The US tried permanent daylight saving time in the ’70s. People hated it.
33
votes
Showing only topics with the tag "history".
Back to normal view
-
-
Coming up short: The crash of MarkAir flight 3087
8 votes -
Net neutrality in the US is about more than just blocking and throttling, don't be fooled by attempts to limit the discussion to these concepts
27 votes -
A brief history of tricky mathematical tiling
10 votes -
Two men arrested in an investigation into a famous tree that was felled near Hadrian's Wall in England
26 votes -
Skateboard exhibition displays their elevated style
6 votes -
From Skinny Jeans to Doc Martens: a (short) history of America’s culture wars in fashion
7 votes -
How Lisp became god's own programming language (2018)
29 votes -
Trial testimony - Google considered and rejected creating a form of search that doesn't track users history from website to website
14 votes -
Thirty-nine volumes of the Swedish Academy Dictionary stand as Sweden's answer to the Oxford English Dictionary. And it's just been sent to the printers after 140 years.
18 votes -
Cogs in the machine: The crash of Colgan Air flight 3407 and its legacy
9 votes -
Internet Artifacts
61 votes -
Asin tibuok, nicknamed the dinosaur egg, is one of the rarest salts in the world. Only a few families on a small island in the Philippines still make it. | Still Standing
15 votes -
Sculpting a 16th century alchemy dragon
5 votes -
The costs of not investing in American public infrastructure, research, and education
29 votes -
In Killers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese aims a righteous fury at American history
31 votes -
Wreckage likely belonging to a British submarine that sank during World War II was found off the coast of Norway
13 votes -
Why the Early Modern Period is the most underrated era in European history
5 votes -
The Frighteners (1996) | Almost Cult Classics
4 votes -
The Zone of Interest | Official trailer
11 votes -
The Silk Road: Eight goods traded along the ancient network
7 votes -
Looking for recommendations of Bronze Age historical fiction
Basically what it says in the thread title- any recommendations are welcome.
12 votes -
Disney at 100: Seven ways Walt’s company forever changed entertainment
10 votes -
How to debase the coinage in order to pay for wars
14 votes -
Tomoya Ikeda — Macintosh artist
12 votes -
Agnetha Fältskog recalls the stress and sadness in ABBA, their blockbuster Voyage project, and the music she never lets the world hear
4 votes -
Kenichi Shinohara's pixel art Ukiyo-e (1987)
6 votes -
Feared lost now rediscovered - documentary about life in Brazilian Amazon from 1918 that has been hailed as a classic emerges from depths of Czech archive
17 votes -
Enhance your calm: Demolition Man turns thirty
10 votes -
Fritz Haber, the man who killed millions and saved billions
17 votes -
India’s early electronic music from the ’70s is finally being released
14 votes -
Countdown to collision: The crash of LATAM Perú flight 2213
10 votes -
New Zealand Matrix fan film becomes oldest active torrent in the world
47 votes -
We might have accidentally killed any life we collected in samples on Mars nearly fifty years ago
43 votes -
The surprising history of cars in the US offers hope for a shift toward more climate-friendly transportation options
4 votes -
The Digital Antiquarian: The Last Express
6 votes -
Two women were killed by bears on a day in 1967, the first such deaths in Glacier Park. Park policies completely changed in response.
9 votes -
Rare 1885 photo captures the first licensed women doctors of India, Japan, and Syria
9 votes -
Gilleleje remembers one of the greatest collective acts of resistance of World War II – its role in the flight and escape of over 7,000 Danish Jews
9 votes -
Boy, 16, arrested after felling of famous 300 year old Sycamore Gap tree at Hadrian’s Wall
59 votes -
One hundred seconds of confusion: The crash of China Airlines flight 140
17 votes -
How not to fly a plane: The 2017 Teterboro Learjet crash
19 votes -
Remembering the Philadelphia ‘Pathetics’, the worst baseball team in history
4 votes -
Klaus Härö shines light on deportation of Jews from Finland in ‘Never Alone’ – first look at World War II drama
7 votes -
The history and influence of Columbo - the quirky detective who won our hearts
5 votes -
How languages steal words from each other
10 votes -
A case of sexual violence in cyberspace (1993)
25 votes -
‘Instant credibility’: The evolution of sneakers from functional kicks to high-value commodities
11 votes -
The avant-garde origins of 'Gumby'
12 votes -
Medieval pet names
43 votes