Why does the letter 'S' look like an 'F' in old manuscripts?
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The world champion who learned from YouTube videos
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The lost art of the death mask
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The real history of Rule 34
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The blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea
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Returning to Monkey Island
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The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better.
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A handful of highly skilled artists in Ghana are behind some of the most imaginative, beautiful and exaggerated film posters. These posters are hilarious, captivating, colorful and highly impressive.
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Bellevue, WA police responded to a call from a US Air Force museum that said a man had offered to donate a Cold War-era missile stored in his late neighbor’s garage
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Seismic City by Joanna Dyl: an economic class and political history of the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
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Table manners in the Ottoman Empire - Acem pilav
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How nuclear power saved Armenia
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The insane engineering of the space shuttle
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For the first time: system roms, data dumps, scans and photographs, and a MAME driver for the little-known Sega AI
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The history of X11
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Crusty, the indestructible Mac
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Dave Mills, inventor and longtime coordinator of Network Time Protocol (NTP), died at age 85
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The Hawthorne effect in human resource management is based on unreliable studies
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Making emotional films: The enticing contradictions of Norman Jewison’s movies
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The ambitious plan to open up a treasure trove of Black history
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What happened to David Graeber?
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How Nellie Bly and other trailblazing women wrote creative nonfiction in English before it was a thing
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The women who broke the silence about the terrifying organization that trapped and abused them during Spain’s dictatorship
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The Inside Story of PC Magazine, PC World, and Macworld's Origins, as Told by David Bunnell
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Where Hollywood's printed props are made
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Interview with Lanny Smoot
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The Mayor of Bologna is unequivocal: Spaghetti Bolognese doesn't exist. The real recipe from Bologna, Italy, is called Ragù.
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G36
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Finnish sauna that was gifted to the UK after the 1948 Olympic Games has been granted Grade II-listed status
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Before I reach my enemy, bring me some heads
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Tallow to margarine
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Uncovering the forgotten female astronomers of Yerkes Observatory
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Cooking from clay tablets: Babylonian lamb stew
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What is systemic racism?
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Someone discovered a new pen name used (probably) by Louisa May Alcott in the 1850s
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What the Prisoner's Dilemma reveals about life, the Universe, and everything
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Historians vibe-check The Gilded Age
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Choose Your Own Adventure - Forty-five years ago, one kids book series taught a generation how to make bad decisions
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Vectrex reborn: How a chance encounter gave new life to a dead console
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1917 US reserve ration preserved hard bread cooking review 24 hour MRE taste test
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Silent Spring (Rachel Carson, 1962)
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History of the Graphical User Interface (GUI): A wonderful curse
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Beating Tetris
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Moki Cherry blended work and life, embodying a free-spirited 1970s vision – daughter Neneh Cherry, and her granddaughter Naima Karlsson recall her life and work
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The making of NHL 94: 30th anniversary documentary
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For millennia, Tyrian purple was the most valuable colour on the planet. Then the recipe to make it was lost. By piecing together ancient clues, could one man bring it back?
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