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Unlooted Royal Tomb Found in Peru
Polish archaeologist Milosz Giersz was terrified that looters would make their way to the site, so he and his colleagues excavated the site in complete secrecy for months.
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Parking garage in New York in 1930's
Not bad for it's time, but I wonder how safe and efficient this was.
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Nuclear fallout drops the bomb on ivory poachers
The atomic bomb blasts of the Cold War may help put poachers of elephant tusks and rhinoceros horns in jail.
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Computer mouse inventor Douglas Engelbart dies
Douglas Engelbart, whose invention of the mouse transformed the way people interact with computers, has died. Engelbart died Tuesday night at his home in Atherton, California, SRI International -- the research institute where he once worked -- said in a statement. He was 88.
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The 5 Coolest Things We've Ever Sent Into Orbit
Gravity is the inescapable jerk boss constantly reminding you of your weight, ruining your toast, and punching you in the face every time you fall over. Orbit is how you change it from a slave driver to a dance partner. Rocket science is reality judo, using the universe's own fundamental forces to escape their otherwise all-powerful grip.
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Gettysburg relives deadly drama on 150th anniversary
As she waited Wednesday afternoon to watch a giant re-enactment of perhaps the key moment of the Civil War, Jan Callanan squinted across the vast expanse of pasture that ends in a stand of hardwood trees.
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What Makes a Work of Art Seem Dated?
Amidst a recent spate of travelling in Australia, I watched two films from that country, both released in the nineteen-seventies: Nicolas Roeg’s “Walkabout,” from 1971, and George Miller’s “Mad Max,” from 1979. I was struck by how much Roeg’s film felt of its time, and how little did Miller’s. It is true that eight years separate the two, bookending a decade—and one might argue that 1971 was, in essence, still the nineteen-sixties.
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Voynich Manuscript Has Real Message After All, Say Scientists
Dr Marcelo Montemurro from the University of Manchester and Dr Damian Zanette from the Centro Atómico Bariloche e Instituto Balseiro, Argentina, claim to have found linguistic patterns in the world’s most mysterious book, the Voynich manuscript.
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LA in 1946
Reminds me of that game LA Noire.
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5 Shockingly Crazy Ideas Behind Huge Scientific Discoveries
Some of the most important innovators in history were just as interested in voodoo as they were in science, and often stumbled across their greatest works by accident.
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Why America would have been better off without its revolution
"The easiest way of assessing whether the United States would have been better off without its revolution," says self-described "former historian" Paul Pirie in The Washington Post, "is to look at those English-speaking countries that rejected the American Revolution and retained the monarchy."
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This wasp is 90 million years old
Trapped in time.
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How did America’s police become a military force on the streets?
Are cops constitutional? In a 2001 article for the Seton Hall Constitutional Law Journal, the legal scholar and civil liberties activist Roger Roots posed just that question. Roots, a fairly radical libertarian, believes that the U.S. Constitution doesn’t allow for police as they exist today.
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5 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About Ancient Civilizations
Since not all of us decided to tell our parents we'd be moving back home in four years by majoring in classics, much of what we know about ancient Greece and Rome tends to come from films and TV -- meaning that much of what we "know" originated with some Hollywood producer saying, "Yes, but can we make the togas sexier?"
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1950's drive in cinema
Old school cool.
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11-X, WEP, Midway, CyberPlayGround, FACE – the rejected names for Microsoft's first console
Microsoft’s ‘naming guys’ wanted to call the company’s first games console 11-X or Eleven-X, but were overruled by Seamus Blackley and his launch team. Blackley was part of the team that built and launched the first Xbox, and in an excerpt from an archive Edge interview published online for the first time, he revealed to us the long list of suggested acronym-based names for what eventually became the Xbox.
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A Brief History of Sliced Bread
Every new and clever innovation seems to win the praise of being “the greatest thing since sliced bread.” Have you ever wondered, how long has it actually been since sliced bread was first sliced? The answer: sliced bread is turning 85 this year!
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The Hut Where the Internet Began
When Douglas Engelbart read a Vannevar Bush essay on a Philippine island in the aftermath of World War II, he found the conceptual space to imagine what would become our Internet.
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The Evolution Of The Modern Toilet
The porcelain goddess, the loo, the crapper, the throne, or the john. We all use the toilet. In fact, the average person will end up spending 3 years of their life in the restroom.
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From Poznan Spring to Tahrir Square: 19 of the Most Memorable Protest Photos
Very often, images emerge that come to embody the entirety of the events they capture in our collective memory. As the unseating of the Morsi government unfolds in Cairo, the images of gesturing hands, signs raised, flags waved, and fires lit will become enduring symbols to the uninvolved public of the moments those pictures represent. Here are some of the most memorable images from protest movements since the end of World War II.
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