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		Timekeepers Have Gotten Rid of the Leap Second and Introduced the Leap Hour (smithsonianmag.com)
		3 points by emptybits 3 hours ago \| past \| discuss
		Dam Removals Are Bringing Fish Back Across the Northeastern United States (smithsonianmag.com)
		8 points by sohkamyung 10 hours ago \| past \| 2 comments
		How the 1904 Marathon Became One of the Weirdest Olympic Events of All Time (smithsonianmag.com)
		2 points by Tomte 3 days ago \| past \| discuss
		Archaeologists Are Reconstructing the 'Invisible' Technologies of the Stone Age (smithsonianmag.com)
		156 points by Hooke 9 days ago \| past \| 58 comments
		5k-Year-Old Arrowhead Emerges from Norway's Rapidly Melting Mountain Ice (smithsonianmag.com)
		3 points by bookofjoe 10 days ago \| past \| discuss
		A Shark Was Spotted Swimming Through the Flooded Streets of New Jersey (smithsonianmag.com)
		3 points by pseudolus 12 days ago \| past \| discuss
		The Ridiculous Reason Why the U.S. Enacted a Wartime Ban on Sliced Bread Sales (smithsonianmag.com)
		2 points by speckx 15 days ago \| past
		An amoeba that can survive and swim at 147 degrees F (smithsonianmag.com)
		3 points by marc__1 17 days ago \| past
		Who wrote Elizabeth I's most scathing letters? (smithsonianmag.com)
		49 points by benbreen 18 days ago \| past \| 24 comments
		Amateur detectorist unearths Germany's biggest Roman silver hoard (smithsonianmag.com)
		2 points by promptspheree 18 days ago \| past
		Kleptoparasitism (Food Stealing) in Cetaceans (smithsonianmag.com)
		2 points by bookofjoe 18 days ago \| past
		The Nightmare of Voskhod 2 (smithsonianmag.com)
		3 points by thunderbong 23 days ago \| past
		A New DNA Analysis May Solve the Centuries-Old Medici Mystery (smithsonianmag.com)
		2 points by thunderbong 24 days ago \| past
		Some Fish in the Great Lakes Might Be More Than 400 Years Old (smithsonianmag.com)
		3 points by mooreds 29 days ago \| past
		USA Nation got its name on Sep 9, 1776. Americans debated the moniker ever since (smithsonianmag.com)
		2 points by mdp2021 38 days ago \| past \| 1 comment
		Researchers Spot Fake Ancient Pottery Using the Earth's Magnetic Field (smithsonianmag.com)
		83 points by cisc 41 days ago \| past \| 30 comments
		Rare Half-Male, Half-Female Bird Took Up Residence Outside of Chicago (smithsonianmag.com)
		5 points by gmays 42 days ago \| past
		Earth's organisms developed via evolution. What if the cosmos did, too? (smithsonianmag.com)
		105 points by JulianPGough 44 days ago \| past \| 69 comments
		Archeologists in Denmark Discover Rare Fragments of 1300 Year Old Clothing (smithsonianmag.com)
		3 points by 55445544 45 days ago \| past
		Benjamin Franklin’s alter egos gave him the most freedom (smithsonianmag.com)
		111 points by cisc 48 days ago \| past \| 78 comments
		When fruit is scarce, these monkeys hunt animals (smithsonianmag.com)
		73 points by cisc 48 days ago \| past \| 42 comments
		Some conservationists are helping to restore Africa’s wild dog populations (smithsonianmag.com)
		78 points by speckx 49 days ago \| past \| 33 comments
		The Masonic Murder That Inspired the First Third Party in American Politics (smithsonianmag.com)
		4 points by CGMthrowaway 50 days ago \| past
		Why Do Ancient Human Brains Not Always Rot (smithsonianmag.com)
		4 points by jnord 51 days ago \| past
		How Arlington National Cemetery Came to Be (smithsonianmag.com)
		4 points by goles 52 days ago \| past
		Box of 300 Love Letters Showed Up, What Whimsical WWII Soldier Who Wrote Them? (smithsonianmag.com)
		41 points by gmays 53 days ago \| past \| 8 comments
		Octopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation (smithsonianmag.com)
		198 points by bookofjoe 53 days ago \| past \| 188 comments
		MRIs Show Dogs Are Good at Distinguishing Between Human Emotions (smithsonianmag.com)
		5 points by pseudolus 54 days ago \| past
		The Fight to Save a 300-Year-Old Tree That Survived a Revolutionary War Battle (smithsonianmag.com)
		3 points by rmason 55 days ago \| past
		Two Extinct 'Ghost' Ancestors Were Found Hiding in Modern Human DNA (smithsonianmag.com)
		5 points by jumploops 57 days ago \| past
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