January 2008
Smithsonian magazine delivers trusted and incisive reporting on history, science, nature, culture and travel.
Features
Danger Zones
Warning: David Maisel's aerial landscapes may be hazardous to your assumptions
Thinking Like a Monkey
What do our primate cousins know and when do they know it? Researcher Laurie Santos is trying to read their minds
Letters from Vincent
Never-before-exhibited correspondence from van Gogh to a protégé displays a thoughtful exacting side of the artist
The Lost Fort of Columbus
On his voyage to the Americas in 1492, the explorer built a small fort somewhere in the Caribbean. A construction contractor from Washington State has spent decades trying to find it
The Smithsonian Life List
We've traveled the globe and compiled a "life list" of places to visit before taking the ultimate trip to the great beyond
Departments
The Coldest Place in the Universe
Physicists in Massachusetts come to grips with the lowest possible temperature: absolute zero
Sound and Fury
Norman Mailer's anger and towering ego propelled-and undermined-his prodigious output
Rasta Revealed
A reclamation of African identity evolved into a worldwide cultural, religious and political movement
Explorer I Satellite
In 1958, Explorer 1 launched America's response to the USSR's Sputnik
Norman Foster
Architect norman foster designed the glass canopy at the Smithsonian's Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture. He spoke with Jess Blumberg.