The nurse who introduced gloves to the operating room
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RetroAhoy: X-COM
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Known as "torfbæir", these ingeniously designed Icelandic homes helped settle one of Europe's least-hospitable environments
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How Brian Eno created Ambient 1: Music for Airports
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Svante Pääbo deserves his accolade – palaeogenetics is an expanding field that tells us who we are
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How shipping containers took over the world (then broke it)
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A historian's perspective on the Battle of Helms Deep
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Clues to the near-future behaviour of a warming Greenland, and perhaps even a warming Antarctic, buried under the North Sea
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Burlesque in crisis: Hanging on by a g-string
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Swedish researcher Svante Pääbo has won this year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his research into how human beings evolved
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SEA 48 - 45 DET - That's Scorigami!!
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Why did we wait so long for wind power? Part II
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A history of ARM, part 1: Building the first chip
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How one of America’s last piano manufacturers stays alive
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Forgotten archive of medieval books and manuscripts discovered in Romanian church
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As Häxan turns 100, this utterly chilling silent film deserves more celebration – given it set the template for The Blair Witch Project and many more horrors besides
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Pemmican: History's power bar
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9/26 is Petrov Day
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Did Neanderthals make art?
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Jerry cans: The true secret weapon of WWII
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Don’t feel like a dummy for loving the Dummies guides: The history of the Dummies guides
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The day the US TV industry died
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The straightening of Chandler Bing
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The history of Mega Man 2 world records
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Where everybody knows your name, a Cheers retrospective
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This 'boring' album cover is hiding a masterpiece
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The economist who knows the miracle is over
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One great article about every planet in the solar system
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Halting way to the right road – Dagen H is the day Sweden switched to driving on the right in 1967
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Stomping the margarine: Life when we had to color our food
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William Shatner’s Esperanto horror movie is a cult classic
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How this Florida town became the sea sponge capital of the world | Big Business
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The true history of the Knights Templar with Dan Jones
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What makes Disney villains so gay?
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Putting the Icelandic Lupin debate under the microscope to try and find out the good and the bad about this invasive species
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Why Nintendo doesn't make everything you want
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Memphis '69: The 1969 Memphis Country Blues Festival | Full documentary
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Full log cabin build - Townsends Wilderness Homestead
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What happened to flying wings?
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‘I just wanted my life to end’: The mystery of Agatha Christie’s disappearance
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The twisted life of Clippy
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Unveiled: First immersive Roddenberry Archive experiences, multi-year roadmap to preserve history of the ‘Star Trek’ universe
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How Rock Against Racism fought fascism
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Once a trading gateway to the world, Finland's ancient capital of Turku is carving out a new niche as a Nordic food hotspot
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What is an older TV show that you really think would be relevant today, both from an artistic and cultural standpoint?
Lots of older shows were quite innovative and groundbreaking even for today, so I'm curious to know what you would like to present to younger audiences!
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When a modern director makes a fake old movie
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Logistics: How did they do it? Part III, on the move
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Jaguar cacao - Chocolate's little known cousin (Theobroma bicolor) | Weird Fruit Explorer
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Sweden's Foreign Minister Ann Linde said she won't return a historical document to Poland, as it was a “legitimate” spoil of war
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The etymologies of military ranks
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