New research on how occupants inhabit energy-efficient buildings reveals behaviors designers don’t anticipate—and a slew of bloopers Don’t touch that thermostat. (dr-interior/iStock) By Emily Matchar smithsonian.com November 29, 2017 You’ve built your shiny new high-efficiency building with all the latest energy-saving features: smart thermostats, motion sensor-activated lights, floors designed to absorb heat during the day […]
His work has become the seeds of a tech revolution that is rapidly changing our lives Jony Ive (Brian Bowen Smith) By Rick Tetzeli, Photograph by Brian Bowen Smith Smithsonian Magazine | Subscribe December 2017 When Jony Ive was a boy, his father, a college professor of design and technology and a silversmith, presented him […]
What can we learn from a 12-year-old who’s turning the literary world upside down? Everything Marley Dias (Erin Patrice O’Brien; Wardrobe Stylist: Jocelyn Kaye; Hair/Makeup: Melanie Harris: Prop Stylist: Helen Quinn) By Jacqueline Woodson, Photographs by Erin Patrice O’Brien Smithsonian Magazine | Subscribe December 2017 ONE CHILD like so many children, searched the shelves for herself […]
We talk about Xiaomi’s most affordable smartphone in India — the Redmi 5A — on this week’s episode as reviews editor Jamshed Avari and games editor Rishi Alwani join host Pranay Parab. We begin by talking about the look and feel of the Redmi 5A, since the team got to use the phone for a […]
November on Netflix gave us a new Marvel series in The Punisher – which split critics with its grim depiction of veteran affairs, PTSD, and vengeance – in addition to the second well-received adaptation of a Margaret Atwood book this year, Alias Grace, as well as Sundance hit and awards contender Mississippi-set WWII racial tension […]
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG), Ashes Cricket PC, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 for the Nintendo Switch, and even a new Hearthstone expansion, among others, ensure that December is far from a weak month for video games. There are a number of exciting new releases, and some pretty great games coming to the Games with Gold subscribers this December […]
The bravest new face on television is a Muppet that doesn’t say much. But she speaks volumes about life on the spectrum Sesame Street & Julia (Courtesy Sesame Workshop) By Ron Suskind Smithsonian Magazine | Subscribe December 2017 Before we get to the matters at hand—including the ways in which we humans judge one another […]
Gary Steinberg defied convention when he began implanting living cells inside the brains of patients who had suffered from a stroke Gary Steinberg (Jonathan Sprague) By Kara Platoni, Photograph by Jonathan Sprague Smithsonian Magazine | Subscribe December 2017 The day she had a stroke, Sonia Olea Coontz, a 31-year-old from Long Beach, California, was getting […]
Stanford researchers claim they can detect the lung infection more accurately than an experienced radiologist. Some radiologists aren’t so sure. Stanford radiologist Matthew Lungren, left, meets with graduate students Jeremy Irvin and Pranav Rajpurkar to discuss the results of detections made by the algorithm. (L.A. Cicero) By Emily Matchar smithsonian.com November 28, 2017 Pneumonia puts […]
Can you feel that disturbance in the Force? Star Wars: The Last Jedi is almost here. The eighth chapter of the massively popular space saga – from director Rian Johnson – will take us back to a galaxy far, far away, picking up right where we left off with Mark Hamill’s aging Luke Skywalker and […]