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| Sep 9, 2026 | Lonnie Bunch to retire from Smithsonian leadership following clash with Trump administration | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MEG KINNARD and GARY FIELDS, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lonnie Bunch is stepping down from the leadership of the Smithsonian Institution following a tumultuous year in which President Do... |
| Sep 1, 2026 | Прибытие IBM PC, часть 2: Цунами | |
| Aug 31, 2026 | Resources for 9/11 classroom activities | This year is the 25th anniversary of the tragic 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States. As the country prepares to remember and reflect on this historic event, many classrooms across Iowa are planning how they will observe and honor th... |
| Aug 18, 2026 | Pull up to the window, please, for a glimpse of an American icon: The drive-thru | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By ASHRAF KHALIL
WASHINGTON (AP) — Full disclosure: this should really be two tales. How better to pay tribute to the natural and perhaps inevitable combination of two distinctly American icons: fa... |
| Aug 4, 2026 | Девять жизней одного приложения: как менялся Word с развитием технологий | На первый взгляд за 40+ лет на рынке Word почти не изменился: белый лист, курсор, шрифты, абзацы, кнопка сохранения. Но в реальности он прожил несколько разных жизней – от текстового процессора эпохи DOS до облачного редактора с совместной ... |
| Jul 24, 2026 | Trump orders new signs outside Smithsonian saying some exhibits are inaccurate | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By JONATHAN J. COOPER
President Donald Trump ordered his administration Friday to install signs in front of the Smithsonian Institution ‘s U.S. history museum telling visitors that some of the exhi... |
| Jul 21, 2026 | Smithsonian history museum chief rejects White House criticism of its leaders as radical activists | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By STEVEN SLOAN
WASHINGTON (AP) — The director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History pushed back Tuesday against a recent White House report that branded the institution’s leader... |
| Jul 6, 2026 | White House report brands Smithsonian leadership as radical activists who can’t be trusted | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By STEVE PEOPLES, AP National Politics Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — A White House report brands the leadership of the Smithsonian Institution, especially at the National Museum of American History, as ra... |
| Jun 30, 2026 | The Chef Tours Welcomes Two Extraordinary Women Chefs to Paris and Istanbul | Wine is food
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Chef Sophie Brissaud joins The Chef Tours Paris. Chef Fey joins The Chef Tours Istanbul strengthening the company's commitment to chef-led culinary experiences.
Adding Chef Sophie and Chef Fey reflects not ... |
| May 12, 2026 | May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month | Online resources are available to learn about the contributions of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander individuals and communities.
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| Apr 10, 2026 | Онлайн-шахматы до интернета: партия по телеграфу в 1844 году | В 1844 году два шахматных клуба — в Вашингтоне и Балтиморе — сыграли партию на расстоянии 60 километров. Ходы передавали по проводу с помощью телеграфа. По сути, это была первая «онлайн-игра» в истории.
За несколько месяцев до этого телегра... |
| Mar 13, 2026 | Low and slow meets forever: US postage stamps honor lowrider car culture | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — From Mexican American and Chicano barrios in the American Southwest to the halls of the Smithsonian on the National Mall and even the streets of Japa... |
| Mar 11, 2026 | Top Attractions You Can Access with USA Experience Tickets | Share
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| Feb 13, 2026 | - | What: The U.S. Postal Service will commemorate quiltmaker Harriet Powers (1837–1910) with four new stamps. Powers was a formerly enslaved woman who stitched works that are celebrated as masterpieces of American folk art and storytelling.
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| Aug 20, 2025 | Trump slams US museums for focus on 'how bad slavery was' | WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Tuesday (Aug 19) criticised top museums for their "woke" focus on subjects including "how bad slavery was," his latest attack on the cultural institutions in a country that fought... |
| Aug 19, 2025 | Trump vows to target ‘woke’ museums with same playbook used on Columbia, Harvard | President Donald Trump said he has ordered his lawyers to “go through” what he calls “woke” content at Smithsonian museums and possibly others.
