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11 votes
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Kyrgyzstan ballads, Okinawa folk, Ugandan hymns … the album rewriting global music history
4 votes -
335 year old recipe, 'Rice Puddings In Guts' (beef bung casing), from The Acompliſht Cook
5 votes -
The rise and fall of Roe v. Wade
Part 1 (55 minutes): The hosts take on one of the Supreme Court’s most famous decisions, Roe v. Wade. In this first episode of a two-part series, they look at the legal and factual origins of Roe...
Part 1 (55 minutes):
The hosts take on one of the Supreme Court’s most famous decisions, Roe v. Wade. In this first episode of a two-part series, they look at the legal and factual origins of Roe v. Wade. They also discuss how Roe was weaponized by the conservative legal movement to rally against an interpretation of the Constitution that allows for flexibility in favor of a far more rigid approach.
Part 2 (61 minutes):
In the second part of a two-episode series on abortion rights, the hosts discuss Planned Parenthood v. Casey, a 1992 case in which the Supreme Court made it easier for states to restrict abortion access so long as abortion regulations don’t create an “undue burden.” The vague standard set lawmakers on a new path of attacking abortion access and fueled anti-abortion groups’ efforts to spread stigma and misinformation, setting up Roe v. Wade for a death by a thousand cuts.
(it's impossible to link to podcasts in a simple or easy way...if anyone has a better way of doing this I'm all ears...)
5-4 (pronounced "five to four", as in the vote total of a closely-divided court case from 9 justices) is one of my favorite podcasts. It's lawyers dissecting Supreme Court cases in a way that is very understandable to non-lawyers, from an explicitly and unabashedly left-wing perspective.
This is an extremely informative primer on the entire arc of abortion rights in the US, from the actual case everyone has heard of (Roe v Wade in the 1970s) to the case in the 1990s that actually superseded Roe and a case from last year that was seen as a victory because it upheld a previous case but it also contained a poison pill that significantly weakened that precedent.
8 votes -
Richard Feynman and the bomb
8 votes -
Power struggle: The most quietly innovative thing that emerged from the latter half of the 1990s was the on-battery power meter. It was the subject of a complex patent battle.
9 votes -
How 19th century activists ditched corsets for one-piece long underwear: Before it was embraced by men, the union suit, or "emancipation suit," was worn by women pushing for dress reform
4 votes -
In 1978, to emulate the exuberant and stylistic luxury of the Lincoln Continental, Volvo launched its own facsimile of the traditional American land yacht, the 262C
5 votes -
How Israel built a nuclear program right under the Americans' noses
7 votes -
The "whitewashing" of Black Wall Street: A century after the Tulsa, Oklahoma massacre, Black entrepreneurs in the city’s Greenwood district feel threatened with erasure yet again
8 votes -
The word "Robot" is a hundred years old this month
19 votes -
How to Eurovision – ‘It seems that Norway and the violin are a perfect combination’
7 votes -
The history of sourdough in Alaska, and why long-time residents are called "sourdoughs"
6 votes -
The bootleg sake of Prohibition-era Seattle
4 votes -
Kaiju history part 1: Godzilla
5 votes -
HD laserdisc: HD in 1993
3 votes -
Fifty years of text games: Rocket (1972)
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How Linksys’ most famous router, the WRT54G, tripped into legendary status because of an undocumented feature that slipped through during a merger
25 votes -
Military historian breaks down medieval weapons in video games
3 votes -
How much time do you think should pass before articles or discussion about any given event can be tagged as history?
Personally I think the minimum should be 10 or 15 years, with stuff from 5 to 10 years ago being recent history, but I'm kinda biased.
15 votes -
How Rome destroyed its own republic
12 votes -
How to resign, via Letters of Note
8 votes -
In 1814, British forces burned the US Capitol
9 votes -
A brief history of peanut butter: The bizarre sanitarium staple that became a spreadable obsession
6 votes -
Fifty years of text games: The Oregon Trail (1971)
4 votes -
Why Japanese tigers have flat heads: Painted screen by Maruyama Okyo 円山応挙
5 votes -
A real-life Lord of the Flies: The troubling legacy of the Robbers Cave experiment
7 votes -
Until 1968, a married Texas woman couldn’t own property or start a business without her husband’s permission. Attorney Louise Raggio fought to change that.
10 votes -
The most expensive books and manuscripts in history
4 votes -
The man who invented more than eight hundred iconic toys and games
6 votes -
Inside the US Army’s warehouse full of Nazi art
10 votes -
Fifty years of text games: A 2021 journey from Oregon Trail to AI Dungeon
5 votes -
The history of Super Mario Bros. 2 world records
4 votes -
The tale of a World War II British submarine that shot down an enemy plane with a torpedo
7 votes -
One town, four elements – Ytterby in Sweden is famous for being the single richest source of elemental discoveries in the world
5 votes -
The butteriest popcorn, movie theater style (but using real butter)
7 votes -
Culture kept in its coffin: How the Netflix model buries our media history
7 votes -
How to revive a dead language: Although it was the language of sacred texts and ritual, modern Hebrew wasn’t spoken in conversation till the late nineteenth century
10 votes -
The history of Jews, Chinese food, and Christmas, explained by a rabbi
11 votes -
The secret history of the conversation chair
8 votes -
Tiki bars are a beverage industry mainstay, with a painful and underexamined past. Can the format be repaired?
6 votes -
As Covid-19 ravaged Waterloo, Iowa, officials discovered meatpacking executives were the ones in charge
12 votes -
The story of 1987's Acorn Archimedes, the first production ARM/RISC-based personal computer
9 votes -
What did the past smell like?
5 votes -
The history of Lode Runner, Doug Smith’s seminal action-puzzle platformer from 1983
10 votes -
The father of modern warfare – the military reforms of Gustavus Adolphus' changed the face of European warfare
7 votes -
An elixir from the French Alps, frozen in time
9 votes -
How did the Qing dynasty collapse? The Xinhai revolution explained
3 votes -
The folkloric roots of the QAnon conspiracy
5 votes -
MLB is finally recognizing the Negro Leagues as the Major Leagues they always were
8 votes