Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened
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An accidental breakthrough in Iceland revealed how to tap into magma itself, potentially unlocking geothermal energy at scales previously thought impossible
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The World War I plan to turn America’s trees into telephones
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Wildfires expose — and detonate — buried bombs and mines from World War I and World War II
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Ordinary Abundance
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Fifty years ago, cosmic rays may have caused Apollo astronauts to see lights (2023)
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Gualliguaica - The drowning town
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New passenger train linking Finland and Sweden has begun running – creates the first rail connection between northern Finland and southern Europe in nearly forty years
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PBS station sues to regain access to seventy years of archival TV history
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The (actual) biggest hits of the 1970s
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In 1990, a writer had a funny idea. Now it’s a movie - Coyote vs. Acme. (gifted link)
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Clothing, how did they make it? Part I: high fiber.
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Olsen Banden - Elverhøj
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Every July, around 60,000 dance enthusiasts gather in Seinäjoki for the Finnish Tango Festival, one of the world's oldest and largest tango events
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What we lost when we quit using crappy old web forums
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The first website was launched thirty-five years ago
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The cast of "The Pitt" will do a live table reading of the first broadcast episode of "Star Trek" to celebrate the show’s 60th anniversary and benefit the Writers' Guild Foundation
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Let's all meet up in the Y2K
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How a combination of strategy and supreme racing made history for Kimi Räikkönen at the 2005 Suzuka Grand Prix
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A thread about the history of streetcars in the US
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Is music just sound? A creative technologist's perspective on AI-generated music.
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The mystery of the Wikipedia high-five photos couple
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Games at the press of a button: The Rip-O-Bot (1989)
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Eventually you'll get pretend cancer: the bizarre world of candy cigarettes
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Robyn's ‘Dancing on My Own’ keeps appearing in movies and television shows – the epitome of catharsis, the Swedish artist's tune is what music experts call a ‘sad banger’
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WOFF 1.0: a milestone on W3C’s journey of fonts on the web
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A free interactive night map of the world's great castles, fortresses and palaces
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With swords, axes and shields, competitors from thirty countries are going head-to-head in the grounds of a Danish fortress in a modern version of old-fashioned battle
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How Die Zeit built a searchable database of Nazi party members
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Long time no sea: finding the seahorse emoji
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Swedish nonprofit owner of Viking ship used in The Odyssey says studio has not paid bill for damage
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Most visitors come to Norway for its dramatic western fjords – but the country's most extraordinary drive heads in the opposite direction
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2,871 abandoned and little-known US airfields
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A Roman scroll that should be ash has just been read without ever being opened
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The sandpaper cover of The Return of the Durutti Column
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Nootka lupins, introduced in the 1940s to repair damaged soil, are rampaging across Iceland and threatening its native species
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Palantir has a nemesis and I accidentally found him
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Big Boy no. 4014
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An oil boom, a supermarket opportunity and decades of adaptation transformed the taco from a Tex-Mex import into one of Norway's most beloved traditions
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The end of reading is here
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NASA’s giant wind tunnels
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England and Norway renew a rivalry, better known for one famous piece of commentary from 1981 rather than football, when they meet in the 2026 World Cup quarter-finals in Miami
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Nearly forty years after launch, NetHack just got a 5.0.0 release with over 3,000 patch notes
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Rare copy of Declaration of Independence found by UK National Archives in papers of captured US ship
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Wit, unker, git: the lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy
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Finland's last landline call has been made as the Nordic country becomes the latest to retire copper-wire phones in favour of fibre
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The meaning of 'hack'
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Pre-modern armies for worldbuilders, part III: paying for it
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Twenty years of open movies: what’s next?
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Epidurals are a miracle technology
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