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| 2018 | | The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 81 points | 2 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 2011 | | The Body on Somerton Beach (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 77 points | 9 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 2014 | | What Emotion Goes Viral the Fastest? (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 72 points | 6 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2013 | | A potato battery can light up a room for over a month (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 71 points | 3 years ago with 69 comments |
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| 2015 | | 1960s Mouse Utopias Led to Grim Predictions for Future of Humanity (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 69 points | 2 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 2010 | | Myths of the American Revolution (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 67 points | 9 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 2013 | | Into the Cave of Chile’s Witches (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 64 points | 5 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 2017 | | How the 1918 Flu Spread Across America (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 64 points | 5 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 2014 | | Some Chimps Are Putting Grass in Their Ears (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 61 points | 7 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 2017 | | Why Did Greenland’s Vikings Vanish? (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 60 points | 4 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 2016 | | Inventing the Beach: The unnatural history of a natural place (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 57 points | 3 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 2015 | | What the World's Oldest Papyrus Can Tell Us About the Great Pyramids (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 57 points | 6 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 2016 | | A Brief History of Children Sent Through the Mail (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 56 points | 3 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 2017 | | A spoonful of sugar helps the radioactive oatmeal go down (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 56 points | 2 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2014 | | Academics argue over how many people read and cite their papers (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 56 points | 7 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 2019 | | ‘The Little Mermaid’ Was Way More Subversive Than You Realized (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 53 points | 3 years ago with 30 comments |
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| 2013 | | It’s Not Just You: Garfield Is Not Meant to Be Funny (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 52 points | 3 years ago with 59 comments |
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| 2012 | | Was Vincent van Gogh color blind? (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 52 points | 1 year ago with 104 comments |
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| 2016 | | The Fantastic Mr. Dahl (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 51 points | 4 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 2013 | | Why Was Benjamin Franklin’s Basement Filled with Skeletons? (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 49 points | 3 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 2016 | | New DNA analysis shows how cats spread around the world (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 46 points | 1 year ago with 24 comments |
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| 2017 | | An Archaeologist Challenges Mainstream Scientific Thinking (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 45 points | 5 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 2006 | | An ancient Greek calendar was ahead of its time (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 45 points | 5 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 2011 | | Charles Proteus Steinmetz, the Wizard of Schenectady (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 45 points | 3 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 2017 | | When Carl Sagan Warned the World About Nuclear Winter (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 44 points | 3 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 2012 | | Japan Is Obsessed with Kentucky Fried Chicken on Christmas (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 43 points | 8 years ago with 47 comments |
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| 2013 | | How to Save a Dying Language (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 43 points | 4 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Librarian of Congress Weighs in on Why Card Catalogs Matter (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 42 points | 6 months ago with 8 comments |
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| 2012 | | Antonovs in America (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 42 points | 2 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 2013 | | Sounds of 1950s New York City and More from Folkways Magazine (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 41 points | 4 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 2012 | | The gruesome history of eating corpses as medicine (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 27 points | 1 year ago with 16 comments |
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| 2019 | | Study finds insects can experience chronic pain (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 19 points | 1 year ago with 0 comments |
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| 2015 | | The Bar Code (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 14 points | 1 year ago with 4 comments |
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| 2016 | | Lyndon Johnson’s Campaign by Helicopter (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 13 points | 1 year ago with 5 comments |
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| 2009 | | A Salute to the Wheel (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 12 points | 6 months ago with 7 comments |
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| 2019 | | American Troops in the Russian Civil War (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 11 points | 5 months ago with 3 comments |
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| 2013 | | The first flyer in Texas–and his airplane: Slats and Old Soggy No. 1 (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 10 points | 1 year ago with 4 comments |
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