Shouting at stars: A history of interstellar messages
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NYT photo essay: How NASA’s lunar photography brought the heavens down to Earth (gifted link)
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Sweden's leading business dynasty prepares for succession – the sixth generation of Wallenbergs is stepping up
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Ken Thompson recalls Unix’s rowdy, lock-picking origins
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Henrik Ibsen's anti-heroine Hedda Gabler is one of the greatest roles for women ever written – as new film Hedda is released, the character remains controversial
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Fury, a drama series inspired by the legendary Icelandic Sturlunga saga, is in the works with Benedict Andrews attached as director and showrunner
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The Icelandic women's strike fifty years on – despite closing the gender pay gap by 90%, the nation is ‘still no paradise’ for women, say campaigners
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In the early 1990s, Sweden faced one of the worst economic crises in its modern history – the lessons for other countries, especially France, deep in its own budget crisis, are simple, if not easy
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Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies
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How industrial slaughter became the blueprint for modern capitalism
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Denmark's brilliant painter of light – Anna Ancher learnt from the artists who flocked to her parents' hotel in Skagen, and forged her own path as a painter of radiant interiors
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How gay men used to speak - a short film in Polari
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First shape found that can’t pass through itself
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What’s the most iconic Michelin dish of all time? (ft. Alexander the Guest)
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In-car sat nav? Without a satellite? In 1971? | Tomorrow's World | Retro tech
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The hidden engineering of Niagara Falls
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This is not a ruined cottage | The Druridge Bay ruin
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The Icelandic volcanic island of Surtsey emerged in the 1960s, and scientists say studying its development offers hope for damaged ecosystems worldwide
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The genius logic of the NATO phonetic alphabet
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Two exhibitions in Norway and the UK bring together neglected treasures of printmaking from the Nordic region, including works by Edvard Munch
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The history of Cuphead world records
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Why cassette tapes are coming back
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2025 Physics Nobel awarded to three scientists for work on quantum computing (in the 1980s)
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Nobel Prize winner, Svante Pääbo, is investigating genetic changes that could have given our species a competitive advantage, and the possibility of extracting the genome of the Flores hobbit
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Cecilia Brækhus is the first woman to unify all four belts, first to headline a professional show in Norway, and a fighter whose influence helped scrap a ban on the sport in her homeland
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The Nobel Prize winners will be announced next week – what to know about the prestigious awards
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Not every NHL legend was drafted to be a star – Henrik Zetterberg almost wasn't drafted at all
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Do Red Dead Redemption 2's power lines connect to anything?
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Every summer, Spain's iconic Camino bakes under extreme heat – Norway's St Olav Ways offer pilgrims a quieter, cooler path to redemption
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Voices of the Manhattan Project: Peggy Bowditch’s interview
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The unknown genre in video games
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David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane artwork could fetch record sum at auction
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1988 - Welcome to the wild world of computer animation
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Where the power is - book review of "White Light: The Elemental Role of Phosphorus – in Our Cells, in Our Food and in Our World"
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The British empire’s role in ending slavery worldwide
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Technicolor's last frame: the collapse and liquidation of a Hollywood legend
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One of the most iconic performances in table tennis history – Jan-Ove Waldner at the 1997 World Championships in Manchester
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IRC - The Serial Port's love letter to Internet Relay Chat
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The making of Mondo – how Armand Duplantis is reaching new heights in pole vault
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Known as 'the trip chocolate', Kvikk Lunsj has fuelled outdoor Norwegian adventures for generations
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The genius plan to make Amsterdam car centric
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The color of the future - A history of blue
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Tim Curry says Rocky Horror was originally a 'failure' in rare interview
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How to build a 13th-century castle in rural France
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Radioactive hulk of aircraft carrier USS Independence located off San Francisco coast (2015)
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The day return became enter
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The hardest working font in Manhattan
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Russian Civil War, Winter 1917-1918
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Museum of Color - from ancient ochre to blacker than Vanta Black
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Ben-Hur on a computer screen
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