November 2014
Smithsonian magazine delivers trusted and incisive reporting on history, science, nature, culture and travel.
Features
Giant Steps
His robotic lower limbs have already revolutionized life for amputees (including himself). Now he’s envisioning new capabilities for everyone else
The Great Escape
Prison reform activist max kenner champions the transformative power of college degree programs for inmates nationwide
High Wire
Her sky-high sculptures, created from miles of twine and manipulated by cutting-edge technology, transform urban space
Flood of Time
The filmmaker’s brilliant new documentary plunges us into one of the greatest natural disasters in American history
Total Recall
For the first time, two pioneering neuroscientists have implanted a memory of an event that never happened
Cracking the Code
By teaching young girls of color how to program computers, one engineer hopes to change the face of technology
The Long Way Home
In the land of her ancestors, she discovered new terrain—and came away with a different kind of concept album
Cosmic Voyage
How a physicist’s dogged pursuit of a basic question about the cosmos led him to the ends of the earth
The Visionary
How a self-taught inventor’s homemade headset may transform everything from gaming to medical treatment to engineering—and beyond
Departments
The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
The life of the one-time world’s longest suspension bridge, at 50 years old