/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/dd/53/dd53ced0-9c9e-4549-becb-ff47943723e5/42-18837359.jpg)
Netflix Has Figured Out The Exact Moment Viewers Get Addicted to a Show
It doesn’t take many episodes
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/d8/77/d8771a1a-14f6-4821-ba86-f44c198dc7a5/macaca_nigra_self-portrait_large.jpg)
PETA Wants a Selfie-Snapping Monkey to be Granted Copyright to its Photo
PETA Wants a Selfie-Snapping Monkey to be Granted Copyright to its Photo
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/d1/69/d1697e0d-d440-48bc-b072-7d70edda406a/42-27699487.jpg)
How Doughnut-Loving Cops Became a Stereotype
A sugar-sweet symbol for beat cops around the country
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/6f/f1/6ff1d3a6-6a71-4b26-b9f2-c8b533655056/42-48068467.jpg)
Crimean Officials Are Suing Putin for Drinking a 240-Year-Old Bottle of Wine
Putin and Berlusconi opened up a world of trouble along with a vintage bottle of booze
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/51/19/51197fdd-fa06-41f8-a47d-168d745e6a9f/42-65375859.jpg)
People are Leaving Secret Letters to Fellow Fans in Harry Potter Books
#PotterItForward was designd to warm the hearts of future readers
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/25/12/25121fdc-154b-4915-b4d7-a1d53921eb63/samuel_l_clemens_1909.jpg)
Mark Twain Was not a fan of the Mona Lisa
“The complexion was bad; in fact it was not even human,” he wrote of Da Vinci’s mysterious smiling lady
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/e3/c3/e3c36c87-577f-4e34-bfdf-934be0874564/42-26763693.jpg)
A Brief History of Awareness Ribbons
Emmy Awards attendees sported green ribbons this year. But can ribbons really affect climate change?
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/d2/e9/d2e9f85f-2aac-47cb-832b-794ecbf191f0/game_over.jpg)
Preserving Old Computer Games Is Harder Than it Seems
There’s an art and a science to resurrecting now-defunct PC games
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/db/4a/db4a96cb-029a-4b91-ba9f-9a2816a64136/42-76298225.jpg)
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/d9/87/d9874544-76a9-41ea-9b95-337298b85f2a/42-36726188.jpg)
It Is Officially Legal to Ritually Kill Chickens on the Streets of New York City
A judge ruled that there was not enough evidence that the practice was a public nuisance
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/76/3c/763cb353-ab87-4457-a491-caec139ec0e1/screen_shot_2015-09-17_at_112039_am.png)
This Camera Refuses to Take Clichéd Photos
An art project demands a unique perspective of its user
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/5e/73/5e73e7c2-0272-4f4d-bf19-03ddb497c8f3/42-16944177.jpg)
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/18/54/18547ee6-454b-4a57-9d2d-791201f4d06e/42-21091066.jpg)
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/90/6f/906f4c1c-0f9c-4f5f-9a8a-07af201cf1ff/42-53278270.jpg)
Here Are the Winners of Getty Images’ First-Ever Instagram Grant
The photographers come from Bangladesh, Brazil and Russia
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/9e/7e/9e7eade3-b75b-4abc-933c-a2c72d62df6e/42-32303710.jpg)
A One-of-a-Kind Museum Was Just Lost in California’s Wildfires
The JKL Museum of Telephony featured hundreds of old-fashioned phones
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/cb/8d/cb8da687-a1e6-4b71-b985-844e768ea6e2/img_0146_erwinmartens.jpg)
There Are About 600,000 Dahlias on These Van Gogh Themed Floats
The colorful floats can be covered in up to one million dahlias apiece.
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/d4/ae/d4ae620b-93ae-445a-9c3d-2e6e5b2010e0/42-63788258.jpg)
This Computer Can Track How Fashion Spreads From the Runway to the Street
Researchers created an algorithm to recognize and analyze fashion on the runway and in the street
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/b0/7a/b07adcde-2620-4586-9fd6-b08d2a8eea8b/1024px-apocalypse_vasnetsov.jpg)
People Have Always Been Obsessed with the End of the World
Since ancient times, art and fiction love to play in the fertile ground of the apocalypse, but it hasn’t always been healthy
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/3a/22/3a224c72-385a-4a51-b4c9-809cdc2908d8/42-26117623.jpg)
The World’s Rarest Silk Is Made of Clam Spit
Only one person in the world is thought to be able to dive for, spin and create rare “sea silk”
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/86/23/86236e7b-7f41-43e0-b208-b8ad0557892b/m1911_a1_pistol.jpg)
Six American States Have Official Guns
Rifles and handguns represent some states alongside official flowers, snacks and birds.
Page 238 of 286