How Does Big Ben Keep Accurate Time?
(via The Science Channel) When it was built, Big Ben was the largest clock in the world. Over 150 years
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Fordlandia – the failure of Henry Ford’s utopian city in the Amazon
(via The Guardian) In the 1920s the US industrialist Henry Ford wanted to found a city based on the values
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Everything You’d Ever Want to Know About Tank Armor
(via Popular Mechanics) Traditionally, tanks have three main attributes: speed, protection, and firepower. To survive on a battlefield teaming with
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7 Sites That Used to Rule the Web
(via Popular Mechanics) Back in the day when the Nokia 3310 was cutting edge and VHS was still king, the
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Why ‘Star Trek’ Matters
(via Popular Mechanics) If wisdom comes with age, then Star Trek—the series that’s taught us diplomacy, morality, and workplace ethics
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8-Year-Old Golf Prodigy Nails A Drone Right Out Of The Sky
(via digg) This is Ruby Kavanagh, Australia’s number-one golfer for her age group. She hits a mean golf ball. And
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Drones eliminate traditional field cameras for university’s coaches
(via Digital Trends) The quarterback has a left tackle to protect his blind side — and now the coaches at
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Life and Limb
(via Neatorama) Throughout most of history, if you lost a limb, the replacement of choice was a wooden peg (which
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8 Odd Beauty Standards in Turn-of-the-Century Photographs
(via mental_floss) People int he late 1800s and early 1900s who went to the trouble of having their portraits taken
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31 Images of the Golden Gate Bridge That Never Was
(via Popular Mechanics) The idea of turning the Golden Gate Bridge into a double-decker has been around almost since the
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7 Photographic Tricks, Hoaxes, and Fads Before Photoshop
(via mental_floss) You know the old cliché: The camera doesn’t lie. But that wasn’t true even before computers made it
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How Photo Retouching Worked Before Photoshop
(via mental_floss) Retouching has been around almost as long as photography itself, but instead of taking place on a computer,
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