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Kids Of The 1980s Imagined The Year 2020 With Robot Butlers, Bubble-Top Cities And Nuclear War

Here's Why Telephones And Calculators Use Different Numeric Keypads

Inside An Early 1900s Attempt To Catalogue All Of The Information On Earth

Larry Roberts, Grandfather Of The Internet, Dies At 81

Memory And The Lost Cause

A Nostalgic Look Back At Digital Music Piracy In The 2000s

In South Africa, 'Decolonizing' Mathematics

A Single Cell Hints At A Solution To The Biggest Problem In Computer Science

This Might Be The Most Brilliant Safe Ad We've Ever Seen Before

Knife Master Explains How To Properly Sharpen A Knife

Douchebag Driver Gets His Just Deserts Almost Immediately

The Predator Massacres Santa's Workshop In This Bloody Fun Short

Concerned Dog Doesn't Want His Hurt Owner To Get Into Ambulance

Little Girl's Reaction To Finding Out She Is Going To Be A Big Sister Is Impossibly Sweet

Why Are So Many People Getting A Meat Allergy?

The New Bill Wurtz Video About Doing A Bad Thing Is Really A Very Good Thing

What Bruce Springsteen Taught Me About Being A Good Man

Why Is AI-Generated Music Still So Bad?

The Hard Truths of Trying to ‘Save’ the Rural Economy

Travis Scott: In Orbit With Rap's Newest Superstar

Did A Slave Make Your Sneakers? The Answer Is: Probably

'Artifact' Isn't A Game On Steam, It's Steam In A Game

The Difference Between The Mercator Projection And Real Geographic Sizes, Visualized

How I Went From Graduate School Student To Amazon Warehouse Janitor

America Runs on Car Loan Debt

The Dollar Store Backlash Has Begun

Cars Do Not Belong In Cities, And Other Facts

Tech Is Killing Street Food

To Create A Truly Great City, We Have To Ban The Car

Renters' Income Compared To Their Holiday Spending In Major American Cities, Visualized

tumultuous: Palabra del día: January 2, 2019

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tumultuous: Palabra del día: January 2, 2019

New Year's resolution: Palabra del día: January 1, 2019

Chinese Electricians Work On Thin Power Lines Hundreds Of Feet In The Air

Finnish Dude Jumps Off A 35-Foot Cliff Into A Tiny Ice Hole

In a Year Full of Heinous Men, Here’s Why Jeffrey Epstein Still Managed to Be Shocking

Relax, Ladies. Don't Be So Uptight. You Know You Want It

The Year Of The Old Boys

Tumblr Users Spent Years Reporting Child Porn. They Say the Site Ignored Them.

The Sound Of Silence

The Terrible Joy Of Yelling At Alexa

Good Riddance To Terrible Trolls

A Millionaire Paid Jews To Move To A Small Town In Alabama. Now, A Couple Struggle With Their Choice

This Supercut Of A Little Girl Hugging Her Big Sister After School Is The Most Wholesome Video We've Seen In A While

A New Disease Is Testing Us For The Next Global Epidemic

Turkey's Magical Hangover Cure

Australian raven

The Philosopher Redefining Equality

Chinese Schools Keep Tabs On Kids With 'Intelligent Uniforms'

Australian raven

Four Million Parts, 30 Countries: How An Airbus A380 Comes Together

2018 Was The Year That Netflix Ruled Food TV

The Pleasures Of Ina Garten

Taste-Testing Celebrities' Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipes To Determine Which Is The Best

Guy Builds A Huge Trebuchet To Pitch Baseballs, Hoping He Can Hit A Home Run