March 2014
Smithsonian magazine delivers trusted and incisive reporting on history, science, nature, culture and travel.
Features
Kasparov’s Gambit
The great chess champion plots his next moves in the games of global politics and computer intelligence
Reindeer Games
Ecologists are racing across the ice to find out how climate change will affect Arctic ungulates
Journey into the Kingdom of the Spirits
Michael Rockefeller’s fate has been a mystery for more than 50 years
Revenge of the Vikings
After decades of scholarship that emphasized their kinder, gentler side, the bad boys of the North are back with a vengeance
Buzzed
What is the most addictive quiz show in the history of television?
Flight Club
This month hundreds of thousands of sandhill cranes will converge in North America’s greatest wildlife spectacle
Star Power
His blockbuster show “Cosmos” is back. And his weird brilliance shines in a new Library of Congress archive of his papers. Yet Carl Sagan, who did more than anyone to make us dream of extraterrestrial civilizations, would be disappointed to know that we still haven’t found life out there