History articles

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  Feature

  'Could you poison your child?': images from a century of medical propaganda

  By Amar Toor on April 12, 2013 02:39 pm + 47 comments

  The US National Library of Medicine is much more than a library about medicine. Founded in 1836, the Continue reading…

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  Article

  Meet Harry Beck, the genius behind London's iconic subway map

  By Amar Toor on March 29, 2013 10:00 am + 151 comments

  © Ken Garland, courtesy of London Transport Museum You won't find Harry Beck's face on any coins Continue reading…

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  Article

  Samsung's militaristic culture and the leaders behind it

  By Jacob Kastrenakes on March 28, 2013 10:36 am + 17 comments

  At some of Samsung's Korean facilities you can find K-pop playing from speakers disguised as rocks, Continue reading…

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  Article

  'Recalling 1993' transforms Manhattan pay phones into audio time capsules

  By Aaron Souppouris on March 27, 2013 05:25 am + 4 comments

  New York City was a very different place twenty years ago. Recalling 1993 surfaces memories of Continue reading…

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  Article

  Found scrapbooks reveal a society obsessed with flight, or one man's elaborate fantasy

  By Jacob Kastrenakes on March 22, 2013 11:08 am + 1 comments

  A dozen scrapbooks were discovered intact after a house fire — it was the 1960s, and their owner, Continue reading…

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  Feature

  40 years of icons: the evolution of the modern computer interface

  By Jesse Hicks on March 21, 2013 12:00 pm + 233 comments

  Fifty years ago, the word “computer” had a very different meaning. Prior to World War II, the Continue reading…

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  Article

  The bizarre bunkerization of communist Albania

  By Aaron Souppouris on March 13, 2013 06:06 am + 19 comments

  Under communism, Albania was in a near perpetual state of paranoia, formally at war with neighboring Continue reading…

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  Article

  The checkered history of Google Street View

  By Louis Goddard on March 9, 2013 11:20 am + 13 comments

  TechCrunch has published an engrossing piece covering the full history of Google's controversial Continue reading…

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  Article

  Samsung exec says Windows 8 is 'no better than' Windows Vista

  By Sean Hollister on March 8, 2013 05:20 pm + 287 comments

  There's plenty of evidence that Windows 8 isn't the rousing success that Microsoft might have hoped Continue reading…

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  Article

  National Geographic celebrates 125 years of remarkable photography with new Tumblr

  By Amar Toor on March 8, 2013 05:31 am + 11 comments

  National Geographic this week unveiled a new Tumblr site devoted to showcasing some of the more Continue reading…