The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
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When tomatoes were blamed for witchcraft and werewolves
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The Ballad of John and Yoko | Lindsay Ellis
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Modern Warfare: How Call of Duty 4 changed a genre forever
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12,000-year-old Aboriginal sticks may be evidence of the oldest known culturally transmitted ritual in the world
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Thirty years later, FreeDOS is still keeping the dream of the command prompt alive
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Pål Enger, talented Norwegian soccer player turned celebrity art thief who pulled off the sensational 1994 heist of Edvard Munch's famed “The Scream”, has died
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FreeDOS open-source text-based OS turns 30, still in active development and primarily used for retro gaming
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Slovenia's beautiful beehives turn apiaries into art
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The strange origin story behind Akira's megacity, Neo Tokyo
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Why didn't Chris and Dan get into Berghain? - Search Engine with PJ Vogt
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What a century (plus a pandemic) does to moviegoing and why it matters
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Scholars discover rare 16th-century tome with handwritten notes by John Milton
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Chef cooks from 720 year old cook book
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Adrift off the Finnish coast, the autonomous island of Maakalla comes alive each summer and offers a fascinating glimpse at how Finns once lived
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Decades later, John Romero looks back at the birth of the first-person shooter
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The victims of US nuclear testing deserve more than this
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Red Lobster | Bankrupt
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Fast crimes at Lambda School
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Ahmes, the first known maths author
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Before smartphones, an army of real people helped you find stuff on Google
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Milwaukee’s oldest gay bar donates thousands of photos to Wisconsin LGBTQ History Project
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Is Tetris really forty this year?
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TETRIS: Heavenly Scrolls (1989)
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Fit to be dyed: The enduring appeal of tie-dye
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Government without states (how to raise a tribal army in pre-Roman Europe, part II)
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Goldfish memories - most of China’s early websites have disappeared
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Undemocratic, anachronistic, fantastic. How the City of London survives.
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Divers find remains of Finnish WWII plane that was shot down by Moscow with a US diplomat aboard
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Band Saw Sculptor [1964]
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The antiquity to alt-right pipeline (on Twitter)
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Why we like people who ask us for favors
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The life and death of E3
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Science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin made Schrödinger’s cat famous
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The origin of every European country's name
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"Sword breakers" were rare and we don't know much about them. How were they used and what were they really for? Two experienced rapier fencers experiment with one to discover more about them.
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The moral economy of the Shire
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The Goya paintings you aren't supposed to look at
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Does anyone have the right to sex? [2018]
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Josh Gibson becomes MLB career and season batting leader as Negro Leagues statistics incorporated
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I visited the mud wrestlers of Punjab, Pakistan Part 1 | Strength Unknown
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Book borrowed from Finnish library returned eighty-four years late – copy of Arthur Conan Doyle's Refugees was due to be returned month after USSR invaded Finland
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How to build 300,000 airplanes in five years
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Kerbal Space Program 2 development history
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Eastern Air Lines | Bankrupt
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The history of Tetris world records
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The Canterbury Tales, or, how technology changes the way we speak
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Emigre typography and graphic design magazine (1984–2005)
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This American Civil War submarine vanished for 136 years
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Meet the Finnish biotech startup bringing a long lost mycoprotein to your plate – proprietary single-cell fungus-based protein was originally developed by local paper industry
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