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Mark Twain on Where Babies Come From

The American humorist lends his reasoning for his long and fruitful marriage

Let's Kiss.

Everything You Wanted to Know About Food and Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask)

What is the term for a “euphoric sensation upon eating amazingly delicious food”

“Commune Gothic” Summer 1970

Brotherhood Spirit in Flesh Soup, or a Recipe Calling For Love

The counterculture has long been characterized by a single word: “love.” For some hippie communards, love was also a recipe ingredient

Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum in Screen Gems' The Vow

Finding Love at the Movies

Hollywood does romance best in its comedies

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When Uncle Sam Backs Your Film

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When Uncle Sam Backs Your Film

How Act of Valor is only the latest in a long history of official military involvement in the film industry

Charles McIlvaine, Pioneer of American Mycophagy

“I take no man’s word for the qualities of a toadstool,” said the man who took it upon himself to sample more than 600 species

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Sugar of Lead: A Deadly Sweetener

Did ancient Romans, Pope Clement II or Ludwig van Beethoven overdose on a sweet salt of lead?

Alongside the print version, Smithsonian is now offering an enhanced interactive version of the award-winning magazine.

Introducing Smithsonian Magazine on the iPad

All the history, travel, science and culture you love in a new and exciting format

Bedtime Reading From Beatrix Potter: Amateur Mycologist

Would Flopsy, Mopsy and Peter Cottontail have been conceived had it not been for the biases of Victorian era science?

Matthew Broderick in Matthew's Day Off

What Ever Happened to the Short Film?

Why short films still win Oscars

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As American as Doritos, Bud and Chrysler

The Super Bowl has always been about more than just the outcome of the game

The Sally Lunn bun (left) and the Bath bun (right)

The Squishy History of Bath’s Buns

Was Sally Lunn a 17th-century Huguenot refugee named Solange Luyon? Or just a great tall tale?

Eintopf

The Battle for Food in World War II

A new book examines how food figured into the major powers’ war plans

An abstract image of an egg

Where Jet Engines, Football Fans and Eggs Collide

Does the noise in a Super Bowl stadium create enough power to fry up a dozen eggs?

The Marx Brothers in Horsefeathers

Super Bowl Guide to Football Films

The sport was fodder for slapstick comedy, but as the technology evolved, so did the way in which filmmakers portrayed the gridiron on the big screen

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A Preview of Discovery’s Arrival to the Smithsonian

NASA prepares its decommissioned space shuttles for delivery to the National Air and Space Museum

Ellen "Nelly" Ternan, in 1870, was a figure lost to history.

Dickens’ Secret Affair

Biographer Claire Tomalin’s literary sleuthing revealed the untold story of the famed author’s “invisible woman”

Dickens World, a theme park in Chatham, offers an 1800s immersion. The novelist, says the attraction's Kevin Christie, "was a showman. He would have loved this."

Going Mad for Charles Dickens

Two centuries after his birth, the novelist is still wildly popular, as a theme park, a new movie and countless festivals attest

Entomology research technician Nor Faridah Dahlan with frozen tissue samples.

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Icons and Insights

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