Smithsonian - 12.2019

Rakhine workers uncover temple monuments long smothered by vegetation. Such restoration ef- forts have since been halted by the ...

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On the terraces of the Kothaung temple, an elaborate array of miniature stupas, or dome-shaped shrines, replicate the structure’ ...

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December 2019 | SMITHSONIAN.COM 43 dossier, with the goal of restoring as much of it as possible. We want to bring it back to li ...

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2019 ingenuity OUR 8TH ANNUAL CELEBRATION OF THE CREATIVE BREAKTHROUGHS SHAPING THE WORLD Imaging a black hole required telescop ...

46 SMITHSONIAN.COM | December 2019 was when she posed herself the challenge that her 15-year- old self was given during those co ...

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48 SMITHSONIAN.COM | December 2019 ’M IN REDMOND, WASHINGTON, in a room at Microsoft, pondering an all-terrain vehicle that has ...

Microsoft, Kipman is famous for pushing these sorts of oracular, sci-fi visions. “It’s kind of inevi- table,” he shrugs. “It’s a ...

Kipman seated beside a friendly holographic fox (added by Mic- rosoft) to sim- ulate the view from behind his HoloLens 2 headset ...

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OTHING MAKES A PERSON FEEL more like a lonesome cowboy than being forced to stare down the open highway of the rest of his life. ...

December 2019 | SMITHSONIAN.COM 53 A video of ele- mentary school students singing the breakout hit with Lil Nas X went viral in ...

54 SMITHSONIAN.COM | December 2019 PHYSICAL SCIENCES Sheperd Doeleman and the Event Horizon Telescope Team Captured the first im ...

The Event Hori- zon Telescope drew on the work of hundreds of scientists at more than 75 institutions all over the world. Some o ...

56 SMITHSONIAN.COM | December 2019 Einstein, but also provided a glimpse of what may lay beyond the universe we know. Stitched t ...

MY SHERALD was living in Baltimore and fi nishing up a graduate degree in fi ne art when, at age 30, she was diag- nosed with a ...

58 SMITHSONIAN.COM | December 2019 As I work, I’ll have [the Netfl ix series] “Chef ’s Table” playing in the background, because ...