At the limits of thought: Science today stands at a crossroads--will its progress be driven by human minds or by the machines that we’ve created?
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Apollo 11: From lunar orbit to landing
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Too black, too queer, too holy: why Little Richard never truly got his dues -- How did a turbaned drag queen from the sexual underground of America’s Deep South ignite rock’n’roll?
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The great geomagnetic storm of May 1921
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1998: Apple's iMac is full of flash, dash, but has a few big holes
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Where Dr. Anothony Fauci came from — and the crisis that shaped his career
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The Swiss at war: Bellicose Swiss and an ambitious Duke - The Burgundian Wars Pt. 1
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The history of Creative Assembly
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Fried crème brûlée cooked three times | 18th Century Cooking
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'Lovers of Modena' skeletal find were both men; researchers quick to reassess their relationship
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Welcome to the age of privacy nihilism
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The woman who founded Mother's Day in the US eventually came to regret it
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The history of Adventures in Wonderland | DefunctTV
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Learn about three famous paintings from one of the National Gallery’s curators
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The hunt for the German battleship Tirpitz, '42-44
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America’s ‘fried chicken war’
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The story of Dimrain47
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This video has 16,905 likes (that's 689,333 fewer than Tom's!)
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The cost of free doughnuts: Seventy years of regret
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When business plans blow up: management lessons from WWII
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How we got to Sesame Street
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Republicans are sacrificing other Americans' freedoms for their own, like once happened in the American Civil War
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Smallpox and the long road to eradication
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Polish sound postcards (pocztówka dźwiękowa)
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Love Bug's creator tracked down to repair shop in Manila
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Do you think there is anything from the past we should bring back?
(Hot take alert) I personally think mass protests should be brought back. Many governments around the world are rejecting democracy and so can really only be held accountable with drastic...
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I personally think mass protests should be brought back. Many governments around the world are rejecting democracy and so can really only be held accountable with drastic measures. I'd even argue people should be armed and follow domething like in the Charlottesville gun rallies or the 1968 DNC riots as a model for protesting particularly egregious stuff like Trump's impeachment trial. A few hundred thousand armed people pointing at the US Senate saying 'A trial without witnesses is unconstitutional, the president is not above the law' would definitely send a message to the Republicans there and watching in FOX.
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Why the An-225 Mriya is such a badass plane
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Tribes along India-Myanmar border dream of a 'united Nagaland'
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Fruit trenches: Cultivating subtropical plants in freezing temperatures
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A history of vintage electronics: The Guglielmo Marconi Collection and the history of wireless communications
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Scientists stage sword fights to study Bronze Age warfare
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Long-lost US military satellite found by amateur radio operator
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The Hubble Space Telescope launched thirty years ago—then the problems began
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How one man poisoned a city’s water supply (and saved millions of children’s lives in the process)
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Croteam: Croatia's game dev pioneers
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Quantum steampunk: 19th-century science meets technology of today
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How China sees the world - And how the world should see China
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A documentary called 'Mrs America' shows how Phyllis Schlafly partidarized the ERA, birthed the culture war and pioneered modern Conservative rhetoric
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Video of a still functioning 1958 FACOM 128B Japanese Relay Computer
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How we fell in and out of love with the laff box, the laugh track machine that changed sitcoms forever
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Humans have been telling stories and using dice for thousands of years, so why did it take us so long to combine them into role-playing games?
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For eleven years, the Soviet Union had no weekends
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In his book Arcade Game Typography, type designer Toshi Omagari breaks down the evolution, design, and history of arcade game fonts
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Satisfaction: How the Rolling Stones made tequila a hit
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No nails - Frontiersman survival shelter
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How infectious disease defined the American bathroom
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America: 200 years of responding to epidemics from The Saturday Evening Post
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The history of mainstream handwashing only began near the end of the 19th century
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As Coca-Cola’s popularity spread in the United States in the 1920s, rabbis around the country asked, is Coke kosher?
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How Passover brisket became Texas barbecue: From the Shtetl to the smoker
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