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Five Nobel Laureates Who Made Food History

These five Nobelists have made food safer or more available, or increased our knowledge of it

The film Shadow Magic features the arrival of motion pictures in China.

Weekend Events Oct. 7-9: Native Americans and the Courts, Balloons and Blimps and Shadow Magic

Understand how the U.S. courts system has affected Native Americans, learn about the science of balloons and take in a Chinese film at the Freer gallery

The floating fishing villages in Vietnam's Halong Bay

The World Monuments Fund 2012 Watch List

The latest Watch List from the World Monuments Fund cites 67 invaluable places in need of attention, in some cases protection from tourists

Apple founder Steve Jobs in 1977 introduces the new Apple II computer

The Many Contributions of Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

The extraordinary career of the entrepreneur is chronicled in the Smithsonian collections

Apple CEO Steve Jobs delivering his keynote address at MacWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco in 2007

Steve Jobs: Futurist, Optimist

The innovator wasn’t just this generation’s Thomas Edison, he was also its Walt Disney

Science is outright, public warfare and a great story, Finkbeiner says

Ann Finkbeiner: Why I Like Science

As a way of working, it’s wide-open, competitive, nit-picky and nerve-wracking; it’s outright warfare

No doubt about it, bears had been in this area.

The Bear and the Bullet

The truck came by slowly and a spotlight swept the river bottom. “My God—they’re hunting me!”

Just a small part of the huge bonebed which is Dinosaur National Monument's quarry wall

America’s Real Jurassic Park Re-Opens

The quarry wall strewn with hundreds of bones representing some of the most famous dinosaurs is now open to the public again

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Law and Order: New Culinary Crimes

Burglary, felony theft, criminal mischief, abusing a corpse—last month alone was rife with food-related crimes and convictions

"Greetings, Britons and everybody." Queen Victoria at about the time she made her Graphophone recording.

In Search of Queen Victoria’s Voice

The British monarch was present when a solicitor demonstrated one of the earliest audio recording devices. But did she really say “tomatoes”?

Film still from 55 Days at Peking (1963)

The List: Top Eleven Things to Do this Month at the Smithsonian After Work

Date night at the Smithsonian, grab your special someone and head out to these after-hours events

Is there real science behind 12 Monkeys?

Science on Screen: Explaining Why Zombies Want to Eat You and Other Mysteries of Life

A film series examines how movies make use of science

What will be the future of spaceflight?

Space Travel in the 22nd Century

NASA and the Defense Department want scientists to start dreaming the next impossible dream: Exploring another solar system

A bikini-clad "Dinah" in Vernal, Utah

Dinosaur Sighting: Let’s Swim!

The sign makes me smile every time. It was made when the massive sauropod dinosaurs were thought to spend most of their time in water

Colonel Sanders, a great Halloween costume idea

Stuck for a Halloween Costume Idea? Think Food

Paula Deen, Colonel Sanders, the Swedish Chef—the food world is rife with costume potential

Former Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart on the drum kit

The Mickey Hart Collection in Rhythm with the World

Former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart’s curates a 25-album series of world music for Smithsonian Folkways that drops next week

The eight cotton hoods worn by Confederate conspirators after Lincoln's assassination

The Civil War 150 Years: The Washington Eight

After plotting to kill Lincoln and other Union leaders, a group of Confederate conspirators was put on trial

"Airships may give us a birds eye view of the city."

The Boston Globe of 1900 Imagines the Year 2000

A utopian vision of Boston promises no slums, no traffic jams, no late mail deliveries and, best of all, night baseball games

A crowd gathers at the scene of the Wall Street bombing in September 1920.

Anger and Anarchy on Wall Street

In the early 20th century, resentment at the concentration of wealth took a violent turn

How will you be working with pumpkins in your kitchen this fall?

Five Ways to Cook With Pumpkin

It’s time to think outside the pie crust and consider other ways you can put pumpkin on your table

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