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[Link] The Surprisingly Scientific Roots of Monkey Bars
Read: 4/3/2023 www.smithsonianmag.com
A kindergartner frolics on a jungle gym during a festival in Louisville, Kentucky, in September 2017.
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[Link] The Antonov An-225 Seems To Have Been Destroyed After All
Read: 3/3/2022 hackaday.com
Something that probably unites most Hackaday readers is a love of machines, particularly unique or interesting ones.
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[Link] Clash with separatist rebels sees death of three Indonesian soldiers in Papua
Read: 28/1/2022 www.abc.net.au
Separatist rebels have killed three Indonesian soldiers and critically injured another during an attack on a military post in Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua.
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[Link] Note from Aldo Moro kidnappers sells for €26,000 at controversial auction
Read: 27/1/2022 www.theguardian.com
Rome’s Bertolami auction house sold the historical document for €26,000 ($28,960) on Thursday, far surpassing its original estimate of €1,300-1,700.
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[Link] Archeologists Discover Two Huge Sphinxes in Egyptian Ruins
Read: 23/1/2022 www.vice.com
Amenhotep III’s temple is packed with artifacts and was once a resplendent feature of Luxor. However, it has been eroded by thousands of years of floods and at least one ancient earthquake.
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[Link] ‘It’s awful to be a medical exception’: the woman who cannot forget
Read: 19/1/2022 www.theguardian.com
Every morning since January 2004, Rebecca Sharrock crosses off the date on a calendar in her room. Like many people, the 31-year-old uses it to keep track of time, distinguishing the present day from the ones that came before.
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[Link] I Can't Stop Playing This Wikipedia History Game
Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com
WikiTrivia is a deceptively simple game that has consumed my entire morning. Wordle is fun, but it’s over quickly. WikiTrivia you can play over and over again. Players sort random events in history along a timeline.
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[Link] The Mystery of Florida's Cannonball-Eating Spanish Fort
Read: 8/12/2021 getpocket.com
The secret is inside the walls themselves.
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[Link] U.S. Boycotted Olympics Before, and It Didn’t End Well
Read: 8/12/2021 www.vice.com
The U.S. is staging a diplomatic boycott of the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics to protest China’s human rights abuses of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang. The full effect remains to be seen.
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[Link] The Rise and Fall of the Comedian Who Revolutionized Stand-Up
Read: 6/12/2021 slate.com
Mort Sahl, who died on Tuesday at 94, may be unknown to most people who are younger than half that age, but in his prime in the 1950s, he sparked a revolution in stand-up comedy that persists to this day.
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[Link] Widow of former South Korean dictator Chun Doo-hwan offers ‘deep apology’ for brutal rule
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The widow of South Korea’s last military dictator has issued a brief apology over the “pains and scars” caused by her husband’s brutal rule as dozens of relatives and former aides gathered at a Seoul hospital to pay their final respects to Chun Doo-hwan.
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[Link] The Pirate Bay Story Will Be Turned Into a TV Series
Read: 21/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
The Pirate Bay's turbulent history will be turned into a six-part TV drama. The Swedish production is scheduled to start filming next year and will be aired by public broadcaster SVT. The makers will base their story on input from various insiders but the site's founders are not part of the crew.
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[Link] Tech In Plain Sight: Eyeglasses
Read: 16/11/2021 hackaday.com
Glasses wearers, try a little experiment. Take off your glasses and look at this page or, at least, at something you can’t see well without your glasses. Now imagine if you lived in a time where there was nothing to be done about your vision.
[Link] Scholars Cringe at the Term ‘Dark Ages.’ Dan Jones Explains Why.
Read: 15/11/2021 www.nytimes.com
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. Those who write about medieval history often develop a keen awareness that the narrative is best told when it is made relatable to the modern reader.
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[Link] Can Reaganism Rise Again?
Read: 15/11/2021 www.nytimes.com
For a long time, longer than I’ve held this job, my advice to Republican politicians and policymakers has been consistent: It isn’t the 1970s or 1980s anymore.
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[Link] The CIA’s Afghan Proxies, Accused of War Crimes, Will Get a Fresh Start in the U.S.
Read: 7/11/2021 theintercept.com
Before the Taliban took control of Kabul in August, the U.S.-backed Afghan commandos known as Zero units were the ghosts of the Afghan battlefield. Along with their CIA advisers, they were feared and, in recent years, virtually invisible.
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[Link] A Treasure Trove of Furry History Is Available on the Internet Archive
Read: 4/11/2021 www.vice.com
The Internet Archive is full of gifts: malware museums, secret public domain books, random VHS tape collections, basically any esoteric interest you can think of, there's probably an archive collection of it, built by volunteers who are just really into that thing.
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[Link] Ancient Gold Burial Mask Found to Be Painted With Human Blood
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
In the 1990s, archaeologists uncovered an ancient and mysterious burial ritual in Peru: in the center of the chamber was a man, seated with his upside-down skeleton painted red along with the gold mask that adorned his detached skull.