He ordered them to “start the exact same process that has been done with Colleges and Universiti... |
| Aug 13, 2025 | US to probe Smithsonian museums to remove 'partisan narratives' | WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump's administration said on Tuesday (Aug 12) it had ordered a sweeping review of some Smithsonian museums to ensure their exhibitions laud American exceptionalism and "remove divisive or partisan narr... |
| Aug 12, 2025 | A 133-Year-Old Photography Company Is Warning That It Could Shutter Operations Eastman Kodak started over a century ago and rose to prominence in the mid-20th century with its portable cameras — but digital cameras disrupted its hold on the market. | A company once synonymous with photography is now telling investors that it doesn't have enough cash to pay off its debts, raising concerns about its continued presence.
In a Monday second-quarter earnings report, 133-year-old company Eastm... |
| Aug 6, 2025 | Restoration of torn-down Confederate monument will cost $10 million over 2 years, military says | It was erected more than a century ago
The Confederate monument, erected in 1914, was the creation of sculptor and Confederate veteran Moses Ezekiel. It features a classical female figure, crowned with olive leaves, representing the America... |
| Aug 3, 2025 | US museum says Trump administration did not compel impeachment display removal | WASHINGTON: The recent removal of a placard at the National Museum of American History that detailed Donald Trump's two impeachments did not come after White House pressure, the museum's parent organization said on Saturday (Aug 2).
The pla... |
| Jul 24, 2025 | Jazz legend Chuck Mangione, known for ‘Feels So Good,’ dies at 84 | Mangione, a flugelhorn and trumpet player and jazz composer, released more than 30 albums during a career in which he built a sizable following after recording several albums, doing all the writing.
He won his first Grammy Award in 1977 for... |
| Feb 13, 2025 | Как в холодном Петербурге горячую коробку изобрели | Немец Франц Сан-Галли переехал в Петербург по рабочим вопросам, но решил остаться и начать своё дело (он обожал чугунное литьё).
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| Nov 29, 2024 | Математическая продлёнка. Изобретаем эллиптические числа | Продолжаем разбираться с числостроительством в серии заметок «Изобретаем числа». В предыдущих статьях этой серии мы последовательно подходили к построению числовых систем (алгебраических структур, которые я неформально называю арифметиками)... |
| Nov 13, 2024 | Bitcoin's Bright Future: Dorsey Returns to Africa | The Africa Bitcoin Conference (ABC) is set to make waves once again. This December, Nairobi, Kenya, will host the third edition of this groundbreaking event. The spotlight? Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter and Block, is back. His pres... |
| Nov 8, 2024 | Travel | 7 ‘Wicked’ good ideas for an Oz-inspired vacation | New York City is home to the Broadway version, which has been playing in the Gershwin Theatre since 2003. In 2023, it became Broadway’s fourth longest-running production.
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Stay in the Oz-inspired, themed suite at t... |
| Aug 26, 2024 | Празднуем день рождения на древнем компьютере с BASIC | Этим летом я занимался созданием нового приложения для машины, продажи которой закончились в 1980 году, и которая не была рассчитана на поддержку графики, сети и даже букв в нижнем регистре. Её продавала компания, обанкротившаяся десяток ле... |
| Jun 26, 2024 | Процессор на костях: как изобретатели XIX века пытались превратить счеты в компьютер | Счеты имеют долгую и интересную историю. Их прототип, абак, появился за несколько веков до нашей эры, а конец эпохи счетов пришелся уже на наше время — они массово использовались вплоть до 1970-х годов. Несмотря на такую живучесть, счеты не... |
| May 10, 2024 | От первых искр до Уимсхерта: эволюция электростатических генераторов | Начиная с 17 века, человечество активно пыталось получать электрический ток для своих нужд — например, для потехи публики и простых научных экспериментов. Первые машины работали только за счет трения и были примитивными и непрактичными. Но ... |
| Mar 29, 2024 | 8BitDo’s $100 wireless mechanical keyboard is a tribute to Commodore 64 | reader comments 115
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| Mar 8, 2024 | Why the U.S. lags in putting women on money | U.S. society is going cash free sooner than the centuries-old country has put a woman historical figure on a paper bill.
