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Why Thomas Jefferson Meticulously Monitored the Weather Wherever He Went (smithsonianmag.com) 2 points by ohjeez 5 months ago | past Our Search for Life in the Clouds (smithsonianmag.com) 20 points by ulrischa 5 months ago | past | 3 comments Found: 'The Heart of Lincoln,' a Silent Film Thought to Be Lost to History (smithsonianmag.com) 4 points by ohjeez 5 months ago | past Will the Traditional Chinese Medicine Industry End the Pangolin? (smithsonianmag.com) 4 points by rntn 5 months ago | past Alice Hamilton waged a one-woman campaign to get the lead out of everything (smithsonianmag.com) 420 points by Hooke 6 months ago | past | 173 comments New Technology Reveals Details About Indigenous Habitations in Desert Canyons (smithsonianmag.com) 24 points by mooreds 6 months ago | past | 1 comment Astronomers measure gravitational waves rippling across universe via Pulsars (smithsonianmag.com) 14 points by ck2 6 months ago | past Fact of Fiction? The Legend of the QWERTY Keyboard (smithsonianmag.com) 1 point by hwayne 6 months ago | past | 1 comment When Bonobos Know What You Don't, They'll Tell You (smithsonianmag.com) 2 points by pseudolus 6 months ago | past The Oldest Papyrus and What It Can Tell Us About the Great Pyramids (2015) (smithsonianmag.com) 2 points by divbzero 6 months ago | past | 1 comment Why Auroras Are Suddenly Everywhere All at Once (smithsonianmag.com) 3 points by Brajeshwar 6 months ago | past In 1931 Herbert Yardley Exposed Secrets of Early US Code-Breaking Organization (smithsonianmag.com) 3 points by bookofjoe 6 months ago | past | 2 comments A History of Western Eating Utensils, from the Fork to the Spork (smithsonianmag.com) 3 points by lisper 6 months ago | past The History of Chopsticks (smithsonianmag.com) 4 points by lisper 6 months ago | past Microplastics in the human brain (smithsonianmag.com) 245 points by headclone 6 months ago | past | 206 comments Researchers Have Deciphered a Nearly 2k-Year-Old True Crime Papyrus (smithsonianmag.com) 1 point by pseudolus 6 months ago | past The Fantastically Bejeweled Skeletons of Catholicism's Forgotten Martyrs (smithsonianmag.com) 2 points by thunderbong 6 months ago | past Mysterious 'Chirping' Waves Detected 100k Miles Above Earth (smithsonianmag.com) 4 points by Brajeshwar 6 months ago | past Fat Cells Retain a 'Memory' of Obesity, Making It Hard to Lose Weight (smithsonianmag.com) 4 points by paulpauper 6 months ago | past | 2 comments There Is a Sculpture on the Moon Commemorating Fallen Astronauts (2013) (smithsonianmag.com) 3 points by divbzero 6 months ago | past Hundreds Died When Steamship Sank in Northwest in 1875 with Gold Worth Millions (smithsonianmag.com) 5 points by pseudolus 6 months ago | past | 1 comment The Surprising Ingenuity Behind "Goodnight Moon" (2017) (smithsonianmag.com) 2 points by bookofjoe 6 months ago | past Why Footbinding Persisted in China for a Millennium (2015) (smithsonianmag.com) 2 points by bookofjoe 6 months ago | past Earth's Magnetic North Pole Is Shifting Toward Siberia (smithsonianmag.com) 2 points by Brajeshwar 6 months ago | past When Russian Radar Mistook a Norwegian Scientific Rocket for a U.S. Missile (smithsonianmag.com) 3 points by pseudolus 6 months ago | past Ape-Like Human Ancestors Were Vegetarian 3.3M Years Ago in South Africa (smithsonianmag.com) 4 points by Brajeshwar 6 months ago | past Giant, Mysterious Spires Ruled the Earth Long Before Trees Did (smithsonianmag.com) 20 points by Brajeshwar 6 months ago | past | 4 comments Archaeologists Finding Canoes in American Midwest as Old as Great Pyramids (smithsonianmag.com) 4 points by strict9 6 months ago | past 17-Year-Old Designed a Motor That Could Transform the Electric Car Industry (2022) (smithsonianmag.com) 2 points by tejohnso 6 months ago | past Ten Museums Opening Around the World in 2025 (smithsonianmag.com) 2 points by paulpauper 7 months ago | past More

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