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Re:Shattered skeleton is first confirmed death from trebuchet on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @01:02AM (#49341480)

Our modern weapons are far more destructive, but our propensity for violence and war seems to be an invariant across the millennia.

History of QR Code

Posted by helloworld on Saturday May 02, 2026 @04:50PM
from the qrcode.com dept.

https://www.qrcode.com/en/history/

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A Pale Blue Dot

Posted by helloworld on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @12:15PM
from the planetary.org dept.

https://www.planetary.org/worlds/pale-blue-dot

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Q&A about the Windows Start Menu and Taskbar

Posted by helloworld on Sunday August 24, 2025 @11:42AM
from the archive.blogs.harvard.edu dept.

https://archive.blogs.harvard.edu/danieloran/2022/11/28/qa-about-the-windows-start-menu-and-taskbar/

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Re:First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV on Thursday May 08, 2025 @04:07PM (#43930763)

President Barack Obama didn't support same-sex marriage until May 9, 2012, three days after Vice President Joe Biden announced his support for it.

https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/obama-comes-ou...

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/07/us/politics/biden-express...

Re:Designers Do a Double Take at the Lettering on Pope Francis' Tombstone on Sunday May 04, 2025 @02:12PM (#43888343)

https://archive.ph/BX8CO

Designers Do a Double Take at the Lettering on Pope Francis' Tombstone

Posted by helloworld on Sunday May 04, 2025 @02:11PM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/world/europe/pope-francis-tomb-lettering.html

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Google begged Steve Jobs for permission to hire engineers (2014)

Posted by helloworld on Friday May 02, 2025 @05:51PM
from the web.archive.org dept.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140328031446/http://pando.com/2014/03/27/how-steve-jobs-forced-google-to-cancel-its-plan-to-open-a-paris-office/

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How to Secure Your Phone's Data Before Traveling Abroad

Posted by helloworld on Thursday May 01, 2025 @02:09PM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/technology/personaltech/travel-burner-phone-cbp.html

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Origin of the term "riding" in Canadian electoral politics

Posted by helloworld on Monday April 28, 2025 @11:40AM
from the bluestarstrategies.com dept.

https://bluestarstrategies.com/bluestarbyte-origin-of-the-term-riding-in-canadian-electoral-politics/

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The Story of Fluoridation

Posted by helloworld on Friday April 11, 2025 @04:28PM
from the nidcr.nih.gov dept.

https://www.nidcr.nih.gov/health-info/fluoride/the-story-of-fluoridation

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Re:The Panicked Voice on the Phone Sounded Like Her Daughter. It Wasn't on Saturday April 05, 2025 @01:36PM (#43595123)

https://archive.ph/R3AYI

The Panicked Voice on the Phone Sounded Like Her Daughter. It Wasn't

Posted by helloworld on Saturday April 05, 2025 @01:36PM
from the wsj.com dept.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/the-panicked-voice-on-the-phone-sounded-like-her-daughter-it-wasnt-8d04cbc1

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America's astonishing act of self-harm

Posted by helloworld on Thursday April 03, 2025 @04:14PM
from the ft.com dept.

https://www.ft.com/content/21454c08-8e1c-4335-84f9-ef2d0e1aeb14

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Why the chicken tax still controls the U.S. light truck market (2024)

Posted by helloworld on Monday March 31, 2025 @12:12PM
from the autoblog.com dept.

https://www.autoblog.com/news/why-the-chicken-tax-still-controls-the-us-light-truck-market

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Madison Square Garden's surveillance banned this fan over his T-shirt design

Posted by helloworld on Friday March 28, 2025 @08:08PM
from the theverge.com dept.

https://www.theverge.com/news/637228/madison-square-garden-james-dolan-facial-recognition-fan-ban

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Good conversations have lots of doorknobs (2022)

Posted by helloworld on Thursday March 20, 2025 @05:25PM
from the experimental-history.com dept.

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/good-conversations-have-lots-of-doorknobs

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The Body Clock Awakening

Posted by helloworld on Thursday March 20, 2025 @02:02PM
from the owaves.com dept.

https://owaves.com/the-body-clock-awakening-its-time-to-heal/

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Re:Sublogic Flight Simulator – By Paul Lefebvre on Sunday March 09, 2025 @07:43PM (#43315135)

Sublogic also created A2-3D1, which was a fun, but very rudimentary, 3D animation package for the Apple II:

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1980-10/page/n27/m...

Impact of 8 lifestyle factors on mortality and life expectancy among US veterans

Posted by helloworld on Friday March 07, 2025 @01:52PM
from the sciencedirect.com dept.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000291652366280X

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Eating citrus may lower depression risk

Posted by helloworld on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @03:04PM
from the news.harvard.edu dept.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/02/eating-citrus-may-lower-depression-risk/

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NASA Gives 'All Clear' for Asteroid That Seemed to Threaten Earth

Posted by helloworld on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @01:20AM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/science/asteroid-2024-yr4.html

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How many wars have France and England fought against each other?

Posted by helloworld on Monday February 24, 2025 @10:16PM
from the thefrenchhistorypodcast.com dept.

https://www.thefrenchhistorypodcast.com/how-many-wars-have-france-and-england-fought-against-each-other/

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The odds of a city-killer asteroid impact in 2032 keep rising

Posted by helloworld on Sunday February 23, 2025 @04:02PM
from the arstechnica.com dept.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/02/the-odds-of-a-city-killer-asteroid-impact-in-2032-keep-rising-should-we-be-worried/

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Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity at Any Dose Reduces Dementia Risk

Posted by helloworld on Saturday February 22, 2025 @03:07PM
from the jamda.com dept.

https://www.jamda.com/article/S1525-8610(24)00879-X/abstract

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Paxlovid: You'd Have Expected More

Posted by helloworld on Friday February 21, 2025 @08:05PM
from the science.org dept.

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/paxlovid-you-d-have-expected-more

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Apollo Guidance Computer

Posted by helloworld on Thursday February 20, 2025 @10:51PM
from the en.wikipedia.org dept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer

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Like it or not, AI is learning how to influence you

Posted by helloworld on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @02:44PM
from the venturebeat.com dept.

https://venturebeat.com/ai/like-it-or-not-ai-is-learning-how-to-influence-you/

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Re:Every AI has a personality – and why it matters on Monday February 17, 2025 @11:41AM (#43080746)

But the article explains that human-like AI triggers a "person perception" process similar to the one that we use when we meet people.

Every AI has a personality – and why it matters

Posted by helloworld on Monday February 17, 2025 @11:34AM
from the danieloran.github.io dept.

https://danieloran.github.io/2025/02/17/ai-personality.html

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