uniform
What flight attendant uniforms say about airline brand identity, cultural attitudes, and passenger psychology
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Cracking the Code of the Human Genome
Quick and Cheap DNA Sequencing On the Horizon?
A new technique reads DNA base by base by threading it through a tiny pore
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The Genome That Keeps on Giving
When scientists mapped the human genetic blueprint, people said it would change medicine because we’d be able to get clues about our future health
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Sleep Like a Pauper, Eat Like a King
Between grocery stores, wine shops, artisan bakeries and farm stands, I regain each calorie I burn in style and taste
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Birds Have Juvenile Dinosaur Skulls
The peculiar way birds grow up got its start among feathery non-avian dinosaurs
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Amy Henderson: The Shock of the Old
For generations immersed in social media, culture means a different thing than it did in 1940
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“I Was Looking Forward to a Quiet Old Age”
Instead, Etta Shiber, a widow and former Manhattan housewife, helped smuggle stranded Allied soldiers out of Nazi-occupied in Paris
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Big Things Ahead… But Keep Your Shirt On
Americans in the 1940s had wondrous expectations about the post-war world. Meet one author who advised them to curb their enthusiasm
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Social Sauropods?
A bonebed in Argentina with three sauropods of different sizes adds new evidence that some of these dinosaurs were social creatures
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A Restored Version of Let There Be Light Available Online
Here’s your chance to see a haunting and long suppressed WWII documentary about PTSD
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Vote To Put An Icon in the American History Museum
From now through Friday, you have the chance to help decide which icon of American History will be featured in a new portrait by artist Robert Weingarten
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