The story of Jimmy Hasty, Irish football's one-armed wonder
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Fifty years ago today Dock Ellis famously threw a no-hitter while tripping on acid
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How data became one of the most powerful tools to fight an epidemic
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HBO Max temporarily removes Gone with the Wind because of ‘racist depictions’
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The evolution of game genres on early Nintendo consoles: NES, Game Boy, and SNES
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A neat introduction to representation theory and its impact on mathematics
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How Hong Kong caught fire: The story of a radical uprising
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My favourite football game – when Denmark beat Uruguay 6-1 at the 1986 World Cup (Michael Gibbons, co-author of "Danish Dynamite" with Rob Smyth and Lars Eriksen)
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How seventy years of cop shows taught us to valorize the police
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Modern Marvels: The Manhattan Project
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When phones were fun: Samsung's "Matrix Phone" (2003)
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What if the internet never existed?
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Marie Curie's PhD thesis
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Last person to receive an American Civil War pension dies
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Retrotech: The Novell NetWare Experience
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Why helicopter airlines failed
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The story of how NASA went from space shuttles to SpaceX and commercial rockets
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Trump's "law and order" rhetoric won't help him like Nixon in 1968
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Bach's Brandenberg Concerto No. 3 played on period instruments
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John Titor
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Riots are the American way: The US was founded on revolutionary blood; the Civil War took 400,000 lives and the civil rights movement was a reaction to white violence
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Did the Italians actually teach the French the art of the vinaigrette?
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1968 and 2020: How they resemble each other and how they don't
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How conspiracy theories fueled the US civil war
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US court grants permission to recover Marconi telegraph from Titanic wreckage—but NOAA is fiercely opposed to the controversial salvage mission
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Australia's High Court decides 'Palace letters' written during the Whitlam dismissal can be accessed by historian Jenny Hocking
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Underwater aircraft carriers: Imperial Japan’s secret weapon
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GE switches off light bulb business after almost 130 years
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Subutai: Genghis Khan’s demon dog of war
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The cool history of ice cream (in America) | The Ice Cream Show Episode 9
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Get in shape girl: A century of working out from home
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IBM's dance notation typewriter
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The tempest prognosticator
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How To Drink's top five tiki drinks
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The insane engineering of the A-10 Warthog
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The corruption of the Republican Party: The modern GOP is best understood as an insurgency that carried the seeds of its own corruption from the start
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The game that ate the world: Forty facts on Pac-Man's 40th birthday
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The birth of NASAs space program | The Saturn V Story
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Perfect Dark: The oral history of an N64 classic
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Most watched American TV series 1951 – 2019
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Ahmaud Arbery was lynched: He was killed in the street by White men. That’s how lynchings work
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How vodka ruined Russia
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When SimCity got serious: the story of Maxis Business Simulations and SimRefinery
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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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