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If you could choose to live out your entire life in any time and place in history, what would you choose and why?

~talk Ask

There are many periods and places of history that are romantic to me, but I wonder which would have been the best/most interesting to actually live in.

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humblerodent

November 28, 2018

18 votes
The birthplace of the modern apple
~food
- history
Article 1531 words
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BBC

November 25, 2018

6 votes
We thought the Incas couldn’t write. These knots change everything.

~humanities.languages Article 2661 words

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newscientist.com

November 19, 2018

8 votes
The single biggest layoff in Canadian history
~finance
- economics
Video 11:20
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YouTube: Rare Earth

November 18, 2018

6 votes
Last surviving Khmer Rouge leaders found guilty of genocide in landmark ruling
~news
- cambodia
- politics
Article 794 words
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ABC

November 18, 2018

7 votes
Navy training video - Mechanical computers [1953]

~tech Video 41:53, published Jul 13 2011

1 comment

YouTube: Excelsior10000

November 17, 2018

6 votes
Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’

~science Article 1257 words

1 comment

Science

November 17, 2018

14 votes
Three feet from God: An oral history of Nirvana ‘Unplugged’

~music Article 8328 words

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Deimos

November 16, 2018

5 votes
‘Amazing Grace’ film review: Aretha Franklin lives in this resplendent gospel concert film

~music Article 929 words

1 comment

boredop

November 13, 2018

5 votes
Tetris Effect and the evolution of Tetris

~games Video 46:06

1 comment

YouTube: Digital Foundry

November 12, 2018

5 votes
We Wish to Plead Our Own Cause: The past and future of America’s black press
~news
- usa
- journalism
Article 4080 words
1 comment

Columbia Journalism Review

November 11, 2018

7 votes
An error message in Windows 10 is a mistake from 1974
~tech
- microsoft
Tweet
@foone🏳️‍⚧️: It is 2018 and this error message is a mistake from 1974.This limitation, which is still found in the very latest Windows 10, dates back to BEFORE STAR WARS. This bug is as old as Watergate. pic.twitter.com/pPbkZiE57t

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Twitter: foone🏳️‍⚧️

November 4, 2018

32 votes
One hundred years on, the scars from World War I linger on Australia's streets and in our psyche

~humanities.history Article 3827 words

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The Sydney Morning Herald

November 10, 2018

6 votes
These men ate poison so you could have the FDA
~food
- history
Article 2147 words
2 comments

Gizmodo

November 10, 2018

14 votes
We will curse you - A history of sports fans resorting to performance-enhancing curses, from the Nika riots to the Red Sox

~sports Link

1 comment

laphamsquarterly.org

November 9, 2018

5 votes
Artist Mat Collishaw is on a quest to reveal the real woman behind the mask of Elizabeth I, the famously image-conscious monarch
~arts
- art
Article 35 words
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BBC

November 9, 2018

4 votes
At 63, I threw away my prized portrait of Robert E. Lee

~humanities.history Article 3501 words, published Oct 23 2018

1 comment

The Atlantic

November 8, 2018

9 votes
The strange and curious tale of the last true hermit
~life
- housing
Article 7667 words, published Aug 5 2014
2 comments

GQ

November 6, 2018

9 votes
Near the end of the Middle Ages a device came into service that helped avid readers: the book carousel or book wheel
~books
- libraries
Article 1294 words
2 comments

medievalbooks.nl

November 4, 2018

14 votes
Authentically what?
~food
- history
Article 7809 words, published Aug 29 2018
1 comment

thecleaverquarterly.com

November 4, 2018

8 votes
Tamales are a treat for Día De Los Muertos—and the other 364 days of the year
~food
- history
Article 914 words
1 comment

thetakeout.com

November 3, 2018

5 votes
How were raisins made before seedless grapes?
~food
- history
Video 5:25
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YouTube: Today I Found Out

November 1, 2018

6 votes
Was Roman concrete better?
~science
- chemistry
Video 9:34
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YouTube: Practical Engineering

