Smithsonian Magazine1h
New Exhibition Unravels Sigmund Freud’s Complex Relationship With the Women in His Life and Work
Patients, Pioneers, Artists" spotlights the women who influenced the Austrian neurologist—and the field of psychoanalysis more broadly ...
Smithsonian Magazine1h
How an Interracial Marriage Sparked One of the Most Scandalous Trials of the Roaring Twenties
Under pressure from his wealthy family, real estate heir Leonard "Kip" Rhinelander claimed that his new wife, Alice Beatrice Jones, had tricked him into believing she was white ...
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What the Smithsonian (and the Public) Have Learned About Pandas in More Than 50 Years at the National Zoo
Cue the panda cam: The Zoo’s two newest residents, Bao Li and Qing Bao, will make their debut in January Lonnie G. Bunch III ...
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Abraham Lincoln’s Legendary Gettysburg Address Promised ‘Government of the People, by the People, for the People’
The president's humble speech, delivered on this day in 1863, was filled with profound reverence for the Union's ideals—and ...
Smithsonian Magazine9h
How Fallingwater Gave Frank Lloyd Wright a Second Wind
The architectural wonder re-established the designer as a titan of his generation and shifted the public's view of Modernism ...
Smithsonian Magazine9h
See the Dazzling Diamond Necklace With Possible Ties to Marie Antoinette That Just Sold for $4.8 Million
Some of the gems may have featured in a royal scandal known as the "affair of the diamond necklace" that damaged the French ...
Smithsonian Magazine1h
See Every Nook and Cranny of St. Peter’s Basilica With This New, Stunningly Accurate 3D Replica
As Forbes ’ Leslie Katz reports, Pope Francis, the current head of the Catholic Church, encouraged the Fabbrica di San Pietro, the organization that maintains the historic building, to “use the latest ...
Smithsonian Magazine4h
New 3D Bioprinter Could Build Replicas of Human Organs, Offering a Boost for Drug Discovery
The invention uses light, sound and bubbles to quickly create copies of soft tissue that might one day support testing individualized therapies for cancer and other diseases ...