Why it matters: The U.S. lags behind many of its peers that have women on currency — see England's late Queen Elizabeth... |
| Feb 10, 2024 | Addiator или арифметика на шести рейках | Addiator Duplex. Источник: Flickr, CC BY 2.0
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| Nov 28, 2023 | A 'Sesame Street' puppet wrangler says she bakes real cookies for Cookie Monster, though you probably wouldn't want to eat them | Cookie Monster reaching toward a plate of cookies. Nathan Congleton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images
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| Oct 7, 2023 | How 1880s technology made it possible for 2 women to travel around the world in under 80 days | Nellie Bly in her traveling dress and coat. Bettmann/Getty Images
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In 1889, journalist Nellie Bly set off on a trip around the world, trying to make it under 80 days.
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| Sep 19, 2023 | 18 vintage photos show how high schools have changed in the US | News 18 vintage photos show how high schools have changed in the US
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| Aug 30, 2023 | Cum am ajuns la „mini-computere” pe încheietura mâinii? Smartwatch-ul, de la un „lux” la un gadget accesibil | Smartwatch-ul a început ca un accesoriu de lux care avea opțiuni simple, cum ar fi cea de calculator. Între timp, ceasurile inteligente au devenit mult mai accesibile și, în același timp, au devenit mult mai capabile. Astăzi, un smartwatch ... |
| Jul 25, 2023 | Dome homes could be climate change savior | The climate change homes of tomorrow could be dome structures — cheap to build and resilient against hurricane-force winds.
Why it matters: Experts say increasingly hostile weather could lead homebuilders to popularize disaster-proof design... |
| Jul 8, 2023 | A professor found $550,000 of 'floating gold' in the entrails of a dead sperm whale. Here's why ambergris is so expensive. | Ambergris. Smithsonian National Museum of American History
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A professor found a lump of ambergris, or "floating gold," worth 500,000 euros in a dead whale.
The rare substance, which is normally found floating in the sea,... |
| Jun 30, 2023 | The history of Apple in photos, from the early Steve Jobs era and iPhone launch to crossing the $3 trillion milestone under Tim Cook | Kuni/AP
Apple's market cap passed $3 trillion on Friday morning.
But the iPhone-maker almost didn't make it this far — it struggled in the '90s until Steve Jobs returned as the company's CEO.
Apple has weathered hits and flops over the year... |
| May 2, 2023 | Путь службы поддержки: от древности к современности | Есть хорошая фраза: «Невозможно управлять тем, что нельзя измерить». Ее авторство приписывают многим – от Питера Друкера до Билла Хьюлетта. На схожем принципе основан и цикл Деминга (Plan-Do-Check-Act) – запланировали, реализовали, проверил... |
| Apr 26, 2023 | «Националь»: ранняя история легендарных кассовых аппаратов | В наши дни никого не удивить различными видами контрольно-кассовых машин (ККМ) и терминалов, фиксирующих кассовые операции, выдающих чеки, направляющих данные сразу в ФНС и обладающих целым набором других удобных и нужных современному бизне... |
| Apr 14, 2023 | We're Challenging the Racist Practice That Excludes Black Jurors from Death Penalty Cases | Leo Jones, a Black man, was convicted and sentenced to death by an all-white Florida jury in 1982 for the killing of a white police officer.
The conviction rested on a key witness who later recanted his testimony, and a coerced confession f... |
| Apr 8, 2023 | The height differences between all the US presidents and first ladies | Though they've achieved similar heights of political success, some US presidents' and their first ladies' physical heights differ greatly.
George Washington was more than a foot taller than his wife, Martha, according to historical records.... |
| Apr 7, 2023 | Fashion Supply Chain Transparency Takes Center Stage | VP, Strategic Accounts at CGS. Engaged in strategy and initiatives surrounding traceability, sustainability and ESG performance. |
| Jan 19, 2023 | Stop the Charade: The Federal Budget Is Its Own ‘Debt-Ceiling’ | |
| Jan 18, 2023 | Telephone Inventor Alexander Graham Bell's Voice Can Now be Heard After the Recovery of Century-Old Records | Jace Dela Cruz, Tech Times 18 January 2023, 08:01 pm
Have you ever wondered what the voice of the telephone inventor sounded like?
