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Scientific Illustrations: Your Go-To Guides for Halloween Costumes
The details are what separate a good outfit from an amazing one. The images in the Biodiversity Heritage Library can help you make the leap
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Lewis Lapham’s Antidote to the Age of BuzzFeed
With his erudite Quarterly, the legendary Harper’s editor aims for an antidote to digital-age ignorance
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Did Tyrannosaurus Ever Battle Triceratops?
We love to imagine Tyrannosaurus fighting Triceratops to the death, but did such battles ever happen?
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Congratulations to (drum roll…) Jeffrey Davidson!
I'm pleased to announce the winner of the Smithsonian's Great American History Puzzle -- and give away the answer to the in-magazine puzzle that opened the contest and unlocked the puzzle website.
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The Natural Beauty of Math
The Geometrization Theorem may not sound the sexiest, but it reveals geometry’s innate splendor
November 01, 2012
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Mr. Lincoln Goes to Hollywood
Steven Spielberg, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Tony Kushner talk about what it takes to wrestle an epic presidency into a feature film
November 2012 Issue
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Turning Your Hand Into a Remote Control
A Microsoft prototype called Digits could put the power to control everything from TV screens to smart phones in a device you wear on your wrist
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PHOTOS: The Distressing Worldwide Boom in Cosmetic Surgery
Photographer Zed Nelson traveled the world documenting how body improvement has practically become a new religion
October 2012 Issue
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Political Animals: Republican Elephants and Democratic Donkeys
Politicians and parties may flip-flop but for more than 100 years, the political iconography of the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant has remained unchanged
October 24, 2012
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The Witches of Halloween Past
Sexy or scary, the outfit has cast a spell on costume wearers going back many years
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Scientists Use Cadaver Hands to Study the Dangers of Pumpkin Carving
A rigorous experiment compared pumpkin-carving tools to determine the safest way to carve a pumpkin
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And the Winner Is: 2012 Inductees to the Robot Hall of Fame
Much to our chagrin, Rosey did not make it. But who did?
October 25, 2012
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Fossilized Shoulder Reveals Early Hominids Climbed Trees
The shoulder blades of a 3.3-million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis child suggest the species spent at least some time in the treetops
October 25, 2012
| By Erin Wayman
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