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54 votes
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Investigating the most extreme ancient village in the United States
9 votes -
Surviving the Titanic - dining on Carpathia
12 votes -
Thinking on storage
9 votes -
The XVIII best films about the Romans – ranked
6 votes -
What sort of pets did medieval people keep?
21 votes -
Duracell PowerCheck: A genius idea which didn't last that long
51 votes -
The United States of beer, mapsplained - Phil Edwards (former Vox) explains the history of beer in America
6 votes -
Remains of Andrew 'Sandy' Irvine believed to have been found on Everest
14 votes -
Advanced technology discovered under Neolithic dwelling in Denmark – a stone paved root cellar, which could represent a remarkable technological leap in resource preservation
14 votes -
Little Monsters (1989) | Almost Cult Classics
6 votes -
Recreating dog food from the last 2,000 years
7 votes -
Iceland has been the backdrop for generations of astronaut training missions – we look at what makes the Arctic island nation so crucial for Moon research
4 votes -
Iceland's famous music venues swallowed by tourism – thriving music scene that gave world Björk, Sigur Rós and Ólafur Arnald under threat from Reykjavík's popularity
6 votes -
Using randomizers to play Zelda like it's 1987
10 votes -
The rapidly growing tram system of Helsinki – taking a look at the network's history, lines, technical details, tram fleet, ridership, and the future
12 votes -
America’s first cross-country auto race
2 votes -
German Navy Enigma machine systems were different to the Army, making them tougher to crack. In this video, James Grime discusses the differences and what Alan Turing achieved in breaking the code.
8 votes -
Following Norway’s national painter through a landscape of mountains and fjords – Harald Sohlberg is celebrated within his native country and almost unknown outside it
5 votes -
Where does punctuation come from?!
15 votes -
Nintendo shows off Mario, Zelda, and 135 years of history in a new Kyoto museum
10 votes -
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre at fifty
5 votes -
Operation Match: The dating service that changed our love lives
4 votes -
A brief history of the end of the world
9 votes -
‘SNL’ debut cast and crew look back on fifty seasons
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45 years ago CompuServe connected the world before the World Wide Web
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How did Scandinavian Airlines flight 751 survive after losing power in both engines just one minute after takeoff?
10 votes -
Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi's paintings had a recurring mysterious woman with her back turned – here, through letters and photos, her sadness-tinged story is revealed
11 votes -
Conan O'Brien flops! (1993)
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Inside Iron Mountain: It’s time to talk about hard drives
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The ‘Super Emmys’ flopped fifty years ago. But that shouldn’t minimize this historic ‘Mary Tyler Moore Show’ win. (gifted link)
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We may be close to rediscovering thousands of texts that had been lost for millennia. Their contents may reshape how we understand the Ancient World.
41 votes -
Tapedeck.org is a digital archive that features hundreds of cassette tape designs
13 votes -
The theory that men evolved to hunt and women evolved to gather is wrong
58 votes -
The original Star Trek USS Enterprise filming model
6 votes -
Lessons from the golden age of the mall walkers
6 votes -
The origin story behind Counter-Strike's most iconic map
17 votes -
An in-depth look at Romance in video games
17 votes -
If you could send someone to any historic moment, who and when?
It's been a while since we had a lighthearted talk on here about something silly, and this question has been bouncing around my head for years now. Figured it'd be fun to ask and see what people...
It's been a while since we had a lighthearted talk on here about something silly, and this question has been bouncing around my head for years now. Figured it'd be fun to ask and see what people come up with!
So, you can take one person from any time period and send them to any historic event for a duration of your choice. You can go for serious stuff, like sending a bodyguard to save someone from an assassination, or yourself to some moment in history you're curious about... Or you could send Stephen Hawking to his own time traveler party. Maybe throw some conspiracy theorist at Roswell 1947 or let some ancient king crash Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee.
The options are literally limitless. I'm just interested to see what everyone comes up with!
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Why GitHub actually won
21 votes -
Did Sandia use a thermonuclear secondary in a product logo?
41 votes -
Microsoft Graveyard: a website for tracking dead and soon-to-be-dead Microsoft products
39 votes -
Is accidentally stumbling across the unknown a key part of science?
7 votes -
Building Civilization | A Sid Meier retrospective
6 votes -
The glass door of Wikipedia’s notable people
10 votes -
Review: The Soft Boys "Underwater Moonlight" (1980) (Illinois Entertainer, 2001)
3 votes -
As California dam removal wraps up, river flows for first time in century
17 votes -
End of the road: An AnandTech farewell
53 votes -
US National Security Agency releases footage of Rear Admiral Grace Hopper speech from the 1980s
32 votes -
The history of early bookcases, cupboards and carousels
12 votes