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20 votes
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The first video game
10 votes -
A map of the age of all the buildings in the Netherlands
10 votes -
Why sitcoms stopped using laugh tracks - Short history of the laff box
8 votes -
Ancient Egyptian brewery is the oldest ever found
12 votes -
Remembering "All Your Base" twenty years later
14 votes -
The long history of warrior turtles, from ancient myth to warships to teenage mutants
9 votes -
What will the world look like in 250 million years? | Map Men
12 votes -
Matthew Syed looks at how the behaviour of hostages at a 1973 bank robbery gave rise to a concept known as Stockholm syndrome
5 votes -
What did Ada Lovelace's program actually do?
20 votes -
We broke phosphorus: Humanity is flushing away one of life's essential elements
19 votes -
The Super Bowl through the years – in pictures
4 votes -
The real novelty of the ARPANET
8 votes -
Sámi National Day – National day that falls on February 6th. This date was when the first Sámi congress was held in 1917 in Trondheim, Norway
11 votes -
The Bowed Strings Iconography Project catalogues as many images of bowed string instruments as possible throughout all periods of history through to the present day
5 votes -
Early illustrations of the nervous system by Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal
5 votes -
Dogs have been our best friends for at least 23,000 years
13 votes -
How to eat like a pirate: Hardtack & grog
3 votes -
A picture of what dating looked like in the 1950s
4 votes -
How did the Blow Job shot happen?
3 votes -
The lost treasure of Joe Meek’s Tea Chest Tapes
5 votes -
An art revolution, made with scissors and glue
4 votes -
Power-Up Baseball - Baseball’s lost “NBA Jam” revealed
7 votes -
WorkBoy: Lost Game Boy add-on found after twenty-eight years
6 votes -
“Dig Us”: 60 Years of Louis Armstrong at the Sphinx
4 votes -
2020 US Congress insider trading scandal
7 votes -
What color was “Apple Beige”
11 votes -
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)
5 votes -
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