An unplayable recording of Alexander Graham Bell was found by Smithsonian Institution researchers in 2013 at ... |
| Jan 14, 2023 | Краткий очерк истории микроволновых печей | История микроволновых печей — как раз тот случай, когда реальная история подменяется мифологией, и множество «копирайтеров» растаскивают по интернету байку, укореняя её в массовом сознании как факт, что она была изобретена случайно. Якобы и... |
| Jan 9, 2023 | Smithsonian National Museum of American History First Woman Director To Speak In Phoenix | Dr. Anthea Hartig
Luncheon Will Honor Justice Sandra Day O’Connor
PHOENIX, AZ, UNITED STATES, January 9, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Dr. Anthea Hartig, the first woman to serve as Director of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Am... |
| Jan 7, 2023 | Governor Newsom Inaugurated to Second Term in Celebration of California’s Values, Diverse Communities | Watch Governor Newsom’s swearing-in and inaugural address here
SACRAMENTO – On the two-year anniversary of the attack on our nation’s Capitol, Governor Gavin Newsom was today inaugurated to a second term alongside Californians in a celebrat... |
| Dec 21, 2022 | What Makes Crypto Such A Poor Substitute For Cash? The Smithsonian Offers Some Priceless Insights. | Before declaring independence on July 9, 2011, becoming the world’s youngest officially recognized nation-state, the Republic of South Sudan selected a flag, an anthem, and a currency. Within a week of secession, the South Sudanese pound wa... |
| Oct 14, 2022 | The US Army is spending $353 million on a suitcase-size weapon that can 'hear' enemy tanks and fire armor-piercing slugs at them | A US Marine and Thai troops train for landmine disposal in February 2019. US Marine Corps/Cpl. Jamin M. Powell
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The US Army is working on a new landmines designed to attack the thinner armor on the top of tanks.
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| Aug 16, 2022 | What Is Biopharma? | Produced by biotechnology, biopharmaceuticals are a type of medical drug. Nucleic acids (such as DNA, RNA, or antisense oligonucleotides) and proteins (such as antibodies) utilized for therapeutic or in vivo diagnostic reasons must be deriv... |
| May 6, 2022 | U.S. Department of Education Announces Intent to Strengthen and Protect Rights for Students with Disabilities by Amending Regulations Implementing Section 504 | Forty-five years after publication of the regulations implementing Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the landmark disability civil rights law, the U.S. Department of Education announced plans to gather public input on possible ... |
| Apr 22, 2022 | AI Is Getting Boring—And That’s A Good Thing | Dr. Lewis Z. Liu, CEO and co-founder of Eigen Technologies, a global intelligent document processing (IDP) provider. |
| Jan 13, 2022 | 19 times first ladies’ outfits included symbols and hidden meanings | Michelle Obama, Melania Trump, and Dr. Jill Biden have all worn outfits with subtle — or not so subtle — meanings. Emmanuel Dunand/Getty Images; Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images; Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Many first ladies have sent message... |
| Dec 17, 2021 | One New Year’s Resolution We Should All Make And Keep | It’s that time of year for us to make New Year’s Resolutions that will fail by the second week of January. |
| Nov 12, 2021 | Q3'21 Shareholder Letter | SHAREHOLDER LETTER Q3 2021
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| Oct 29, 2021 | A Google executive’s passion for collecting locks of presidential hair | Jared Cohen, a Google executive and historian, with a lock of John F. Kennedy’s hair that is part of his extensive presidential hair collection. Alan Chin for Insider
Interest in the presidential hair market surged during the pandemic, as b... |
| Oct 6, 2021 | 16 of the most controversial outfits first ladies have worn | Perhaps Melania Trump’s most notorious fashion moment was a jacket from Zara that said, ‘I really don’t care do U?’ Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
First ladies’ fashion choices have been scrutinized for centuries.
