Feb 13
In our quest to rid the world of fun and joy, we’ve done a number of posts fact-checking
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Feb 12
This past September one of the most sought after "lost" time capsules of the 20th century was finally found. After years of various people searching for the thing, the so-called Steve Jobs capsule was finally unearthed
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Feb 11
In the 1950s Americans were obsessed with push-button convenience. The future promised push-button meals, push-button cleaning, and even push-button schools. But this 1955 ad for ball bearings imagined something even weirder for the world of tomorrow: the push-button lumberjack. And amazingly, it was a vision that was delivered on.
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Feb 10
Sick of shoveling the snow off your sidewalk? Well, the good folks of 1925 have a brilliant idea for you: just set it all on fire.
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Feb 05
Back in 1985 Tipper Gore testified in front of a Senate committee warning that children were being exposed to all kinds of naughty stuff in modern music. Sex, heresy and violence were destroying good old-fashioned American values. Won’t somebody think of the children!
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Feb 03
Hydrotherapy was all the rage in the 19th century. Inventors devised countless contraptions to immerse people in water, hoping to restore them to health using nature’s favorite liquid. But none were quite as awkward as the invention above: the "rocking bath tub" of 1891.
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Feb 03
Harry Grant Dart had quite an eye for the future. The early 20th century illustrator imagined women driving flying machines
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Jan 30
In the 1970s, personal rapid transit (PRT) was supposed to be America’s great transportation savior.
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Jan 29
In 1934 the president of Northwestern University, Walter Dill Scott, predicted that technology would radically change the college experience.
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Jan 29
Apple is notoriously protective of their intellectual property. Even going so far as suing Samsung in a high-profile fight over the iPhone and iPad designs. But what if Apple didn’t coin the name for one of their most celebrated products? Namely, the iPad.
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