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September 2014
Features
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From Iraq to a Hard Place
Familiar fare—qeema, biryani, dolma—offers comfort to the thousands of refugees starting life over in Phoenix
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Snapshot Nation
A century before drones cruised the skies, American camera hounds made photography a personal art
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What Lies Beneath
A new Smithsonian Channel show reveals groundbreaking research that may explain what really went on there
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A Few of her Favorite Things
In her latest book, the noted artist juxtaposes treasured personal objects with items from the Smithsonian design museum
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Angry Bird
The famed bird now finds itself at the center of a flap over de-extinction
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The Wildest Idea on Earth
The eminent evolutionary biologist E.O. Wilson has an audacious vision for saving Earth from a cataclysmic extinction event
Departments
Waves
The equations that describe these movements are equivalent to those that govern waves
Uneasy Peace
These documents were both a cause and a salve for the fraught relations between the United States and Indian Nations
Rosetta's Stone
The lander will hopefully reveal new truths about what the icy objects actually are