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What We Love This Week, Volume CXXI

China Knows How To Do Crowds Surely, you remember the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, a staggering visual display that turned crowds into art. Well, the Chinese people have not lost that skill set in the years since. Whether the mass coordination is precise out of necessity (military...

By John Kuroski • May 8, 2015

What We Love This Week, Volume CXXI

China Knows How To Do Crowds Surely, you remember the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, a staggering visual display that turned crowds into art. Well, the Chinese people have not lost that skill set in the years since. Whether the mass coordination is precise out of necessity (military...

By John Kuroski • May 8, 2015

Photographer Brings Mongolia’s Disappearing Reindeer People Right To Your Desktop

Mining and urbanization are bringing an end to the Dukha, or what many call Mongolia's "reindeer people."

By Erin Kelly • May 3, 2015

Photographer Brings Mongolia’s Disappearing Reindeer People Right To Your Desktop

Mining and urbanization are bringing an end to the Dukha, or what many call Mongolia's "reindeer people."

By Erin Kelly • May 3, 2015

What We Love This Week, Volume CXX

Winners Of The 2014 Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Announced This year, Smithsonian Magazine editors received over 26,500 entries for their annual photo contest. Just this week, the magazine announced 2014’s winners in each competition category, being: the Natural World, Travel, People, Americana, Altered Images and Mobile. Given the high quality...

By Savannah Cox • May 1, 2015

What We Love This Week, Volume CXX

Winners Of The 2014 Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Announced This year, Smithsonian Magazine editors received over 26,500 entries for their annual photo contest. Just this week, the magazine announced 2014’s winners in each competition category, being: the Natural World, Travel, People, Americana, Altered Images and Mobile. Given the high quality...

By Savannah Cox • May 1, 2015

Childhood Homelessness, A Hidden American Problem

Homelessness is a national problem in the United States, and one whose victims are often hidden. They aren’t just the haggard Vietnam vet or the disabled man on the corner asking for assistance; they’re the children and families who couch surf, bounce between friends’ homes, live in cars, subsist in...

By Susan Sims • Apr 29, 2015

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Childhood Homelessness, A Hidden American Problem

Homelessness is a national problem in the United States, and one whose victims are often hidden. They aren’t just the haggard Vietnam vet or the disabled man on the corner asking for assistance; they’re the children and families who couch surf, bounce between friends’ homes, live in cars, subsist in...

By Susan Sims • April 29, 2015

What We Love This Week, Volume CXIX

Our Screen-Obsessed World Ever heard of nomophobia? Even if you haven’t come across the name, chances are you already know what it is. The ailment, or fear of being without one’s smartphone, affects a sizable chunk of sampled populations, and its consequences are just beginning to be studied. What we...

By Savannah Cox • Apr 24, 2015

What We Love This Week, Volume CXIX

Our Screen-Obsessed World Ever heard of nomophobia? Even if you haven’t come across the name, chances are you already know what it is. The ailment, or fear of being without one’s smartphone, affects a sizable chunk of sampled populations, and its consequences are just beginning to be studied. What we...

By Savannah Cox • April 24, 2015

21 Stunning Photos Of Abandoned Bulgarian Towns

The state of Bulgaria cut its ties with the USSR and communist ideologies in the late 20th century, but its memory remains in the form of architecture.

By Erin Kelly • Apr 23, 2015

21 Stunning Photos Of Abandoned Bulgarian Towns

The state of Bulgaria cut its ties with the USSR and communist ideologies in the late 20th century, but its memory remains in the form of architecture.

By Erin Kelly • April 23, 2015

Hollywood’s Old Loves: Vintage Celebrity Couples That Time Almost Forgot

Helen Mirren and Liam Neeson? Anjelica Huston and Jack Nicholson? These are the old loves that celebs want to forget and we love to remember.

By Savannah Cox • Apr 22, 2015

Hollywood’s Old Loves: Vintage Celebrity Couples That Time Almost Forgot

Helen Mirren and Liam Neeson? Anjelica Huston and Jack Nicholson? These are the old loves that celebs want to forget and we love to remember.

By Savannah Cox • April 22, 2015

What We Love This Week, Volume CXVIII

Inside The Vrontados Rocket War What’s religion without a little ritualistic conflict? Taking place in Vrontados, Greece over the past 125 years, two Greek Orthodox Churches have engaged in what is known as Rouketopolemos, or a “rocket war”. The rival churches celebrate by firing thousands of homemade rockets toward one...

By Savannah Cox • Apr 17, 2015

What We Love This Week, Volume CXVIII

Inside The Vrontados Rocket War What’s religion without a little ritualistic conflict? Taking place in Vrontados, Greece over the past 125 years, two Greek Orthodox Churches have engaged in what is known as Rouketopolemos, or a “rocket war”. The rival churches celebrate by firing thousands of homemade rockets toward one...

By Savannah Cox • April 17, 2015

What We Love This Week, Volume CXVII

Stunning Photos Of A Camel Train Across Cable Beach, Australia With picturesque views of the Indian Ocean and a virtually flat swath of white, sandy beach, Broome, Australia’s Cable Beach has attracted tourists for decades. Add a camel ride at sunset, where their silhouettes are reflected by the wet sand...

By Savannah Cox • Apr 10, 2015

What We Love This Week, Volume CXVII

Stunning Photos Of A Camel Train Across Cable Beach, Australia With picturesque views of the Indian Ocean and a virtually flat swath of white, sandy beach, Broome, Australia’s Cable Beach has attracted tourists for decades. Add a camel ride at sunset, where their silhouettes are reflected by the wet sand...

By Savannah Cox • April 10, 2015

The Women Who Powered World War 2, All In Color

We recognize them from ‘Rosie the Riveter’ recruitment posters, but the female workforce of World War II provided us with much more than colorful kitsch. More than six million women joined the workforce during the war, and by 1942, the estimated proportion of jobs deemed acceptable for women shot up...

By Erin Kelly • Apr 5, 2015

The Women Who Powered World War 2, All In Color

We recognize them from ‘Rosie the Riveter’ recruitment posters, but the female workforce of World War II provided us with much more than colorful kitsch. More than six million women joined the workforce during the war, and by 1942, the estimated proportion of jobs deemed acceptable for women shot up...

By Erin Kelly • April 5, 2015

Vintage NASA Photography Highlights Our Space Legacy

Due to relatively recent funding cuts at NASA, it seems that interest in and support of space travel is at an all-time low. It hasn’t always been this way, though. The Cold War helped convene scientists, politicians and security specialists and focus attention to the stars. The developments that followed...

By Erin Kelly • Apr 1, 2015

Vintage NASA Photography Highlights Our Space Legacy

Due to relatively recent funding cuts at NASA, it seems that interest in and support of space travel is at an all-time low. It hasn’t always been this way, though. The Cold War helped convene scientists, politicians and security specialists and focus attention to the stars. The developments that followed...

By Erin Kelly • April 1, 2015

What We Love This Week, Volume CXIV

Photo Proof That Victorians Weren’t Always Serious Modern society doesn’t tend to look back too fondly on the Victorian era. We talk of repression and imperial conquest, and how these rigid social mores have endured to the present. But as we’ve recently unpacked, much of the “face” of Victorianism was...

By Savannah Cox • Mar 20, 2015

What We Love This Week, Volume CXIV

Photo Proof That Victorians Weren’t Always Serious Modern society doesn’t tend to look back too fondly on the Victorian era. We talk of repression and imperial conquest, and how these rigid social mores have endured to the present. But as we’ve recently unpacked, much of the “face” of Victorianism was...

By Savannah Cox • March 20, 2015