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Buzz Words • Even in the age of autofill, America is still in love with the centuries-old spelling bee
How to Win a Spelling Bee • EIGHT SECRETS OF CHAMPIONSHIP ORTHOGRAPHY
TORCH SONG • A new museum sheds light on America’s quintessential statue
Get Thee to a Monastery!
A Wing and a Prayer • AN INGENIOUS BUILDING PLAN FROM THE MIDDLE AGES COMBINES THE SACRED AND THE MUNDANE
Seeing Red • HOW SCIENTISTS ARE RECAPTURING THE MAGIC OF A BELOVED, LONG-LOST TOMATO
YOU CALL THAT MUSIC? • It’s not your imagination. They really don’t write songs the way they used to
Catching Cooties • WHY A 100-YEAR-OLD GAME IS STILL SPREADING ACROSS OUR PLAYGROUNDS
WHEN WOMEN HAD COOTIES
the cave man cometh • Revolutionary discoveries in archaeology show that Neanderthals, long maligned as knuckle-dragging brutes, deserve a new place in the human story
AT THE Edge OF THE Ice • DEEP INSIDE THE ARCTIC CIRCLE, INUIT HUNTERS EMBRACE MODERN TECHNOLOGY BUT PRESERVE A TRADITIONAL WAY OF LIFE
A MY STERY IN THE FAMILY
THE LAST OF THE GREAT AMERICAN HOBOS • HOP A TRAIN TO IOWA, WHERE PROUD VAGABONDS GATHER EVERY SUMMER TO HAIL THE NEW KING AND QUEEN OF THE RAILS
The Longest Hop • The true story of the railroad that spanned the nation
ask smithsonian • YOU’VE GOT QUESTIONS, WE’VE GOT EXPERTS