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How Memphis Created the Nation’s Most Innovative Public Library | Innovation | Smithsonian Magazine
You can play the ukulele, learn photography or record a song in a top-flight studio. You can also check out a book By Richard Grant, Photographs by Ariel Cobbert The Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library, a building of pale concrete and greenish glass, rises four stories in midtown Memphis. Walking through its automatic doors on…
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Rediscovered Medieval Manuscript Offers New Twist on Arthurian Legend | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine
By Livia Gershon, Daily Correspondent, September 17, 2021 Thirteenth-century manuscript fragments discovered by chance at a library in Bristol, England, have revealed an alternative version of the story of Merlin, the famed wizard of Arthurian legend. A team of scholars translated the writings, known as the Bristol Merlin, from Old French to English and traced…
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Smithsonian Artifacts That Tell the Story of 9/11 | At the Smithsonian | Smithsonian Magazine
From a Pentagon rescuer’s uniform to a Flight 93 crew log, these objects commemorate the 20th anniversary of a national tragedy By Meilan Solly, SMITHSONIANMAG.COM | Sept. 8, 2021, 8:43 a.m. Following the tragedies that took place on September 11, 2001, curators at the Smithsonian Institution recognized the urgency of documenting this unprecedented moment in…
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Puppies Are Born Ready to Communicate With Humans | Science | Smithsonian Magazine
A new study finds very young dogs with little human contact can understand pointing gestures—and that the ability has a strong genetic basis By Alex Fox smithsonianmag.comJune 3, 2021 Dog owners might not be too impressed when they’re able to point out a fallen piece of chicken or a thrown stick to their pooch, but…
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Why Ecologists Are Haunted by the Rapid Growth of Ghost Forests | Science | Smithsonian Magazine
A study in North Carolina of dying trees may represent a foreboding preview of whatmay come to coastal ecosystems worldwide By Jim Morrison, smithsonianmag.com, May 17, 2021 For years, Emily Ury traversed North Carolina’s coastal roads, studying patches of skeletal trees slain by rising seas that scientists call “ghost forests.” Killed by intruding saltwater along…
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50 Things We’ve Learned About Earth Since 1970 | At the Smithsonian | Smithsonian Magazine
On April 22, 1970, Americans pledged environmental action for the planet. Here’s what scientists and we, the global community, have done since By Smithsonian magazine SMITHSONIANMAG.COM | April 22, 2020, 7:20 a.m When Gaylord Nelson stepped up to the podium in April 1970, his voice rang with powerful purpose. The Wisconsin senator set forth a…
