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For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II In 1978, Soviet geologists prospecting in the wilds of Siberia discovered a family of six, lost in the taiga The Siberian taiga in the Abakan district. Six members of the Lykov family lived in this remote wilderness for more than 40 years—utterly isolated and more than 150 miles from the nearest human set
Banksy melds street-fighting passion and pacifist ardor in his image of a protester whose Molotov cocktail morphs into a bouquet. Pixelbully / Alamy When Time magazine selected the British artist Banksy—graffiti master, painter, activist, filmmaker and all-purpose provocateur—for its list of the world’s 100 most influential people in 2010, he found himself in the company of Barack Obama, Steve Job
Why Japan Is Obsessed With Kentucky Fried Chicken on Christmas Thanks to the successful “Kurisumasu ni wa kentakkii!” (Kentucky for Christmas!) marketing campaign in 1974, Japan can’t get enough KFC on Christmas Day It’s Christmas Eve in Japan. Little boys and girls pull on their coats, the twinkle of anticipation in their eyes. Keeping the tradition alive, they will trek with their families to fe
How Steve Jobs’ Love of Simplicity Fueled A Design Revolution Passionate to the point of obsessive about design, Steve Jobs insisted that his computers look perfect inside and out Steve Jobs’ interest in design began with his love for his childhood home. It was in one of the many working-class subdivisions between San Francisco and San Jose that were developed by builders who churned out inexpensi
Karen L. King, the Hollis professor of divinity, believes that the fragment's 33 words refers to Jesus having a wife © Karen L. King Editor's Note: In June 2016, reporter Ariel Sabar investigated the origins of the "Gospel of Jesus's Wife" for the Atlantic magazine. In response to Sabar's findings about the artifact's provenance, Harvard University scholar Karen King stated that the new informatio
AT THE SMITHSONIAN How a 1924 Immigration Act Laid the Groundwork for Japanese American Incarceration A Smithsonian curator and a historian discuss the links between the Johnson-Reed Act and Executive Order 9066, which rounded up 120,000 Japanese Americans in camps across the Western U.S. Theodore S. Gonzalves
Chart Sources: Meadows, D.H., Meadows, D.L., Randers, J. and Behrens III, W.W. (1972) Linda Eckstein Recent research supports the conclusions of a controversial environmental study released 40 years ago: The world is on track for disaster. So says Australian physicist Graham Turner, who revisited perhaps the most groundbreaking academic work of the 1970s,The Limits to Growth. Written by MIT resear
Top Ten Myths About the Brain When it comes to this complex, mysterious, fascinating organ, what do—and don’t—we know? Repeated in pop culture for a century, the notion that humans only use 10 percent of our brains is false. Scans have shown that much of the brain is engaged even during simple tasks. Allen Bell / Corbis 1. We use only 10 percent of our brains. This one sounds so compelling—a preci
When Did Girls Start Wearing Pink? Every generation brings a new definition of masculinity and femininity that manifests itself in children’s dress Pink and blue arrived as colors for babies in the mid-19th century; yet, the two colors were not promoted as gender signifiers until just before World War I. © Jaroon/iStock Little Franklin Delano Roosevelt sits primly on a stool, his white skirt sprea
The Ten Most Disturbing Scientific Discoveries Scientists have come to some surprising conclusions about the world and our place in it. Are some things just better left unknown? The consequences of burning fossil fuels are already apparent. We have just begun to see the effects of human-induced climate change. AlaskaStock / Corbis Science can be glorious; it can bring clarity to a chaotic world. B
Go for Launch! A rocket-lover’s guide to Florida’s Space Coast.
ShinMaywa’s US-1A, cleansed of the corrosive sea after every mission, continues an ancestral line of flying boats. Tim Wright ON A COLD DAY IN JANUARY 1992, U.S. AIR FORCE CAPTAIN JOHN DOLAN ejected from his damaged F-16 at 25,000 feet and landed in the Pacific Ocean about 700 miles from the Japanese mainland. For the next four hours Dolan lay in a tiny rubber life raft that was tossed and continu
Gobekli Tepe: The World’s First Temple? Predating Stonehenge by 6,000 years, Turkey’s stunning Gobekli Tepe upends the conventional view of the rise of civilization Now seen as early evidence of prehistoric worship, the hilltop site was previously shunned by researchers as nothing more than a medieval cemetery. Berthold Steinhilber Six miles from Urfa, an ancient city in southeastern Turkey, Klaus
Top NASA Photos of All Time 50 indelible images from the first 50 years of spaceflight The Space History Division, National Air and Space Museum
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