Coffee helped the Union in the Civil War(smithsonianmag.com)142 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 147 comments
19th-Century ‘Toy Book’ Used Science to Prove That Ghosts Were an Illusion(smithsonianmag.com)57 points by prismatic 2 years ago | 37 comments
Ernest Shackleton's Last Ship, Quest, Discovered Off the Coast of Canada(smithsonianmag.com)88 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 31 comments
Ernest Hemingway's brother established a floating republic in the Caribbean(smithsonianmag.com)45 points by Thevet 2 years ago | 14 comments
Researchers find high levels of lead, mercury and arsenic in Beethoven's hair(smithsonianmag.com)128 points by marban 2 years ago | 91 comments
The Leopold and Loeb case, a century Later(smithsonianmag.com)14 points by lermontov 2 years ago | 7 comments