Frances Cleveland was criti... |
| Oct 1, 2021 | Telia touts 5G coverage as 1G turns 40 | Telia’s 5G network now covers 5.55 million people in the Nordics and Baltics, the carrier announced Friday as it celebrated four decades since 1G networks launched in Sweden.
Forty years ago on October 1, 1981, Telia and Ericsson turned on ... |
| Aug 15, 2021 | 15 things you probably didn’t know about Julia Child | Julia Child has been credited with inspiring millions of American home cooks to experiment with French cooking. Aaron Rapoport/CORBIS OUTLINE/Corbis/ Getty Images
Julia Child was born on August 15, 1912, in Pasadena, California.
Her first b... |
| Apr 5, 2021 | Did You Know? 14 Strange But True Tech Facts | In the grand scheme of things, it could be argued we're still in the infancy of the Information Age. Many of the breakthroughs and discoveries made since the advent of the transistor were simply inconceivable a century ago. Yet despite bein... |
| Mar 4, 2021 | Vintage photos show how the role of women in the workforce has evolved in the last 100 years | Strategy Vintage photos show how the role of women in the workforce has evolved in the last 100 years
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| Feb 1, 2021 | New Partnership Makes Names Of Cannabis Prisoners Front And Center | Close-up of hand in jail backgroundgetty |
| Aug 18, 2020 | The most popular tech gadget from the year you were born | Executive Lifestyle The most popular tech gadget from the year you were born
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| Jun 7, 2020 | This bot hunts software bugs for the Pentagon | reader comments 42 with 37 posters participating
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| May 14, 2020 | COVID-19 shows we need Universal Basic Internet now | Kevin Frazier Contributor
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| Apr 29, 2020 | School Children Without Internet. We Could Fix That. | COVID has forced American public school students to learn online. But nearly half don’t have broadband and 20 percent aren’t connected at all. While we’re debating UBI, why don’t we invest in making the lives of others better? |
| Apr 10, 2020 | COBOL programmers are in demand to fight the coronavirus pandemic | Wanted: COBOL programmers. You wouldn’t expect to see them on the list of high priorities alongside ventilators, face masks, and healthcare workers, but COBOL programmers are in growing demand in some states in the fight against the coronav... |
| Mar 19, 2020 | Learning In The Time Of COVID-19 | Some useful resources to support learning in the time of COVID-19 |
| Mar 2, 2019 | Is Education Entering the ‘Age of Alternatives’? | Has anyone else noticed that some of the new schools being built, including much-celebrated “schools of tomorrow” resemble Google headquarters, as well as each other?
Without ignoring that much of what differentiates one school from another... |
| Jan 16, 2019 | What we know, and don't know, about Jeff Bezos' religious beliefs | Entertainment What we know, and don't know, about Jeff Bezos' religious beliefs
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| Sep 2, 2018 | Almanac: The revolutionary ATM | And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: September 2nd, 1969, 49 years ago today … the day a bank in Rockville Centre, New York, introduced the new face of banking. The first ATM is recognized at a ceremony at the Smithso... |
| Aug 6, 2018 | 20 crazy things people have tried to smuggle past the TSA at airports | AP
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The TSA or US Transportation Security Administration maintains a blog showcasing the most ridiculous items they've confiscated.
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| May 10, 2018 | The IndieBeat: Archeogaming is another effort to delve into the history of games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Soon after Andrew Reinhard started his Archaeogaming website in 2013, he got a chance to practice video game archaeology in the real wo... |
| Feb 6, 2018 | New Union-Tribune owner ambitious, controversial | Patrick Soon-Shiong, the billionaire medical entrepreneur who this morning has agreed to buy the Los Angeles Times and the Union-Tribune, made his fortune fighting cancer and his name pursuing ambitious projects.
