How Sears and Montgomery Ward Changed American Shipping
(via Atlas Obscura) Decades ago, long before Amazon Prime, when the American shipping industry was still in its infancy, it
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The Future of Advertising Starts With Your Face
(via OZY) Our digital data trails tell a lot about us. What sites we go to, what links we click…But
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The Plan to Save the Most Important Piece of the Space Race
(via Popular Mechanics) Columbia, the Apollo 11 command module, will get its first significant conservation effort in 40 years—just in
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The Volunteer Sky Watchers of the Cold War
(via Neatorama) Here’s a piece of Atomic Age history you’ve probably never heard of: the civilian Ground Observer Corps, thousands
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McDonald’s Engineers a New Type of Straw for Slurping Shamrock Shakes
(via mental_floss) The Shamrock Shake has been a seasonal McDonald’s specialty for decades, but even the classics can benefit from
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Want to know where every satellite and piece of space junk is?
Stuff in Space is an interactive visualization of all the objects orbiting the earth. Nearly everything that has ever been
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Barns Are Painted Red Because of the Physics of Dying Stars
(via Smithsonian) Have you ever noticed that almost every barn you have ever seen is red? The simple answer to
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The Last Concorde Finds Its Final Resting Place
(via Popular Mechanics) A piece of aviation history is finally getting a resting spot it deserves. The last remaining Concorde
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Point Nemo: The Spacecraft Cemetery
(via Amusing Planet) Far off the east coast of New Zealand, about 3,300 kilometers out in the Pacific Ocean, lies
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The Poisonous Past of Fake Blood
(via Great Big Story) In movies like “The Shining” and “Carrie,” blood came by the buckets. But perfecting that red
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How small are we in the scale of the universe?
(via TED-ED) In 1995, scientists pointed the Hubble Telescope at an area of the sky near the Big Dipper. The
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The Serendipitous History of Superglue
(via TED Ed) Some of the innovations that emerged out of World War II are well-documented, ranging from the microwave
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