The Swedish photographer capturing the vanishing glaciers – Christian Åslund was shocked at the difference between what he saw in 2002 and what confronted him this summer
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The boy who kicked the hornets' nest – Stieg Larsson's double life as an anti-far right activist in Sweden
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Unpacking the intertwined histories of porn and video games
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Club Penguin: gone but not forgotten
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The world's most feminist city – how Umeå in Sweden became an idyll for women
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Poking Holes in Potatoes: An excerpt from Brian Taylor Cohen's book, SHAMELESS
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The Mother of All Demos (1968)
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Morrowind doesn't have any rivers
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Swedish photographer Lars Tunbjörk documented remarkably dreary corporate spaces – his images should remind us that it didn't have to be this way
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‘We were wrong’: An oral history of WIRED’s original website
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Hear a Chopin waltz unearthed after nearly 200 years
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The Playstation 2 "Emotion Engine" was worthy of the hype
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Declaration of Helsinki turns sixty – how this foundational document of medical ethics has stood the test of time
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Vince Collins - Life is Flashing Before Your Eyes (1984)
An interesting animated musical film that could probably be posted in ~music but I thought the animation was the standout aspect of this short video. It’s not for everyone, but if you’re into...
An interesting animated musical film that could probably be posted in ~music but I thought the animation was the standout aspect of this short video. It’s not for everyone, but if you’re into experimental or psychedelic animation, this short is a standout from the 80s. Definitely worth a watch if you’re in the mood for something unusual and a little disorienting.
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The death of the music video
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The truth and myth behind Baby Ruth candy bars
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New largest prime number found! 2¹³⁶²⁷⁹⁸⁴¹-1. See all 41,024,320 digits.
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Navajo code talker who helped allies win Second World War dies aged 107
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Why Sven-Göran Eriksson's England should have won the World Cup
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Long-lost Bram Stoker story discovered in Dublin
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The story behind the Oblivion mod Terry Pratchett worked on
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Investigating the most extreme ancient village in the United States
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Surviving the Titanic - dining on Carpathia
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Thinking on storage
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The XVIII best films about the Romans – ranked
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What sort of pets did medieval people keep?
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Duracell PowerCheck: A genius idea which didn't last that long
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The United States of beer, mapsplained - Phil Edwards (former Vox) explains the history of beer in America
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Remains of Andrew 'Sandy' Irvine believed to have been found on Everest
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Recreating dog food from the last 2,000 years
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Iceland has been the backdrop for generations of astronaut training missions – we look at what makes the Arctic island nation so crucial for Moon research
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Iceland's famous music venues swallowed by tourism – thriving music scene that gave world Björk, Sigur Rós and Ólafur Arnald under threat from Reykjavík's popularity
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Using randomizers to play Zelda like it's 1987
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The rapidly growing tram system of Helsinki – taking a look at the network's history, lines, technical details, tram fleet, ridership, and the future
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The blogosphere is in full bloom. The rest of the internet has wilted.
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America’s first cross-country auto race
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German Navy Enigma machine systems were different to the Army, making them tougher to crack. In this video, James Grime discusses the differences and what Alan Turing achieved in breaking the code.
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Following Norway’s national painter through a landscape of mountains and fjords – Harald Sohlberg is celebrated within his native country and almost unknown outside it
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Where does punctuation come from?!
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Nintendo shows off Mario, Zelda, and 135 years of history in a new Kyoto museum
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre at fifty
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Denmark became the world's first country to offer legal recognition of gay partnerships on 1 October 1989 – a day when "something shifted in human affairs"
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Operation Match: The dating service that changed our love lives
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A brief history of the end of the world
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‘SNL’ debut cast and crew look back on fifty seasons
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45 years ago CompuServe connected the world before the World Wide Web
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How did Scandinavian Airlines flight 751 survive after losing power in both engines just one minute after takeoff?
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Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi's paintings had a recurring mysterious woman with her back turned – here, through letters and photos, her sadness-tinged story is revealed
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Conan O'Brien flops! (1993)
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Inside Iron Mountain: It’s time to talk about hard drives
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