All posts tagged "history"
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2.7KGamingThe Pacman Ghost Names: Cool Things You Didn’t Know About the Best Game of All Time
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe? Nope, but close enough! The names of the Pacman ghosts that give you a hard time at the...
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1.5KPhonesThe Blackberry Movie Gets Raving Reviews, Looks Like Must-watch Tech Satire
This isn’t a Fincher Social Network type of thing but it looks like a must watch nonetheless: check out the Blackberry movie...
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2.0KMiscHow Europe’s Last Electronics Giant Collapsed: The Death of Philips & The Incredible Legacy of the Company
One of the best free documentaries you can watch on Youtube is this one: The Death of Europe’s Last Electronics Giant, made...
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556FutureNew Museum Technology Reveals Hidden Doodles In 1,300-Year-Old Book
Doodles from a child or a nun trying to explain her life? Thanks to a new imaging technology at the Bodleian Library,...
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982FutureThe Best Books About Tech That Won’t Bore You to Tears (And What To Learn From Them)
If you work in tech, digital marketing or simply want to know more about this area that’s all around us and shaping...
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2.4KMiscA London Furniture Conservator Just 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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2.4KMiscAllegedly “Fake” Roman Coins, Now Authenticated, Spark New Debate About the Existence of A Lost Roman Emperor
A new analysis of what were commonly considered “fake” Roman coins spark a new debate about the lost Roman emperor depicted on...
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2.7KMiscThe 26 Lines of Code that Changed the World, A New Book You Should Definitely Add to Your List
“The code that launched a million cat videos”, the invention of COBOL, the ancient programming language banks still use to this day,...
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2.3KMiscCameras Abandoned By Renowned Explorers 85 Years Ago On Glacier Found With Film Still On Them
A message from the distant past? Three cameras abandoned 85 years ago by two explorers and pioneer photographers were discovered on a...
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1.3KSmart LifeThis Documentary Shows How Socialist Chile Almost Built the Internet At the Same Time As the US – Before the CIA Intervened
Did you know that there were multiple internets being built in parallel back in the 70s? A new three-part documentary shows how...
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2.9KSocialA Bored Chinese Housewife Was Caught Falsifying Russian History On Wikipedia, After Her Edits Tricked Readers For Years
Yet another scandal is rocking Wikipedia. This time, a bored Chinese housewife spent years on Chinese Wikipedia falsifying Russian history – and...
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5.1K1FutureScientists Prove the Existence of Lost Cities in the Amazon Using Lidar
El Dorado or the Lost City of Z? The legends now seem to be based on fact, thanks to new research undergone...
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1.2KSmart LifeWith A Whisper, Not A Bang, Apple Discontinues the iPod After 2 Decades
Did you think the iPod is obsolete? Now it’s actually official. While many thought the iPod was lost in the past, Apple...
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2.9KMiscThis 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 two years ago amazes thanks to its level of detail, almost impossible considering...
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1.8KMiscThe 3000 Year Old Amenhotep I Mummy Was Digitally “Unwrapped”, Here’s What’s Inside
History buff? Fascinated about ancient Egypt and what secrets the thousand-year old sarcophaguses might hold? Then these images are unskippable! The sarcophagus...
