Promethean beasts - Far from being hardwired to flee fire, some animals use it to their own ends, helping us understand our own pyrocognition
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Why wind power ships may be the future of transportation
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Stephen Sondheim, titan of the American musical, is dead at 91
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Jeff Bezos vs Mansa Musa | Epic Rap Battles Of History
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Émile-Antoine Bayard's illustrations for 'Around the Moon' by Jules Verne (1870)
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No artist has explored the contradictions of humanity as sympathetically and critically as the Japanese animation legend Hayao Miyazaki
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The entire Soviet rocket engine family tree
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He created The Oregon Trail and he didn’t make a penny
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How road barriers stopped killing drivers
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Six indigenous Greenlanders taken as children to Denmark in a failed social experiment in 1951 are demanding compensation from the Danish state
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The Varangian Guard | Units of History
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The history of Wii Sports world records
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Witness History spoke to photographer Mark Edwards, who was given unique access to document a famously photo shy community of Christiania in Denmark
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Trackers: The sound of 16-Bit
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The jet that terrified the West: The MiG-25 Foxbat
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How Cuban is Cuban bread?
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Know how The Beatles ended? Peter Jackson may change your mind
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How much time, money and human cost went into Windows Vista? (2006)
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Megan Thee Stallion and fast food’s ongoing pursuit of Black buy-in
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Early on-demand music streaming required lots of nickels - In the Pacific Northwest 70-plus years ago, a telephone-based jukebox connected callers to their favorite tunes
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Meet the Swedish artist who hooked British rock royalty on her revolutionary crochet
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To break a book: Bibliophiles as book enemies
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Hand-built original Apple-1 fetches $400,000 at US auction
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The history of Katamari Damacy
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An extraordinary 500-year-old shipwreck is rewriting the history of the age of discovery
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The exploited rugby rule that led to a doctor purposely hurting a player
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For decades, US cities have been closing or neglecting public restrooms, leaving millions with no place to go. Here’s how a lack of toilets became an American affliction.
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WWII animated: Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-1941
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Human computer: The forgotten women's profession
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How Elvira busted through Hollywood to become the queen of Halloween
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The SAS Iranian Embassy siege, 1980 - Animated
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Capablanca: How I learned to play chess (1916)
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Can data die? Why one of the internet's oldest images lives on without its subject's consent.
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The World Series was rigged. Hugh Fullerton's revolutionary analysis backed it up. But in 1919 his calls were ignored by a game now transformed by data.
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David Zucker reflects on Airplane!
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We look at a fascinating object loaned to the Royal Society - a Campbell-Stokes sunshine recorder
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Welcome to Arrakis - Dune lore explained
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Drawing with light: How photos were made a century ago
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Space-related applications of Forth (1998)
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Women were the unseen healthcare providers of the Middle Ages
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Part of a Spitfire which was shot down over Norway during World War II has gone on display after being restored
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Texture Archaeology, Cobblestone, and the most overused texture from the 90s
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The lost history of the electric car – and what it tells us about the future of transport
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All that and a bag of chips: The history of Frito pie
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The increasingly absurd story of a never-solved 1980s puzzle with a $1,000,000 prize
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Sexist and offensive vintage ads that would never fly today, 1940-1980
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Hampster Economics - Pondering how a meme from a quarter-century ago might have gone over in today’s much-more-mature creator economy
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When hope is a hindrance
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Lehmer Factor Stencils: A paper factoring machine before computers
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What is chess hustling and how much do chess hustlers make?
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