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20 Jan 2026 2 minute read 2 comments YoussoufDelve
On December 24, 2025, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, had celebrated seventy years of tracking Santa’s sleigh. According to legend, the tradition of tracking Santa’s sleigh began in November 1955, when a child trying to reach...
18 Jan 2026 4 minute read 9 comments rah
This is a heartfelt post and especially to my American friends. A little while back Kyle Gass – the little fat bald guy from Tenacious D – effectively got the band banned for an inappropriate one-liner about the “assassination” attempt on Donald Trum...
18 Jan 2026 1 minute read 0 comments mildandred
In "From Songs to Silence to Words: On Building a Body of Work and What Comes After" I like this candid statement by Smoljanović: "These spaces are treated not as stages, but as archives. There is no algorithm to please here, no trend to chase." This...
15 Jan 2026 4 minute read 0 comments Investigator515
Injection moulding would provide a technological revolution. When you think of injection moulding, you often think of modern designs that allow for the construction of plastic components that have intricate designs. This isn’t always the case, and th...
12 Jan 2026 4 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Those of us who became teenagers during some of the worst years in music history, we maybe had a tendency to over-gush about the great big alternative uprising of the early 1990s. But who could blame us? Well before 1990 hit, even the best veteran...
11 Jan 2026 1 minute read 15 comments Yttrandefrihet
According to the ancient Greek historian Plutarch, the Athenians preserved the wooden ship on which the mythical hero Theseus returned from Crete after slaying the Minotaur. Over many years, as the original planks and timbers rotted, they were gradua...
10 Jan 2026 2 minute read 0 comments YoussoufDelve
« are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country ; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. » These were the first lin...
9 Jan 2026 5 minute read 1 comment Investigator515
Compromised encryption machines would lead to an intel bonanza that lasted decades. Today, we can communicate globally in a matter of seconds. Texts, pictures, and even voice messages traverse the globe, and for the most part, we don’t even give them...
4 Jan 2026 2 minute read 3 comments Melina Mehr
As nationwide protests in Iran enter yet another intense chapter, I felt the need, in the midst of all this, to look back at the years gone by—to remember the protests from decades past and the quiet, trembling memories I carry from my university d...
2 Jan 2026 6 minute read 3 comments Investigator515
Sometimes, the most humble inventions can have the biggest impact.In the last few articles, we’ve taken a walk back through some of the things that helped us enable globalisation. As part of this, we explored the Shipping Container, the Container Shi...
