Aug 17 2011
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"If you are one of the hundred best players in the world, these hands will not puzzle you." So reads the instruction…
Aug 8 2011
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Computer-generated animations have come a long way in a relatively short time span. Starting as a series of…
Jul 17 2011
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Ah, sweet, sweet naivety. In this reto-tastic NASA video about space colonization, the narrator waxes…
Jun 27 2011
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Before OK Cupid, before Match.com and before eHarmony, there was TACT. TACT was a matchmaking computer based on a…
Jun 26 2011
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In Focus picks up its multi-part World War 2 photo series with the Invasion of Poland and the Winter War. Tucked in…
Jun 14 2011
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The Nintendo Virtual Boy was over before it ever really got a chance to show what it couldn't do. But that doesn't…
Jun 11 2011
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It's so easy to take for granted how present-day technology has found an accepted place in our lives. That place…
Apr 30 2011
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More dispatches from At&T's eerily prescient vision of the future, all the way from the 90s. Here, the simple…
Apr 9 2011
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Most of the time the computer interfaces we see in Hollywood flicks are all sorts of ridiculous. They mix glam with…
Apr 3 2011
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Why hasn't this kind of critical thinking migrated out of India to the rest of the world? Methinks these educators…
Mar 19 2011
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Back in the day, when NASA pilots posed with Corvettes and we were just getting to the Moon for the first time, our…
Feb 19 2011
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Slate's been reminiscing about the venerable Choose Your Own Adventure book series and it's quite the read!…
Feb 12 2011
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This 1942 ad for a comptometer is just perfect because first of all, I had no idea what a comptometer was (a…
Feb 8 2011
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According to automotive experts, the last car to be factory-equipped with a cassette deck was a 2010 Lexus. As that…
Jan 31 2011
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Why, Ms. Allison, why? If you want single people living alone to cook at home, at least promote gas, not a bloody…
Jan 29 2011
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1994! Doesn't seem that long ago, right? But for Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric, it's been a very long time. This…
Jan 15 2011
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Wikipedia turned 10 years old today and to celebrate the wonderful crowdsourced, potluck of information, here's a…
Jan 8 2011
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This is an awesome picture taken in the early 1900s in America. All the boys are wearing foil for some odd reason.…
Dec 29 2010
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Technological advances are wonderful! But that doesn't mean we have to abandon up on retrofabulous design. And…
Dec 26 2010
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Want to fly a Saturn V rocket? Easy! Just pick up one of these bad boys and get learnin'. Having an actual Saturn V…