Sweden has halved its borrowing since facing financial meltdown in the 1990s, without raising taxes – and what Britain can learn from this experience
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How did Atari apply side art to Arcade Cabinets?
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Ruins of the web: Hello Internet
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An interactive introduction to the terrific experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt
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Worldbuilding guide: airships - historical lessons
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How we made hit video game Prince of Persia
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Ståle Solbakken leads Norway to first major tournament in twenty-six years knowing that, with Erling Haaland up front, anything can happen at the 2026 World Cup
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Storied Colors - indexed and searchable color history
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100 years of television design
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A vernacular web (2005, Olia Lialina)
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Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame.
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Why Japanese companies do so many different things
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Tristan Davey's punch card archive
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‘Dangerous Woman’ at ten: How Ariana Grande’s album overcame challenges to become her signature release
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NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code in a 1970s-era programming language that almost nobody on Earth fully understands anymore
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The Web Design Museum released forty-four classic Cartoon Network Flash games from the early 2000s, now playable in the browser
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Spanish Civil War animated
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Did Disney really steal Aladdin?
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Berlin museum oversees digital resurrection of hundreds of paintings destroyed during World War II
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Farewell, Jeeves: Ask.com shuts down
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The greatest documentary you've never heard of - Tie Xi Qu (铁西区) by Wang Bing
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Turbo-Culture
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The Blade (1995): The edges of wuxia | Criterion x Every Frame a Painting
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Original Apollo 11 code open-sourced by NASA
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The origins of Oxford's 750-year-old library
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The history of lipstick
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How do you preserve a 400 year old Swedish warship? Vasamuseet in Stockholm is tackling the continued challenge of maintaing the 17th century Vasa.
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The oldest recipe in history - Hammurabi's Kanasu stew
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How Copenhagen built a metro for free by capturing land value to finance infrastructure
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A brief history of fish sauce
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The Armenian Needlelace Initiative is dedicated to the study and evolution of Armenian needlelace traditions in relationship with ancestral lifeways and lands
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Terminator: The story of the 6502 code you see onscreen
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Finnish transport minister Lulu Ranne says a long-delayed cross-border train to Sweden should begin rolling this summer
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Why Copenhagen is so well-run
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New search engine reveals if ancestors were in Nazi party
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Arcade Game Flyer perfect catalogue 懐かしのアーケードゲームカタログ(仮) (G-MOOK)
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Wit, unker, git: the lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy
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Pentimento: When painters change their minds and the past peeks through
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A timeline of White House renovations through the years
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Pioneering Finnish artist Claire Aho brought wit, verve and cinematic flair to postwar photography – a new exhibition celebrates her vibrant visual style
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Over 200 years after being sunk by the British Royal Navy under Admiral Horatio Nelson, one of Denmark's most famous warships has been discovered at the bottom of Copenhagen Harbor
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Moomins are the billion dollar comic franchise Americans don't know about
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Norway's cherished Eastertime obsession of retreating to isolated cabins to binge crime fiction
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Fan-translation projects - thirty-three years of history
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Tattooing in the American Civil War was a hedge against anonymous death
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ENIAC’s 80th anniversary: a legacy of innovation
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Musketeer d'Artagnan's remains believed found under Dutch church
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Revisiting a 1958 map of space mysteries
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The Candlemakers' Petition by Frédéric Bastiat (1845)
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Gold eyes worst month against oil since 1973; mining stocks slump most since 2008
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