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[Link] Game Publisher Unveils Gloriously Ugly iPod Prototype It Had In Its Closet
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
Video game publisher Panic has unveiled photos of the original iPod prototype it said was laying around in a closet. First released on October 23, 2001, the iPod catapulted Apple from an iconic but struggling computer company to a global behemoth.
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[Link] Cyberpunk 2077 is no GTA, but GTA 2 was a cyberpunk game
Read: 25/10/2021 www.pcgamer.com
Society is in rapid decay. With the crime rate soaring and biochemical dependency in healthy proliferation, you are about to have the time of your life. The city is on the edge of collapse, with law and order beginning to break down completely.
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[Link] The World's First Ransomware Came on a Floppy Disk in 1989
Read: 23/10/2021 www.vice.com
In December 1989, Willems worked at a Belgian insurance firm, and put the disk into a work computer. Bizarrely, it presented a questionnaire, the answers of which told the user whether or not they were in danger of contracting HIV/AIDS. Willems completed the quiz, and didn't think much more of it.
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[Link] Former Nazi camp secretary formally charged with more than 11,000 counts of accessory to murder
Read: 20/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Prosecutors accuse her of being part of the apparatus that helped the Nazis’ Stutthof camp function during World War II more than 75 years ago.
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[Link] China Is a Declining Power—and That’s the Problem
Read: 26/9/2021 foreignpolicy.com
Why do great powers fight great wars? The conventional answer is a story of rising challengers and declining hegemons. An ascendant power, which chafes at the rules of the existing order, gains ground on an established power—the country that made those rules.
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[Link] Google Locks Historian’s Account Over Terrorism Research Videos
Read: 23/9/2021 www.vice.com
Ed Francis studies the evolution of military technology over at his YouTube channel, Armoured Archives. But this week, Francis says five years’ worth of research stored on Google Drive has become inaccessible thanks to Google’s automated error.
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[Link] Sirhan Sirhan, man who assassinated Robert F Kennedy, granted parole
Read: 28/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
The man who killed Robert F Kennedy was granted parole on Friday after two of the former attorney general, senator and presidential hopeful’s sons spoke in favor of release and prosecutors declined to argue he should be kept behind bars.
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[Link] Monsters, Inc: The Taliban as Empire’s bogeyman
Read: 22/8/2021 www.aljazeera.com
The dominant narrative on the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan erases the decades of imperial violence Afghans suffered.
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[Link] WB Yeats, the Spanish flu and an experiment in quarantine
Read: 22/8/2021 www.irishtimes.com
WB Yeats’s December 14th, 1918 letter to New York lawyer John Quinn alludes to the dramatic impact of the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 on the Yeats family.
[Link] Republic of Guria
Read: 18/8/2021 en.wikipedia.org
The Republic of Guria or the Gurian Peasant Republic was an insurrection that took place in the western Georgian province Guria (then part of the Imperial Russia) prior to and during the Russian Revolution of 1905.
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[Link] Retrotechtacular: Amiga Pips The PC For Mission-Critical Computing At NASA
Read: 17/8/2021 hackaday.com
In 1986, a group of NASA engineers faced a difficult choice in solving their data processing woes: continue tolerating the poor performance of PC architecture, or pony up the cash for exotic workstations.
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[Link] The cheeky, stolen Olympic flag that became an heirloom for McKeon swimming family
Read: 8/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
This story starts with a classic tale of adolescent mischief and has evolved into a priceless piece of sporting memorabilia. Former Olympian David McKeon's great uncle Peter was in Rome for the 1960 Olympics with some school mates and spotted an enormous Olympic rings flag he wanted to souvenir.
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[Link] Mathematicians Discover the Perfect Way to Multiply
Read: 8/8/2021 getpocket.com
By chopping up large numbers into smaller ones, researchers have rewritten a fundamental mathematical speed limit.
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[Link] Johnson makes ‘unbelievably crass’ joke about Thatcher closing coal mines
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
On a visit to Scotland on Thursday, the prime minister made a number of provocative comments, stating that a second referendum on Scottish independence is “about as far from the top of my agenda as it is possible to be”.
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[Link] 50 Years Ago Today, Daniel Ellsberg’s Pentagon Papers Helped End the Vietnam War
Read: 14/6/2021 jacobinmag.com
The first installment of reporting based on the Pentagon Papers was published half a century ago today in the New York Times. Pentagon whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg risked life imprisonment to expose the lies and brutality that the US war on Vietnam was based on.
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[Link] The Assault Case That Shook Ancient Rome
Read: 12/4/2021 getpocket.com
Inside the trial of Gnaeus Plancius, more than 2,000 years before the #MeToo movement.
[Link] Juan Pujol García
Read: 7/4/2021 en.wikipedia.org
Juan Pujol García MBE (14 February 1912 – 10 October 1988), also known as Joan Pujol Garcia, was a Spaniard who acted as a double agent with loyalty to Great Britain against Nazi Germany during World War II, when he relocated to Britain to carry out fictitious spying activities for the Germans.