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The methodical plan to erase Chicago
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‘He craved an Oscar’: James Baldwin’s long campaign to crack Hollywood
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Japan’s “Wasan” mathematical tradition: Surprising discoveries in an age of seclusion
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The state as blunt force - impressions of the Columbia campus clearance
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How many clicks does it take to get to the center of Diablo? [A franchise retrospective]
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Cassava: The perilous past and promising future of a toxic but nourishing crop
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Viral lost song ‘Ulterior Motives’ found in obscure ‘80s porn flick
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The Lonely Island beginnings | The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast - Episode 1
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Free Companies: The age of mercenary companies
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The world's oldest hat shop that fitted James Bond
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B-17 Flying Fortress | Units of History
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The beautiful dissociation of the Japanese language
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Cocoa price swings are the craziest since the 1970s
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Remembering the time Throbbing Gristle played at a private school
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What the first astronauts (and cosmonauts) ate - Food in space
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Utopian Scholastic
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Does light itself truly have an infinite lifetime?
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Eleanor Johnson on how medieval christian writers accepted ecological collapse in contrast to evangelicals today
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Fellow Canadians, what's on your mind this week?
I'm preoccupied with a couple of things. The first being that the federal budget was just released and I'm feeling like a national school lunch program and an injection of money into housing with...
I'm preoccupied with a couple of things.
The first being that the federal budget was just released and I'm feeling like a national school lunch program and an injection of money into housing with the expectation that cities build higher density dwellings is... Something they should have done mid mandate?
Is there even time to implement this stuff? Are we getting close to the point where we've spent too much?
Second is a quote from a compilation of personal accounts from travellers into this country's north in the 1800s. Farley Mowat assembled the stories and wrote the forward for "Tundra" in the 1960s and says the following
"Until 50 or 60 years ago, the Arctic was a living reality to North Americans of every walk of life. It had become real because men of their own kind were daring it's remote fastness in search of pure adventure", unprotected by the vast mechanical shields that we now demand whenever we step out of our air conditioned sanctuaries".
He goes on to talk about how -- most of all -- easily heated dwellings and running water had a softening effect on people, and that (basically) we fear and avoid Canada's climate far more than our forebearers did.
Wondering what people's thoughts on this are.
From what you learned from grandparents or earlier generations about spending time outside, would you agree that the comforts of home are just too damned seductive?
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Making the Macintosh: Technology and culture in Silicon Valley
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Zilog discontinues production of original Z80 processor after forty-eight years
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The story of The Oregon Trail
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Oysters: The luxury delicacy that was once a fast-food fad
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Why Frank Lloyd Wright was so good
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Fifty years later, this Apollo-era antenna still talks to Voyager 2
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Turning old maps into 3D digital models of lost neighborhoods
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Remembering the man who helped save Star Trek the original series
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Why the short-lived Calvin and Hobbes is still one of the most beloved and influential comic strips
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The forgotten war on beepers
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How the 18th-century gay bar survived and thrived in a deadly environment
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The Museum of Science and Industry abruptly closed for a day last week to allow it to move “military artifacts from archival storage”
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There used to be a people’s bank at the US Post Office
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‘It’s plain elitist’: anger at Greek plan for €5,000 private tours of Acropolis
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Everybody's obsessed with the retro corporate aesthetic
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The hazy evolution of cannabis
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In the years after World War II, neutral, peace-loving Sweden embarked on an ambitious plan – build its own atomic bomb
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Volvo is celebrating its 97th birthday with the opening of what it calls "World of Volvo" in the company's hometown of Gothenburg, Sweden
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Six badass librarians who changed history
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How to make a time capsule
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We made and distilled the 1886 Pemberton Coca Cola recipe from 'Glen And Friends' then taste tested the results with Glen
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The making of Pentiment
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Airline food during the golden age of air travel
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Explore Edvard Munch's masterpiece “The Scream,” and find out why this artwork became one of the world's most famous paintings | Noah Charney
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Insular India - A video on the archaeological legacies of the Indian subcontinent
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ABBA, cabaret and smug marionettes – the 1974 Eurovision song contest reviewed
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Beastie Boys paid for Donna Lee Parsons gender-affirming surgery
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Saffron: The story of the world’s most expensive spice
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The lone prospectors keeping the legacy of the gold rush alive
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On the nature of ancient evidence
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