Making Doom and building the FPS industry at 100 miles per hour | John Romero interview
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The Summer Book (1972) – Tove Jansson's novel about love, family and nature, will make you nostalgic for your own childhood
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Complacency kills: The crash of Continental Airlines flight 1713
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Obituary - Evelyn Boyd Granville, mathematician and programmer, space-flight trailblazer (1924—2023)
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This town banned cars (except tiny electric ones)
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Switchel - The farmer's Gatorade of the 19th century
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"Motors and Generators" (1961)
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s FLIP vessel decommissioned after sixty years
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Critical conversations: The crash of Eastern Airlines flight 212
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Klaksvíkar Ítróttarfelag from the tiny Faroe Islands have been causing a stir across Europe this summer, and things are about to get even better
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Volvo estate owners reminisce about Swedish workhorse before its withdrawal from UK market
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Historian finds evidence for use of y'all in London from 1600s
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RFK Stadium | Abandoned
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The San Francisco cable car's (not quite as famous) Welsh cousin
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How cruise ships got so big
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Charles Henry Turner’s insights into animal behavior were a century ahead of their time
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The team behind Super Smash Bros. Brawl
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Lens rotation (United States Lighthouse Society)
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Why Pac-Man won
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The buttons on Zenith’s original ‘clicker’ remote were a mechanical marvel
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Witchy women: A Sabrina the Teenage Witch retrospective
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Riddick Bowe became the undisputed world heavyweight champion at age 25 by defeating Holyfield. Today we recall the comedy, drama, legendary old school battles, and ruthless aggression he embodied.
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The blue flash: How a careless slip led to a fatal accident in the Manhattan Project
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Twitter’s future is a return to Elon Musk’s past
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How America fell out of love with ice cream
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Faced with scrap material inside a particle accelerator, physicists used a ferret to try to solve the problem
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Drama in the snow: The crash of Scandinavian Airlines flight 751
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How a World War II submarine works
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True size of a Spartan army - The real source of its strength
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The bewildering architecture of skybridges
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Sinead O'Connor - War (Bob Marley, SNL 1992)
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The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives
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How to eat like a Celt
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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The Digital Antiquarian: Diablo
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How “Big Ag” pollutes America’s water, and makes money doing it
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New Florida standards in schools
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Man found guilty in 2012 of supporting distribution of child porn, because he ran a Tor exit node – the story of William Weber
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The Marian reforms weren't a thing
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Camp Century - The Hidden City Beneath the Ice
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When Greenland was green: Ancient soil from beneath a mile of ice offers warnings for the future
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'Oppenheimer' brings painful memories of nuclear testing radiation exposure for New Mexico Native Americans and Hispanics
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‘They found ways to do the impossible’: Hipgnosis, the designers who changed the record sleeve for ever
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Why Oppenheimer deserves his own movie
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Scenes from a fallen empire: Abandoned Russian bases dot Mongolia’s border
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Bruce Lee’s garage startup years in Oakland laid the groundwork for MMA
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A look back at some robotic inventions that didn't quite get there
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Philadelphia I-95 bridge collapse explained
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