“Push yourself!” he said in... |
| Jan 9, 2018 | Please Rise for Trump's Bizarre Rendition of the National Anthem | There are plenty of great national anthems out there—the Brazilian national anthem is beautiful, "O Canada" slaps, and "La Marseillaise" is so good that it can double as a movie musical number. "The Star-Spangled Ba... |
| Nov 6, 2017 | AI-enabled technologies could help museums survive the digital age | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Nov 6, 2017 | AI-enabled technologies could help museums survive the digital age | By definition, museums store and display objects of historical, scientific, artistic, or cultural significance. Want to see dinosaur skeletons, medical oddities, Civil War weapons, or Renoir masterpieces? There’s a museum out there for you.... |
| Apr 27, 2017 | As Chromebook sales soar in schools, Apple and Microsoft fight back | Few saw the Chromebook coming. When it launched half a decade ago, the category was broadly maligned for its limited feature set, middling hardware specs and operation that required an always-on internet connection to work properly. But thi... |
| Oct 31, 2015 | The History Of Gaming: An Evolving Community | Riad Chikhani Contributor
Riad Chikhani is co-founder and CEO of gaming social network Gamurs.
Since its commercial birth in the 1950s as a technological oddity at a science fair, gaming has blossomed into one of the most profitable enterta... |
| Jul 20, 2015 | Back to the future: the TRS-80 Model 100 | reader comments 99 with 76 posters participating, including story author
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| Jun 30, 2015 | Thirsty Tuesday times three [Events Roundup] | This week, we recommend you go check out the Smithsonian National Museum of American History’s new Innovation Wing, especially if you have kids. The grand opening will feature the making of a record-breaking U.S. flag made of Legos. And to ... |
| Dec 18, 2014 | Video Game Dug Up from Landfill Ends Up in the Smithsonian | Anu Passary, Tech Times 18 December 2014, 06:12 am
A video game from the 1980s, which was dug up from a landfill in New Mexico, has found its way to the Smithsonian in Washington.
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History has ac... |
| Community marks 80th anniversary of Japanese internment with reflection, hope | Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story!
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| 12 vintage photos of computer labs that will make you realize how different school is today | Hillary Rodham Clinton in a computer lab in 1995. Beth A. Keiser/Associated Press
Before the invention of laptops and tablets, using technology to learn meant visiting your school's computer lab.
From modern computing's early beginnings in ... |
| EGEB: PA swing voters care a lot about pollution; a high carbon tax might work, more | In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
An Allentown, PA, town hall revealed that voters in the swing state are worried about pollution and climate change.
A new model suggests carbon taxes should start high and then fall, bucking pr... |
| A psychedelic therapist allegedly took millions from a Holocaust survivor, highlighting worries about elders taking hallucinogens | He made a new life for himself in California. After surviving the Holocaust and growing up under Hungarian fascism and Russia’s communist regime, George Sarlo arrived in the United States as an 18-year-old refugee. Over the decades, he beca... |
| A man took a retrofitted electric 1964 Volkswagen Bus on a 6,000 mile road trip from San Francisco to New York and back. See inside his cross-country adventure. | The retrofitted electric 1964 Volkswagen Bus Courtesy of Jack Smith
Jack Smith took a 1964 Volkswagen Bus that was converted into an electric car on a 42-day road trip.
The 65-year-old traveled from San Francisco to New York City and back w... |
| Ray Dalio, Bill Gates and Jack Dorsey started their careers before turning 15—now they're all billionaires | Most kids between 8- and 13-years-old spend their days riding bikes, playing video games and avoiding homework. Ray Dalio, Bill Gates and Jack Dorsey weren't most kids.
The trio of billionaires each found their professional calling before t... |
| The Google executive who collects presidential hair | Interest in the presidential hair market surged during the pandemic, as buyers, cooped up at home, splurged on collectibles.
The most valuable, a lock from Abraham Lincoln shorn off on the night of his assassination, sold for $81,250.
Googl... |
| Uber compra startup que desenvolve caminhões autônomos | Após revelar hoje que seus primeiros carros autônomos começarão a circular ainda este mês em Pittsburgh, a Uber acaba de anunciar a aquisição da Otto, empresa de tecnologia que desenvolve caminhões autônomos. As empresas não revelaram o val... |