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Was our future to be delightful or depraved? Sort of depends on your perspective
December 13, 2012
| By Matt Novak
Books and DVDs make up our expert's gift guide of more ideas for this holiday season
December 12, 2012
| By Matt Novak
In the year 2062, you really, really don't want to hit a ball out of bounds.
December 11, 2012
| By Matt Novak
Poor Irish women who drank tea in the 19th century might as well have been chugging a bottle of whiskey
December 05, 2012
| By Rachel Nuwer
Visit the futuristic town where drivers and non-drivers live in perfect harmony
December 06, 2012
| By Matt Novak
The Great Pacificator was adept at getting congressmen to reach agreements over slavery. But he was less accommodating when one of his own slaves sued him
December 06, 2012
| By Gilbert King
Richard Paul Pavlick’s plan wasn’t very complicated, but it took an eagle-eyed postal worker to prevent a tragedy
December 06, 2012
| By Dan Lewis
A kids' magazine in the '80s hoped that by now we'd have a whole new array of pets to choose from
December 05, 2012
| By Matt Novak
Montague Jetson is 110 years old--and loving it
December 04, 2012
| By Matt Novak
Don't touch that dial....really, don't
November 30, 2012
| By Matt Novak
A working-class Londoner operated the most exclusive gambling club the world has ever seen
November 29, 2012
| By Mike Dash
Read between the lines of the police report drawn up when the seamstress refused to give up her seat 57 years ago
November 28, 2012
| By Megan Gambino
Never trust a robot co-worker
November 28, 2012
| By Matt Novak
Without benefit of medical training, Madame Restell spent 40 years as a "female physician"
November 27, 2012
| By Karen Abbott
Find out which famous writers didn't make the top ten in this poll.
November 23, 2012
| By Matt Novak
The rambunctious boy had free rein of the White House, and used it to divert a holiday bird from the butcher's block
November 21, 2012
| By Gilbert King
Kids of the 1960s were let in on the secret of how television is made.
November 19, 2012
| By Matt Novak
Anne Kelly Knowles, the winner of Smithsonian American Ingenuity Awards, uses GIS technology to change our view of history
December 2012
| By Tony Horwitz
Visionary inventor
Preston Tucker risked everything when he saw his 1948 automobile as a vehicle for change
December 2012
| By Abigail Tucker
Early filmmakers faced a dilemma: how to capture the drama of war without getting themselves killed in the process. Their solution: fake the footage
November 19, 2012
| By Mike Dash
The Secretary of the Smithsonian draws the connection between the Clovis tools and Silicon Valley
December 2012
| By G. Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
The inventor may have been brilliant, but his warped views on the future of the population reveals that in the end, he was still just human
November 16, 2012
| By Matt Novak
How an apparent misunderstanding led to a brawl that turned into a donnybrook that became a legend
November 15, 2012
| By Gilbert King
The author of a new book about Thomas Jefferson makes his case and defends his scholarship
November 14, 2012
| By Smithsonian.com
The personal humanoid robotic assistant easily makes the short list of retro-futuristic dreams still unfulfilled
November 13, 2012
| By Matt Novak
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