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Comfort Foods Aren’t Magic, But Memory Might Be
On National Comfort Food Day (yeah it’s a thing), dig into the powers of food and how it makes us feel
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An exhibition in Boston delves into historical maps to show how the Bard saw the wider world
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These Photos Bring the Women’s Movement to Life
Catching the Wave dramatizes the large and small moments of second-wave feminism
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Ambitious New Public Art Project Will Turn the Thames Into an Illuminated Canvas
When Illuminated River launches in 2018, it will be the biggest such project ever undertaken
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Why Vegetarians Hate the U.K.’s New £5 Note
The new currency uses a polymer that contains some animal fat, and it turns out at least 24 other nations use the same product
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For 50 Years, This Swedish City Has Celebrated Christmas Season With a Giant Straw Goat
And most of the time it meets a fiery end
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Unesco Just Added Belgian Beer to Its Heritage List
The move celebrates the tiny country’s huge love of suds
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Goodbye, Barrow, Alaska. Hello, Utqiagvik
The most northerly city has officially reverted back to the Inupiaq name for the settlement on the Arctic sea
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The Beloved, Baffling ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Was Rejected By 26 Publishers
Author Madeleine L’Engle, whose birthday is today, almost quit writing before it was published
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Researchers Find Word Optimism Is Linked to National Misery
Even Pollyanna changes her tune in times of war and economic hardship
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Why Xenophobia Is Dictionary.com’s Word of the Year
The word derived from Greek roots captured the zeitgeist of 2016
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There Are as Many Names for French Toast as Ways to Cook It
People have been enjoying the eggy bread treat since Roman times
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New Doping Tests Are Turning Past Runners-Up Into Olympic Medalists
Over 75 medal winners from the 2008 and 2012 games have been busted for doping, scrambling the Olympic record books
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Police Spray Dakota Access Pipeline Protesters With Water and Tear Gas in Freezing Temperatures
Latest clash comes over access to a barricaded bridge
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What Pilgrims Heard When They Arrived in America
They came to America seeking religious freedom, but what did their prayers, and those of the local Native Americans, sound like?
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World’s Largest Herd of Origami Elephants Takes Over the Bronx Zoo
People around the world folded the paper pachyderms to raise awareness of the elephants’ plight
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Why a Congressional Commission Wants a National Women’s History Museum
Will the American Museum of Women’s History ever become reality?
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Google Makes Ledger Art to Celebrate Legendary Native American Author James Welch
In an exclusive interview with Smithsonian.com, artist Sophie Diao talks about what inspired today’s Google Doodle
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One of Rome’s Most Famous Sculptures Has Been Vandalized
Bernini’s “Elephant and Obelisk” is missing part of its tusk
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Five Things to Know About Gwen Ifill
The late, great reporter turned curiosity into a career that changed journalism
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