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5 votes
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Sucks to be him! How Henry the vacuum cleaner became an accidental design icon
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History of game jams
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Pirate guacamole & bumbo
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When an NBA player's shoe falls off, chaos reigns
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The story behind the iconic Vietnam episode of 'Hey Arnold!'
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Do you know any books, articles, videos, etc. about how relationships (friendships, dating, etc) worked in the past? If so, then why do they rarely appear when people talk about them?
Occasionally people here get into discussions about social relationships, namely dating, and what quickly comes up is how both of those seem to be less common and harder to 'get'. This more...
Occasionally people here get into discussions about social relationships, namely dating, and what quickly comes up is how both of those seem to be less common and harder to 'get'. This more frequently happens in overtly dating and relationship subreddits and similar dedicated spaces, albeit, of course, this also pops up in more general communities, alongside any community where social relationships are an important topic, like communities about social ideologies like feminism or the manosphere or about genders because heterosexuality.
One thing I often find is missing is some historical context. A lot of talk about loneliness and lack of platonic or romantic relationships is basically limited to the recent past, if it even talks about the past at all. It seems like it would be helpful to look at what relationships and dating were like 10, 20, 30 years ago when it comes to talking about the problems or just general state of both today. So do you know of good sources of information concerning relationships in the past? If so, then why do you think they don't pop up in discussions about dating?
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The hook: Scene transitions in classical cinema
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The ‘Men’s Liberation’ movement time forgot: Nowadays, the Men’s Rights movement runs the gamut from incels to red pillers, but in the 1970s, men's libbers looked something like… feminists?
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How do you solve a problem like Woody Allen's ‘Manhattan’?
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Frederick the Great: Gay king of Europe (and of the attempts at denying this)
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An oral history of Terminator 2: Judgment Day
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A brief history of grindhouse/exploitation film: From the birth of cinema to Tarantino
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Ise Jingu and the Pyramid of Enabling Technologies
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After Pop, We Dematerialize: Oscar Masotta, Happenings and Media Art At the Beginnings of Conceptualism by Ana Longoni and Mariano Mestman
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The internet feeds on its own dying dreams
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We've been telling the Alamo story wrong for nearly 200 years. Now it's time to correct the record
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Battle of Savo Island 1942: America's worst naval defeat
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Shooting Captured Insurgents (1898) A silent film review
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Vicious doctors and cruel diseases in 18th-Century Jamaica
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King of the Hill, again | Men of the Hill
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Avenging Varus and the loss at Teutoburg Forest - Battle of the Long Bridges (15 AD)
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Adobo: Filipino or Spanish?
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Computer Graphics Special (1986 High Quality 60FPS Laserdisc CG Demo Reel)
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The biggest cheating scandal in TrackMania history
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What is Asian American music, really? Seeking more than representation, a critic tries to make sense of a fragmented, disparate musical tradition
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America has a drinking problem
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WW2 animated: Western Front, 1944-1945. Part 1
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Super Mario Bros speedrunning: The human limit
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The doomed mouse utopia that inspired the ‘Rats of NIMH’. Dr. John Bumpass Calhoun spent the ’60s and ’70s playing god to thousands of rodents.
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The man who drank Cholera and launched the yogurt craze. Ilya Metchnikoff laid the foundation for modern probiotics.
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500 year-old Italian pizza recipe
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After thirty years, Street Fighter 2's mythical, unwinnable "10-0 matchup" has finally been proven to exist in the SNES beta version
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Werner's Nomenclature of Colours
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Star Citizen
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Battle of Drøbak Sound, 1940 - "Either I will be decorated or court martialed. Fire!"
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Flight of the Navigator | VFXcool
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Nearly a decade after becoming an advice animal, "10 guy" Connor Sinclair reveals his identity and gives full account of his image
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The secret history of Angostura Bitters
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Fifty years years of text games: LambdaMOO (1990)
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The full story of the 2011 hack into RSA Security
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The evolution of the frozen pizza
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How humanity has changed the food it eats
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A Finnish drink with a heroic past – in the 16th century, effervescent sima was more desired than beer and has since become the go-to beverage for ushering in spring
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Announcing Headstamp Publishing's new Kickstarter book | Pistols of the Warlords: Chinese domestic handguns, 1911 - 1949
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New Zealand: Fight for the Wild documentary series
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I found an article that said "The microwave was invented to heat hamsters humanely in 1950s experiments." And I thought, no it wasn't. ...was it?
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What is vintage base ball?
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Mutiny on the sex raft: How a 70s science project descended into violent chaos
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The fight over who can take credit for the invention of Flamin' Hot Cheetos
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