Oct 11
Our weekly round-up of time capsule news includes a McDonald’s capsule from 1970 that hasn’t aged well, a Vietnam War-era capsule in Virginia Beach that "smells like rotten eggs," and more church time capsules than you can shake a hymnal at.
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Oct 04
This week we have a brand new time capsule in the U.K. with the Star Wars movies, a 1960 capsule in Michigan that was thought to be lost for good, and a town in Oregon that included a website print-out in their latest low-tech time travel box.
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Sep 27
This week in our time capsule round-up we have a 9/11 memorial time capsule in Pennsylvania, the not-at-all symbolic burial of a BlackBerry tablet in California, and letters from Canadian kids addressed to people of the future—including one that wonders what version of iPhone they’ll have a hundred years hence.
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Sep 20
This week we have a 1913 capsule in California that for some reason contained hair clippings and a tooth; an Andy Warhol capsule that will be opened in Pittsburgh tomorrow; and a TV crew that finally found the long-lost Steve Jobs time capsule in Colorado!
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Sep 13
This week we have a message in a bottle which could be the oldest ever found, 1970s microfilm that was hidden inside a missile in Kansas, and the single coolest (and furthest traveled) time capsule ever assembled.
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Sep 06
This week we have a school in England that filled its new capsule with the latest in tech, a casket from the Reagan administration that for some reason includes biscuits and gravy, and a public ceremony in Florida which will show off a capsule for the retired space shuttle Atlantis. And a town that hates fun. Like, really hates fun.
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Aug 30
Sadly, this week’s round-up of the latest time capsule news is rather somber. We have people in Newtown looking for a time capsule at the site of last year’s brutal massacre, some prohibition-era workmen longing for the day when they can drink legally, and a 1965 church time capsule unsealed with a photo of nine men, only one of whom is still alive to see it.
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Aug 19
Time capsules are meant to give future generations a glimpse of what life was like many years ago. But not surprisingly, humans tend to fill time capsules with only the good artifacts of a civilization, making the story seem rosier than it really was. So when archaeologists and researchers want to find out the real story of a given era, they turn to garbage instead.
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Aug 16
Today in our time capsule news round-up we have a mystery time capsule from 1927, some ideas for building your own back-to-school capsule, and former classmates in Connecticut who went looking for a time capsule but wound up finding each other. They didn’t find the capsule though. It’s nice they found each other, but I was really hoping they’d find the capsule. They didn’t though. No capsule. Just each other.
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Aug 09
This week’s round-up of the hottest in time capsule news includes discreetly hidden invitations for any real-life time travelers, memories from the 2011 earthquake in Christchurch, and a slice of cake found in a time capsule from 1948.
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