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New Exhibit Celebrates the Lost Art of the Screensaver

(via Motherboard) Long before “let’s play” videos had us watching someone else play a video game, we watched a Windows

(via TED Ed) What makes a book a book? Is it just anything that stores and communicates information? Or does

(via Atlas Obscura) The “Bomb Alarm System,” designed and implemented by Western Union, wasn’t a secret, but it was unobtrusive

(via Amusing Planet) Smoke signals and beacons have been used to relay messages over short distances since ancient times, but

(via Neatorama) On the evening of October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite, into

(via Popular Mechanics) Technology has always pushed up against preconceived ideas about how we live. Since the law is ostensibly

(via TED Ed) When a team of archeologists recently came across some 15,000-year-old human remains, they made an interesting discovery:

(via Popular Mechanics) In January 1945, just months before Germany’s unconditional surrender in World War Two, George S. Patton declared

(via TED Ed) Teflon was in the spacesuits the Apollo crew wore for the moon landing, in pipes and valves

(via Nat and Lo) The internet is powered by over 300 heavy duty underwater cables that carry 99% of all

(via TED-Ed) It is estimated that Johnson & Johnson have made an astounding 100 billion Band-Aids since they were invented