Dec 20
This week’s top time capsule stories from around the world include an abundance of riches in Florida, a surprise capsule found by some rather patient people Down Under, and the old question of tech obsolescence at a school in California.
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Dec 13
Our weekly round-up of time capsule news includes a group of kids in Ohio who sealed an Xbox into a capsule, the tragic story of a recently unearthed time capsule from 2003 that didn’t fare too well, and a new Tesla monument in Silicon Valley that includes some predictions for the world of 2043.
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Dec 06
This week’s time capsule news round-up includes a new capsule in Dubai for the 2020 World’s Fair, a capsule from the 1990s that will probably make you feel old, and a recent discovery in Wyoming that proves you should always check behind the cornerstone.
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Nov 25
If you opened a 101-year-old time capsule and found a mysterious package addressed to the descendants of an unknown man, would you open it? That’s the question a church in Michigan now faces after they recently cracked open a time capsule from 1912, and found something they couldn’t quite explain.
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Nov 22
This week in our time capsule round-up we have a new time capsule vault in Massachusetts, an "evidence packet" submitted into capsule evidence in Iowa, and some Great Recession artifacts in Florida sure to bum out the good people of tomorrow.
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Nov 15
This week in our time capsule round-up, something the kids call "One Direction" (I’m guessing it’s a designer drug) finds its way into a new time capsule; a beer keg from 1988 is cracked open at the University of North Carolina; and some "Capsule Keepers" responsible for guarding a 400-year capsule look for a new batch of helpers.
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Nov 08
About 350 people gathered near the steps of L.A.’s Natural History Museum on Wednesday night to hear historians, museum officials, and politicians talk about the 100th birthday of the institution. But your humble retrofuture bloggist was there for one reason, and one reason only: to see the museum’s new time capsule.
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Nov 01
This week in our time capsule news round-up we have an iPhone in Florida ready to make a 110-year journey, a water-themed time capsule in L.A. that hopefully won’t be a huge disappointment, and a peculiar hodgepodge of stuff in San Antonio from 1986 — including a Chili’s menu and a weightlifting trophy.
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Oct 25
This week in our time capsule news round-up we have questions about the World Series of 2213, the retro-futuristic death of a monorail in Australia, and a bunch of 1988 music that’s scheduled to be unearthed 75 years from today.
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Oct 18
This week in our time capsule news round-up Harvard buries a first-gen iPhone, an animal park in the UK hopes to raise awareness about elephants, and the Sunshine State seals dozens of capsules in celebration of Florida’s "discovery" 500 years ago.
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