-
4 votes
-
The growth of command line options, 1979 - present
8 votes -
The awakening of Norman Rockwell
7 votes -
The twenty-year argument between Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren over bankruptcy, explained
10 votes -
Origin and evolution of playing card designs
6 votes -
VHSVault - A large VHSRip archive has been posted to the Internet Archive
9 votes -
"Pyke notte thy nostrellys." A 15th-century guide on children's manners has been digitized for first time
10 votes -
Knitting’s tangled history: From aristocrats to punks, the humble yarn has spun its way through centuries of social change
3 votes -
The CED: RCA's Very Late, Very Weird Video Gamble (Pt. 1)
5 votes -
From Nelson's apple to beef wellington: How war changes the way we eat
3 votes -
Covid-19 could mark the end of affluence politics in the USA, as the possibility of a global pandemic reveals the inability to make and distribute the things people need
21 votes -
The Pope's Astronomer, Telescopes, & Space Rocks
Three related videos of Brady Haran in Italy interviewing Brother Guy Consolmagno, director of The Vatican Observatory, were released today on his various channels... and rather than submit them...
Three related videos of Brady Haran in Italy interviewing Brother Guy Consolmagno, director of The Vatican Observatory, were released today on his various channels... and rather than submit them individually:
The Pope's Astronomer - Sixty Symbols
The Pope's Telescopes - Deep Sky Videos
The Pope's Space Rocks - Objectivity #2216 votes -
"Theire Soe Admirable Herbe": How the English Found Cannabis
5 votes -
Myst (or, the drawbacks to success)
10 votes -
Dr. Michael Hudson: Economic lessons (from 2008) for 2020
3 votes -
Gopher: When adversarial interoperability burrowed under the gatekeepers' fortresses
8 votes -
Decades-old photography from the U-2 spy program now offers a time machine to see traces of the historical and ancient past
11 votes -
The outsize, oft-ignored legacy of the original Dragon Quest
6 votes -
Truth and lies: Henrich Schliemann's excavations at Troy | Curator's Corner S05 E11
5 votes -
Game Boy Pocket Sonar: Find fish with the Game Boy
3 votes -
The difference between yams and sweet potatoes is structural racism
10 votes -
That time when the US government wanted Americans to use one dollar coins
6 votes -
Modern copyright law is a joke
8 votes -
The story of Tetris
8 votes -
The deal of the century (or, the alliance of losers)
6 votes -
The YouTube copyright metagame part 1: The history of Copyright on YouTube and How YouTubers deal with it
7 votes -
'The Stranger' was Australia's first locally-produced science fiction television show and one of the first Australian series to be sold overseas
ABC's media release: 'The Stranger' was Australia's first locally-produced science fiction television show and one of the first Australian series to be sold overseas. (Ignore the references to...
ABC's media release: 'The Stranger' was Australia's first locally-produced science fiction television show and one of the first Australian series to be sold overseas. (Ignore the references to 'Doctor Who'; the only connection they have is that they were both science fiction shows made in the mid-1960s. I suspect that show is name-dropped just to get people's interest.)
I've been watching this show. I'm 5 episodes in, which means I'm up to the last episode of the 1st season, with another 6 episodes in the 2nd season (only 12 eps in total).
It's bad but also good (not in the "so bad it's good" way). The production isn't great: the special effects are low-grade, the sets are ordinary, the acting ranges from hammy to wooden, and the writing is clunky. However, despite all that, I find myself hooked. I want to know what's going to happen next. It's an interesting premise: the remnants of an alien species eking out an existence inside a rocket-equipped moon, having left their home planet after an unspecified ecological disaster, to seek out a new home. The plot is good enough to drag me along with it. It also has historical curiosity value.
I doubt it's available outside of Australia, but here's the streaming link. Be warned: it's very slow-paced to start with. The first episode doesn't even mention aliens, and the second episode only has hints.
7 votes -
A brief history of quantum mechanics
7 votes -
The dot-com bubble - Five minute history lesson
8 votes -
There may never ever be another man as powerful as Stanislav Petrov
7 votes -
Russian and Egyptian multiplication
5 votes -
How ads follow you around the internet
8 votes -
What were they thinking? - Lobster recipe from 1755
6 votes -
Military reforms of Diocletian - Roman Imperial army documentary
4 votes -
Mortal Kombat - The legend, the arcade tech, the console ports - sixteen versions analysed
4 votes -
Kim Vilfort – The tragic hero of Denmark's Euro '92 glory
3 votes -
The secret history of the conversation chair
11 votes -
On the 200th anniversary of his death, George III’s collection of more than 3,000 military maps, views and prints in the Royal Collection have been made publicly available online
5 votes -
Steven Sinofsky: The tenth anniversary of the iPad: A perspective from the Windows team
5 votes -
Housing discrimination made summers even hotter
3 votes -
Cyan Worlds co-founder Rand Miller discusses the challenges of getting Myst to work on CD-ROM | War Stories
5 votes -
The real experiments that inspired Frankenstein
3 votes -
The economy of Stalinist Russia
5 votes -
Cut, paste and remix your way through this century-spanning history of collage
3 votes -
How stock buybacks made US CEOs and shareholders really rich
10 votes -
Scientists synthesize the voice of 3000 year old mummy
7 votes -
How would you kill Hitler?
The mission You have been tasked with the mission to kill Hitler. The mission is mandatory and you cannot decline it. You have access to a state of the art time machine: a simple Casio wristwatch...
The mission
You have been tasked with the mission to kill Hitler. The mission is mandatory and you cannot decline it. You have access to a state of the art time machine: a simple Casio wristwatch in which you enter the time, date and location where you wanna travel to. It can travel to any point in past Earth's history, and it is programmed to automatically and safely return you to the present time as soon as the mission is completed.
You have access to all weapons available to humankind in the present day, but you can only take what you can carry.
You also have access to technology that will make you look ethnically German complete with Nazi uniforms, and a perfectly functioning universal translator.
How this thread will work
I will try to come up with a negative outcome for every answer in jackass genie style. Others are welcome to do the same!
22 votes -
American Psycho: An oral history, twenty years after its divisive debut
7 votes -
If you could make any event(s) in history not happen, which one(s) would you pick?
I didn't know tildes has trending topics. I'd either pick the rise of the bolsheviks in Russia (You can replace them with the mensheviks, who wanted to abide by democracy.), The division of the...
I didn't know tildes has trending topics.
I'd either pick the rise of the bolsheviks in Russia (You can replace them with the mensheviks, who wanted to abide by democracy.), The division of the HRE (A united germany in 900CE would be very consequential.) And the rise of the hapsburgs in what would be Austria-Hungary, since it meshed a dozen linguistic groups together.
13 votes -
In Paris, the rebuilding of Notre Dame is being shaped by history, myth, and Emmanuel Macron
10 votes