All posts tagged "history"
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2.7KSmart Life20 Years Ago, Google’s April 1st Joke Was the Revolutionary Gmail
Google’s jokes for April 1st have been the stuff of legend but this year we celebrate something very serious. 20 years ago...
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2.7KFutureMore Science Publications Ban the Use of A Famous Playboy Photo
The famous Lenna image, of Playboy model Lena Forsén, can’t be used in any more research papers published on IEEE, the organization...
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3.1KGamingIf You’re Nostalgic About LAN Parties, This Book Will Hit You Right In The Feels
Doom, Quake, Unreal Tournament, Halo, all-nighters and junk food – you can almost feel the energy in these pictures! A new book...
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5.0KMiscFor Macintosh’s 40th Birthday, Here Are Some of the Best Movies Featuring This Legendary Computer
You might have heard that the Macintosh turns 40 today, as everyone has spent the past few weeks celebrating Apple’s legendary computer....
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4.9KMiscFor the 80 Years Anniversary, UK Releases Unseen Images of the Nazi Code-Breaking Computer
How did the Allies crack the Nazi codes during World War II? The story of the first nazi code-breaking computers has been...
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975FutureThe Absurd Reason Why UK’s Ministry of Justice Wants to Destroy 100 Million Wills
Since COVID, the movement to digitize archives has accelerated across the world but in the UK the speed might kill some incredible...
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882FutureStudent Used AI to Decipher One of the Ancient Scrolls Charred By Mount Vesuvius Eruption
Thousands of years ago, a Mount Vesuvius eruption covered more than 1,800 scrolls in ash, destroying the precious information on them. Or...
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8.4KMiscHow A London Furniture Conservator Managed to Solve the 20,000-year Cave Drawings Mystery
What are those dots for? Ben Bacon, a furniture conservator from London, made an unlikely but crucial discovery that will help researchers...
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1.2KSmart LifeWhat Did the First TV Look Like? Each Decade for TV, In Pictures That Will Make You Dream of Better Times
In part one of this series about the evolution of TV, we answered the question of “when did TVs come out” and...
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1.6KSmart LifeWhen did TVs come out? A Quick History of This World Changing Invention
H&M is selling Flintstones T-shirts like there’s no tomorrow but do most people know this is truly an almost pre-historical TV series? ...
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1.4KStreamlandGodzilla Minus One Is Bringing the Series Back to the 1940s to Heap On Destruction
Godzilla fans have long loved the theory that Godzilla is an allegory for nuclear war and a cultural reaction to the bombings...
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6.4KMiscThis Ancient Stone Carving Is Just 1.5 Inches Wide, Shocks Scientists With The Amount of Detail
The Pylos Combat Agate, one Minoan stone carving discovered a few years ago still amazes thanks to its level of detail, almost...
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1.7KStreamlandNot Seen In Oppenheimer: How the Man Who Actually Assembled the Bomb Died Soon After While Handling Another One
Something Christoper Nolan didn’t show in Oppenheimer? Louis Slotin was the person who actually assembled the nuclear bomb used in the Trinity...
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1.4KStreamlandThe BBC Threads Movie Isn’t About the Twitter Clone: It’s the Most Haunting Nuclear War Movie Ever Made
Threads is Meta’s newest Twitter clone, a social media platform that reached 100 million users in under a week. It’s also a...
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907Smart LifeLithium-Ion Battery Pioneer Dies At Age 100: How John B. Goodenough Changed the World
“I’m just one more simple human being trying to do his job”, said John B. Goodenough a few years back in a...
