Obituary: Remembering Doug Lenat (1950–2023) and his quest to capture the world with logic
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Three medieval tales about adventures to the Moon - from three different cultures
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The dead man’s gambit: The crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight 961
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Tempest over Texas: The crash of Braniff International Airways flight 352
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Bubble Tea, also called Boba, is everywhere. But who made it first?
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Why we didn’t get a malaria vaccine sooner
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Ancient Beat - A weekly newsletter about developments in the study of the ancient world
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Copa 71: When 112,500 fans packed out the unofficial Women’s World Cup final
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Fajitas, a Mexican dish that was really born in Texas
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Archeologists in Norway found an arrow that was likely trapped in ice for 4,000 years
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The early history of counting
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The number of strikes rippling across the US seem big, but the total number of Americans walking off the job remains historically low
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A wrong turn in fog off the California coast led to the largest peacetime disaster in American naval history
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No Meat Required - Alicia Kennedy’s new book explores the tensions and triumphs of leaving meat behind
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Prefatory remarks on 'Oppenheimer'
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The real Betty Crocker's pineapple upside down cake
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What would you change about your past if you could?
If you had only ONE OPPORTUNITY to change ONE event in your past, what would you have changed? I would never have ended my relationship the way I did, with cheating.
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To mark the 1920 ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, activist Crystal Eastman described the path to full freedom for American women
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The world’s oldest cat door has been letting working cats enter the cathedral since the 14th Century
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Bobbi Gibb: The Boston Marathon pioneer who raced a lie that women couldn't run marathons
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Ferris Bueller: The sitcom | Forgotten Failures
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The Baťa Skyscraper in Zlín, Czechia is a landmark of architecture. And inside it, the office of Jan Antonín Baťa... is an elevator.
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The world’s last internet cafes
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Cruelty of chance: The Cerritos mid-air collision and the crash of Aeroméxico flight 498
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Casio CALEID XM-700 Mobile Navigator (1997)
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Interview: Tom Moulton, father of the Disco Mix (1976)
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“The Famous F40” vector illustration by David Rumfelt
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Fifty years on, Swedish psychiatrists are now calling the infamous Stockholm syndrome a 'constructed concept' used to explain away the failures of the State
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Learning how to garden a forest - discussion of methods to prevent wildfire
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New BBC drama series set in Magdalene Laundries - shows gaslighting, shame and abuse of unwed mothers of all ages
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Everything you didn't know about Ukraine's flag
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One win, 17,000 defeats - life as a Washington General
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The highest-ranking penguin in the world, Sir Nils Olav III, has been promoted to Major General by the Norwegian King's Guard
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The day women shut down Iceland
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How one company owns color
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How Japan's maglev train works
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Long barrows are Neolithic constructions that might have been churches, or graveyards, or landmarks. And some are being built again: for the first time in recorded history.
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Exposed: Slum photography was at the heart of progressive campaigns against urban poverty. And it was a weapon against poor people.
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On this day nineteen years ago, Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' was stolen in broad daylight from an Oslo museum
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The last campfire in Swedish society – Sommar i P1, the radio show that unifies a nation
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Antonov’s curse: The crash of Sepahan Airlines flight 5915 and the story of the An-140
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How the car came to Los Angeles
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More than thirty years after its publication, picture book Daddy's Roommate has once again found itself the target of censorship
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Mediocre Samurai describes real life in historical Japan
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Fifteen years ago, Tom Cruise revived his career with an uncredited role in Tropic Thunder
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Turning milk into clothing
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Thousands of Yiddish pulp fiction stories finally seeing the light of day
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The history of the Minnesota Vikings | Part one: 1960s
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‘His name was Bélizaire’: Rare portrait of enslaved child arrives at the Met
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The biggest bank heist in history (and why you've never heard of it)
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