“Year 1999 AD” – A 1967 Film Imagines the Future
(via Atlas Obscura) This short film, produced in 1967 by the Philco-Ford Corporation, a maker of battery-powered tech, imagines the
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Bill Pickett, A Cowboy Who Broke Broncos and Barriers
(via history.com) The son of black and Indian parents, Pickett learned his roping and riding skills working as a cowboy
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The Robot Presidents Who Rule Disney World
(via Popular Mechanics) As the red curtain rises, subtle blue light bathes 43 presidents. After a few words from America’s
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How Do Bugs Survive The Winter?
(via SciShow) Birds fly south, humans bundle up, but what do insects do to survive the winter? From creating antifreeze-like
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The Mirror Effect
(via Lapham’s Quarterly) Polished metal and obsidian mirrors have existed from ancient times, and because of this, historians have usually
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Why Some Songs Get Stuck In Your Head More Than Others
(via Motherboard) The scientific name for the phenomenon of getting a song stuck in our head is involuntary musical imagery,
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Meet the Fish That Made America Great
(via Atlas Obscura) Of all the species that were once absurdly abundant in American landscape—the bison, the passenger pigeon—the American
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Abandoned Buildings Make The Best Canvases For Beautiful Murals
(via digg) Abandoned spaces can get pretty creepy, perhaps especially when late October rolls around. Bat-infest hotels, weird theme parks and
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Ridiculous History: How an Irish Beer Became the Authority on World Records
(via How Stuff Works) From the world’s longest paper airplane flight to the world’s largest beer tasting, Guinness World Records
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Is Daylight Saving Time to Blame for Seasonal Depression?
(via mental_floss) Daylight Savings Time is set to end Sunday, November 6 at 2:00am. The precise root cause of seasonal
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Why the Human Lifespan Ends at 122
(via Gizmodo) The oldest human to have ever lived died at the age of 122—and that was nearly 20 years
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How Many Fish Are in the Sea?
(via The Atlantic) Counting fish is a daunting but essential task in protecting aquatic ecosystems—and now artificial intelligence, autonomous submarines,
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