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		Did Lab Insects Learned That the Smell of DEET Would Lead Them to a Tasty Treat? (smithsonianmag.com)
		3 points by Vaslo 11 hours ago \| past \| discuss
		The National Automated Highway System That Almost Was (2013) (smithsonianmag.com)
		3 points by downbad_ 2 days ago \| past \| discuss
		An Elephant Who Demonstrated That Her Species Might Be Self-Aware, Dies at 55 (smithsonianmag.com)
		61 points by pseudolus 2 days ago \| past \| 4 comments
		Original 'Star Trek' Enterprise Model Resurfaces Decades After It Went Missing (smithsonianmag.com)
		6 points by geox 2 days ago \| past \| discuss
		13th Century King Arthur manuscript headed to auction (smithsonianmag.com)
		1 point by emptybits 3 days ago \| past \| discuss
		Archaeologists Extracted a Pristine Leather Notebook from a Medieval Latrine (smithsonianmag.com)
		5 points by speckx 4 days ago \| past \| discuss
		Human-Made Materials Now Weigh More Than All Life on Earth Combined (2020) (smithsonianmag.com)
		4 points by thunderbong 7 days ago \| past \| discuss
		Giraffes Silently Slip onto the Endangered Species List (2016) (smithsonianmag.com)
		3 points by downbad_ 7 days ago \| past \| discuss
		New dinosaur species Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis (smithsonianmag.com)
		3 points by firasd 12 days ago \| past \| discuss
		Possible atmosphere detected on small trans-Neptunian object (smithsonianmag.com)
		4 points by pavel_lishin 15 days ago \| past
		Why Was the Discovery of the Jet Stream Mostly Ignored? (2018) (smithsonianmag.com)
		2 points by robin_reala 19 days ago \| past
		A Robot Just Became a Monk at a Buddhist Temple in South Korea (smithsonianmag.com)
		2 points by lisper 24 days ago \| past
		Robot Monk at a Buddhist Temple in South Korea (smithsonianmag.com)
		3 points by andsoitis 24 days ago \| past \| 1 comment
		Timmy the Whale Released After Being Stranded Off the German Coast for Weeks (smithsonianmag.com)
		4 points by ulrischa 26 days ago \| past \| 1 comment
		Lifting a 30k-Pound Mast from a Warship Built a Record-Breaking 261 Years Ago (smithsonianmag.com)
		2 points by Alupis 28 days ago \| past
		A Russian Family Was Isolated for 40 Years, Unaware of WWII (2013) (smithsonianmag.com)
		4 points by downbad_ 28 days ago \| past \| 1 comment
		New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag (smithsonianmag.com)
		571 points by dryadin 29 days ago \| past \| 551 comments
		Why Footbinding Persisted in China for a Millennium (2015) (smithsonianmag.com)
		1 point by thomassmith65 31 days ago \| past
		When NASA Told Its Astronauts to Quit Smoking (2014) (smithsonianmag.com)
		3 points by thunderbong 31 days ago \| past
		The Science Behind Honey's Eternal Shelf Life (2013) (smithsonianmag.com)
		68 points by downbad_ 32 days ago \| past \| 31 comments
		Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch (smithsonianmag.com)
		246 points by 1659447091 36 days ago \| past \| 83 comments
		HS Student Built a Filter That Removes 96% of Microplastics from Drinking Water (smithsonianmag.com)
		3 points by akyuu 38 days ago \| past \| 3 comments
		Newly Digitized Records Reveal How Maori Shared Knowledge of Plants with British (smithsonianmag.com)
		2 points by beatthatflight 41 days ago \| past
		Rare 1897 Film Discovered Features the First On-Screen Appearance of a Robot (smithsonianmag.com)
		2 points by rmason 44 days ago \| past
		What Emotion Goes Viral the Fastest? (2014) (smithsonianmag.com)
		2 points by chistev 44 days ago \| past \| 1 comment
		Spiral staircase with a single guardrail once led to the top of the Eiffel Tower (smithsonianmag.com)
		54 points by bookofjoe 46 days ago \| past \| 33 comments
		Women Who Mapped the Universe and Still Couldn't Get Any Respect (smithsonianmag.com)
		2 points by pmontra 46 days ago \| past
		The Longest Outdoor Escalator Just Opened in China (smithsonianmag.com)
		2 points by mooreds 50 days ago \| past \| 1 comment
		World's Longest Outdoor Escalator – 3k-Feet-Long – Opens in China (smithsonianmag.com)
		2 points by bookofjoe 52 days ago \| past
		World's Longest Outdoor Escalator Opened in China – Takes 20 Minutes to Ascend (smithsonianmag.com)
		2 points by sarimkx 56 days ago \| past \| 1 comment
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