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NASA is naming its newest space telescope for pioneering astronomer Nancy Grace Roman, marking the first time in the agency’s history that one of its major programs has been named for a woman
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War, colonialism, and industrialism | The worldbuilding of Avatar
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The lessons of the Great Depression
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Twitter thread about Doug Geisler, an astronomy grad student who was at Manastash Ridge Observatory forty years ago when Mount St. Helens exploded 140 miles away
@emsque: Exactly #40YearsAgo Doug Geisler was asleep atop Manastash Ridge Observatory. An astronomy grad student, he'd just logged his first excellent night at the telescope for his PhD thesis. He was the only person on the summit, ~90 miles from #MountStHelens... #MSH40
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Grading the electoral college: C for chaos
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Non-glamorous gains: The Pennsylvania land tax experiment
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How Prince of Persia defeated Apple II's memory limitations | War Stories
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The paranoid style in American politics: It had been around a long time before the Radical Right discovered it (1964)
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Perfect Dark turns twenty - The definitive story behind the N64 hit that outclassed James Bond
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World War Two animated: Western Front 1940
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ABBA's 'Waterloo' has been named the greatest Eurovision song of all time by BBC viewers
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An ode to the unexpected whimsy (and strength) of your mail delivery
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Algonquin Round Table: How the group of writers became a symbol of the roaring twenties
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Algorithms associating appearance and criminality have a dark past
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The history of Ninja Gaiden world records
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At the limits of thought: Science today stands at a crossroads--will its progress be driven by human minds or by the machines that we’ve created?
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Apollo 11: From lunar orbit to landing
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Too black, too queer, too holy: why Little Richard never truly got his dues -- How did a turbaned drag queen from the sexual underground of America’s Deep South ignite rock’n’roll?
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The great geomagnetic storm of May 1921
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1998: Apple's iMac is full of flash, dash, but has a few big holes
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Where Dr. Anothony Fauci came from — and the crisis that shaped his career
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The Swiss at war: Bellicose Swiss and an ambitious Duke - The Burgundian Wars Pt. 1
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The history of Creative Assembly
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Fried crème brûlée cooked three times | 18th Century Cooking
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The LGBT stars of old Hollywood
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How "Taco Friday" became a Swedish tradition: Toppings include pineapples, peanuts, and cucumbers
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'Lovers of Modena' skeletal find were both men; researchers quick to reassess their relationship
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Welcome to the age of privacy nihilism
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The woman who founded Mother's Day in the US eventually came to regret it
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The history of Adventures in Wonderland | DefunctTV
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Learn about three famous paintings from one of the National Gallery’s curators
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The hunt for the German battleship Tirpitz, '42-44
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America’s ‘fried chicken war’
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The story of Dimrain47
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This video has 16,905 likes (that's 689,333 fewer than Tom's!)
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The cost of free doughnuts: Seventy years of regret
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When business plans blow up: management lessons from WWII
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How we got to Sesame Street
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Republicans are sacrificing other Americans' freedoms for their own, like once happened in the American Civil War
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Smallpox and the long road to eradication
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systemd, 10 years later: a historical and technical retrospective
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Polish sound postcards (pocztówka dźwiękowa)
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Love Bug's creator tracked down to repair shop in Manila
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Do you think there is anything from the past we should bring back?
(Hot take alert) I personally think mass protests should be brought back. Many governments around the world are rejecting democracy and so can really only be held accountable with drastic...
(Hot take alert)
I personally think mass protests should be brought back. Many governments around the world are rejecting democracy and so can really only be held accountable with drastic measures. I'd even argue people should be armed and follow domething like in the Charlottesville gun rallies or the 1968 DNC riots as a model for protesting particularly egregious stuff like Trump's impeachment trial. A few hundred thousand armed people pointing at the US Senate saying 'A trial without witnesses is unconstitutional, the president is not above the law' would definitely send a message to the Republicans there and watching in FOX.
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Why the An-225 Mriya is such a badass plane
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Tribes along India-Myanmar border dream of a 'united Nagaland'
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Fruit trenches: Cultivating subtropical plants in freezing temperatures
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A history of vintage electronics: The Guglielmo Marconi Collection and the history of wireless communications
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Scientists stage sword fights to study Bronze Age warfare
9 votes