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America: 200 years of responding to epidemics from The Saturday Evening Post ~humanities.history Link 4 votes
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Why didn't anyone copy the Roman army? - The imitation legions ~humanities.history Video 17:56 3 votes
The single most important lesson from the 1918 influenza pandemic: tell the truth ~health Article 1664 words 8 votes
An interview with Masayuki Uemura, the engineer who designed the Famicom and helped take Nintendo into video games ~games Article 2070 words 5 votes
Greenland glacier collapse – a new study combining historical photos with evidence from ocean sediments suggests climate change was already at work in the 1930s ~enviro climate change Article 548 words 8 votes
Floodlines - An eight-part narrative podcast thoroughly reassessing Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, fifteen years later ~enviro Article 133 words 4 votes
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A new interactive map visualizes the queer geography of 20th-century America ~lgbt history Article 1343 words 7 votes
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The genesis of the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic ~health Video 1:08:09, published May 1 2014 5 votes
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The story of the PS2’s backwards compatibility by Tetsuya Iida, the engineer who built it ~games Article 2234 words 10 votes
Listen to one of the five guitars still in existence manufactured by legendary instrument maker Antonio Stradivari ~music Link 11 votes