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How to Nominate Movies to the Library of Congress National Film Registry

The deadline for submissions from the public is September 15.

Matt Novak

8/27/21 6:00AM

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8 Foods That Tasted Better in the 1980s

It's not just your imagination, these foods tasted better decades ago.

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How One Wealthy Brit in 1930 Imagined the Home of 2030

The Earl of Birkenhead was a close personal friend of Winston Churchill and also racist.

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Scans of Medieval Skeletons Show Cancer Has Been Common Longer Than We Thought

Cancer may have been a bigger menace in medieval times than previously assumed, new research this week suggests. The…

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Researchers Get a Deeper Look at Some of the Oldest Color Photos Ever

Scientists have re-examined the creations of one of the earliest color photographers, Gabriel Lippmann, who used no…

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This Vintage Bread Slicer Wouldn't Meet Today's Safety Standards But It's Fun to Watch Being Restored

Bread slicers weren’t exactly the safest things around in the middle of the 20th century. That open blade is just…

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Charles Steinmetz's Predictions About 2021 From the Year 1921 Were Amazingly Accurate

Back in 1921, Dr. Charles P. Steinmetz, the pioneering inventor and mathematician, was published in a Massachusetts…

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X-Rays Help Scientists Read ‘Letterlocked’ Renaissance Mail

In July 1697, Jacques Sennacques of Lille, France, scribbled off a missive to his merchant cousin, Pierre le Pers,…

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We've Been Promised These Futuristic Space Hotels for 60 Years

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What a Fossilized Hand Says About the Last Common Ancestor Between Humans and Chimpanzees

More than 1 million years before the early hominin known as Lucy was striding across the Afar region of Ethiopia,…

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This Anti-Burglar Device From 1923 Was Inspired by Horrific Gas Warfare of World War I

Imagine you’re a bank teller with a gun pointed at your head. What do you do? If you’re smart, you’ll just give the…

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This 'Telewriter' Transmitted Handwriting Across Long Distances in the 1930s

Need to send a message to a friend 50 miles away? Today, you’ve got plenty of options—whether it’s SMS, email,…

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How to Nominate Movies to the Library of Congress National Film Registry

8 Foods That Tasted Better in the 1980s

How One Wealthy Brit in 1930 Imagined the Home of 2030

Scans of Medieval Skeletons Show Cancer Has Been Common Longer Than We Thought

Researchers Get a Deeper Look at Some of the Oldest Color Photos Ever

This Vintage Bread Slicer Wouldn't Meet Today's Safety Standards But It's Fun to Watch Being Restored

Charles Steinmetz's Predictions About 2021 From the Year 1921 Were Amazingly Accurate

X-Rays Help Scientists Read ‘Letterlocked’ Renaissance Mail

We've Been Promised These Futuristic Space Hotels for 60 Years

What a Fossilized Hand Says About the Last Common Ancestor Between Humans and Chimpanzees

This Anti-Burglar Device From 1923 Was Inspired by Horrific Gas Warfare of World War I

This 'Telewriter' Transmitted Handwriting Across Long Distances in the 1930s