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December 2021
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Keeping Faith in Caribou Country
Journey to the far north of Alaska, where the Indigenous communities hunt caribou, the backbone of the region's ecosystem
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Quest for Copper
Beneath a desert in Israel, a scholar and his team are unearthing astonishing new evidence of an advanced society in the time of the biblical Solomon
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The Long Mile
In dogged pursuit of an exotic world record, an engineer heads to the desert with archery equipment you can't get at a sporting goods store
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Reign of Terroir
In France, makers of the odorous food are singing the blues
Departments
A House Full of Ideas
One of Smithsonian’s most storied buildings is reopening with an eye toward humanity’s great potential
The Caregiver
Two hundred years after her birth, her pioneering commitment to public health has only become more salient
Beyond Realism
Raw and affecting depictions of rural life in the early 20th century were strikingly modern
Pictures That Deceive
Today’s video hoaxes can be downright ugly. But image-makers have been fooling viewers from the beginning
Satchmo and Santa
Shortly before he died, the jazz legend offered his own rendition of the classic holiday poem
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