October 29, 2018

6 votes
The Digital Antiquarian: Quest for Glory III and IV

~games Article 6319 words

1 comment

filfre.net

October 26, 2018

6 votes
Atari Asteroids: Creating a vector arcade classic

~games Article 2042 words, published Oct 23 2018

1 comment

arcadeblogger.com

October 27, 2018

9 votes
Time Traveller by Merriam-Webster—Find out when a word was first used in print

~humanities.languages Link

2 comments

merriam-webster.com

October 26, 2018

9 votes
The myth of whiteness in classical sculpture - Greek and Roman statues were often painted, but assumptions about race and aesthetics have suppressed this truth

~arts Article 6012 words

3 comments

The New Yorker

October 23, 2018

16 votes
The origins of speed limits in the US

~transport Video 6:26, published Feb 12 2018

1 comment

YouTube: Donut Media

October 23, 2018

5 votes
Nuclear War (USSR, 1980, by A. Shandro)

~design Image

3 comments

sovposters.ru

October 22, 2018

13 votes
David R. Chan's love of lists and determination never to eat at the same place twice has seen him eat at over 7,300 Chinese restaurants and become an accidental expert on Chinese-American history
~food
- restaurants
- history
Article 2742 words
2 comments

scmp.com

October 22, 2018

9 votes
The oldest true stories in the world

~humanities.history Article 1798 words, published Oct 18 2018

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sapiens.org

October 22, 2018

6 votes
Evolution of Emacs Lisp

~comp PDF

1 comment

umontreal.ca

October 21, 2018

7 votes
Code hidden in Stone Age art may be the root of human writing

~humanities.languages Article 2205 words

1 comment

newscientist.com

October 18, 2018

5 votes
Ten books that defined the 1910s
~books
- literature
Article 1900 words
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Literary Hub

October 16, 2018

10 votes
The 19th century best-selling author excluded by the Brazilian Academy of Letters
~books
- literature
Article 1093 words
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globalvoices.org

October 14, 2018

5 votes
When pop-up books taught popular science
~books
- nonfiction
Article 595 words
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The Atlantic

October 14, 2018

9 votes
The Porsche 959's History Was Way More of a Disaster Than You Know

~misc Link

2 comments

jalopnik.com

October 14, 2018

6 votes
The long, long history of long, long CVS receipts
~finance
- business
Article 1119 words, published Oct 10 2018
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Vox

October 14, 2018

11 votes
The rise and demise of RSS
~tech
- internet
- social media
Article 4293 words, published Sep 16 2018
6 comments

twobithistory.org

October 13, 2018

11 votes
The strange triumph of “The Little Prince”

~books Article 1623 words

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The New Yorker

October 13, 2018

5 votes
Germany's plans to win WWI

~humanities.history Video 10:17

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YouTube: Eastory

October 13, 2018

3 votes
King Addies celebrates thirty-five years with '35 Gun Salute' mixtape feat. Fugees, Anita Baker, Nas and more

~music Article 1527 words

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EightRoundsRapid

October 13, 2018

5 votes
The oldest coffee in the world
~food
- drinks
- history
Article 36 words
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BBC

October 13, 2018

8 votes
A very brief history of the Manx language

~humanities.languages Article 838 words

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historytoday.com

October 11, 2018

7 votes
Newly discovered letter by Galileo shows that he lightly edited his original words to appease the Catholic Church
~science
- astronomy
Article 1373 words
3 comments

Ars Technica

September 22, 2018

10 votes
How a teenage girl became the mother of horror: Mary Shelley combined science and the supernatural to write Frankenstein, the world’s first science-fiction novel
~books
- science fiction
Article 1257 words, published Oct 26 2017
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National Geographic

October 10, 2018

3 votes
Mount Vesuvius murdered its victims in more brutal ways than we thought

~science Article 970 words

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Popular Science

October 10, 2018

4 votes
Cheese played a surprisingly important role in human evolution
~food
- history
- diet
Article 846 words, published Aug 31 2018
1 comment

Popular Science

October 8, 2018

10 votes
Was the chocolate chip cookie dumb luck or Nobel-level genius?
~food
- history
Article 1070 words
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thetakeout.com

October 8, 2018

9 votes
The very first social network
~tech
- social media
Article 1886 words, published Oct 2 2018
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Slate

October 8, 2018

10 votes

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