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4 votes
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The history of a Cold War mastermind: Gus Weiss, a shrewd intelligence insider, pulled off an audacious tech hack against the Soviets in the last century. Or did he?
4 votes -
Why medieval cats look like… that
15 votes -
The "Nintendo PlayStation" prototype was purchased at auction for $300,000 by Greg McLemore, founder of Pets.com who now runs the International Arcade Museum
10 votes -
Explosive barrels
13 votes -
A new interactive map visualizes the queer geography of 20th-century America
7 votes -
Rum rations in the navy during the 18th century: Grog
7 votes -
The genesis of the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic
5 votes -
The Life of a Data Byte
3 votes -
Why we need worst-case thinking: Threats to humanity, and how we address them, define our time. Why are we still so complacent about facing up to existential risk?
5 votes -
Listen to one of the five guitars still in existence manufactured by legendary instrument maker Antonio Stradivari
11 votes -
The story of the PS2’s backwards compatibility by Tetsuya Iida, the engineer who built it
10 votes -
Sweden's Melodifestivalen is celebrating its 60th year – why a national Eurovision show won global fans
4 votes -
The history of the URL
9 votes -
Reply All #158 - The Case of the Missing Hit
7 votes -
The BMW logo – meaning and history
4 votes -
The growth of command line options, 1979 - present
8 votes -
The awakening of Norman Rockwell
7 votes -
The twenty-year argument between Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren over bankruptcy, explained
10 votes -
Origin and evolution of playing card designs
6 votes -
VHSVault - A large VHSRip archive has been posted to the Internet Archive
9 votes -
"Pyke notte thy nostrellys." A 15th-century guide on children's manners has been digitized for first time
10 votes -
Knitting’s tangled history: From aristocrats to punks, the humble yarn has spun its way through centuries of social change
3 votes -
The CED: RCA's Very Late, Very Weird Video Gamble (Pt. 1)
5 votes -
From Nelson's apple to beef wellington: How war changes the way we eat
3 votes -
Covid-19 could mark the end of affluence politics in the USA, as the possibility of a global pandemic reveals the inability to make and distribute the things people need
21 votes -
The Pope's Astronomer, Telescopes, & Space Rocks
Three related videos of Brady Haran in Italy interviewing Brother Guy Consolmagno, director of The Vatican Observatory, were released today on his various channels... and rather than submit them...
Three related videos of Brady Haran in Italy interviewing Brother Guy Consolmagno, director of The Vatican Observatory, were released today on his various channels... and rather than submit them individually:
The Pope's Astronomer - Sixty Symbols
The Pope's Telescopes - Deep Sky Videos
The Pope's Space Rocks - Objectivity #2216 votes -
"Theire Soe Admirable Herbe": How the English Found Cannabis
5 votes -
Myst (or, the drawbacks to success)
10 votes -
Dr. Michael Hudson: Economic lessons (from 2008) for 2020
3 votes -
Gopher: When adversarial interoperability burrowed under the gatekeepers' fortresses
8 votes -
How the US has changed to become gradually more democratic over time
4 votes -
Decades-old photography from the U-2 spy program now offers a time machine to see traces of the historical and ancient past
11 votes -
The outsize, oft-ignored legacy of the original Dragon Quest
6 votes -
Andy Warhol's 1950s erotic drawings of men to be seen for first time - not displayed before due to homophobia artist encountered
14 votes -
Game Boy Pocket Sonar: Find fish with the Game Boy
3 votes -
Major League Baseball may restructure its playoffs to add teams and primetime drama. The changes would pit purists against progressives.
7 votes -
Mad Max at forty: How the low-budget original remains a film-making feat
7 votes -
The difference between yams and sweet potatoes is structural racism
10 votes -
That time when the US government wanted Americans to use one dollar coins
6 votes -
Modern copyright law is a joke
8 votes -
The story of Tetris
8 votes -
The deal of the century (or, the alliance of losers)
6 votes -
A history of Simlish, the language that defined The Sims
11 votes -
The YouTube copyright metagame part 1: The history of Copyright on YouTube and How YouTubers deal with it
7 votes -
'The Stranger' was Australia's first locally-produced science fiction television show and one of the first Australian series to be sold overseas
ABC's media release: 'The Stranger' was Australia's first locally-produced science fiction television show and one of the first Australian series to be sold overseas. (Ignore the references to...
ABC's media release: 'The Stranger' was Australia's first locally-produced science fiction television show and one of the first Australian series to be sold overseas. (Ignore the references to 'Doctor Who'; the only connection they have is that they were both science fiction shows made in the mid-1960s. I suspect that show is name-dropped just to get people's interest.)
I've been watching this show. I'm 5 episodes in, which means I'm up to the last episode of the 1st season, with another 6 episodes in the 2nd season (only 12 eps in total).
It's bad but also good (not in the "so bad it's good" way). The production isn't great: the special effects are low-grade, the sets are ordinary, the acting ranges from hammy to wooden, and the writing is clunky. However, despite all that, I find myself hooked. I want to know what's going to happen next. It's an interesting premise: the remnants of an alien species eking out an existence inside a rocket-equipped moon, having left their home planet after an unspecified ecological disaster, to seek out a new home. The plot is good enough to drag me along with it. It also has historical curiosity value.
I doubt it's available outside of Australia, but here's the streaming link. Be warned: it's very slow-paced to start with. The first episode doesn't even mention aliens, and the second episode only has hints.
7 votes -
A brief history of quantum mechanics
7 votes -
The dot-com bubble - Five minute history lesson
8 votes -
There may never ever be another man as powerful as Stanislav Petrov
7 votes -
Russian and Egyptian multiplication
5 votes