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| Aug 14, 2026 | NH Senate Race Update: Senator Who Wanted to Sunset Social Security Will Stump for GOP Senate Nominee | NH Senate Race Update: Senator Who Wanted to Sunset Social Security Will Stump for GOP Senate Nominee
Florida Senator Rick Scott, who authored a plan that would have “sunset Social Security and Medicare” within just five years, is visiting ... |
| Aug 14, 2026 | REMINDER: Sununu Was a “Leading Figure in the Effort” to Privatize Social Security | REMINDER: Sununu Was a “Leading Figure in the Effort” to Privatize Social Security
On the 91st anniversary of Social Security becoming law, here’s a reminder that Republican U.S. Senate candidate John Sununu was a “leading figure in the eff... |
| Jul 1, 2026 | ICYMI: Christine Duerr: Anniversary of Dobbs decision is a sobering reminder of Senate stakes | For immediate release:
July 1, 2026
ICYMI: Christine Duerr: Anniversary of Dobbs decision is a sobering reminder of Senate stakes
In Case You Missed It, a Concord Monitor op-ed by Christine Duerr knocked Republican U.S. Senate candidates Jo... |
| Jun 24, 2026 | REMINDER: Sununu, Brown Have Extreme, Anti-Choice Records | REMINDER: Sununu, Brown Have Extreme, Anti-Choice Records
Today, on the four-year anniversary of the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade and ripped away reproductive rights across the country, here’s a reminder that U.S. Senate candi... |
| Jun 9, 2026 | REMINDER: Sununu Was a Leading Architect of a Scheme to Privatize Social Security | For immediate release:
June 9, 2026
REMINDER: Sununu Was a Leading Architect of a Scheme to Privatize Social Security
A new CBS report shows that Trump’s Big Ugly Bill — which U.S. Senate candidate and “leading figure in the effort” to priv... |
| May 15, 2026 | Maine might boot Sen. Susan Collins. It could hurt the state’s wallet for years | Maine might vote out its longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins. She holds a powerful post in the Senate that would hurt the state to lose.
The matchup between Collins and Graham Platner, an oysterman and veteran who has never held an elect... |
| Dec 29, 2025 | «История игрушек» уже не такая, какой вы её помните | Гибрид
«История игрушек» выглядела иначе, но объяснить это будет немного сложно.
В 1995 году компьютерная графика была самой важной темой в индустрии, и в центре этого ажиотажа находилась Pixar. Эта студия уже заставила Disney перейти на ко... |
| Sep 30, 2025 | ICE Arrests Iowa School Superintendent Who Doesn’t Even Match The Mugshot Photo It Posted | No matter what Trump says, ICE is never going to be going after the “worst of the worst.” If White House advisor Stephen Miller wants 3,000 arrests per day, ICE is just going to have to go after anyone who looks foreign, which basically mea... |
| Sep 23, 2025 | Как в 80-х пейджеры запрещали, а обратно не разрешили | Как участник родительских чатов (который сидит в них как неопознанный шакал, то есть тише воды, ниже травы), я вижу, что отечественных родителей очень волнует влияние смартфонов на неокрепшие умы детей.
Занимательно, что задолго до появлени... |
| May 6, 2025 | The End of an Era: Skype's Shutdown and the Evolution of Digital Communication | On May 5, 2025, Microsoft pulled the plug on Skype. After 22 years, the digital communication giant faded into the background. It was a service that once revolutionized how we connected. Launched in 2003, Skype transformed voice and video c... |
| May 5, 2025 | The War On Internet Phone Calls | Today Microsoft shut down Skype, a company that helped revolutionize phone calls online. To commemorate the death of Skype, we’re running a recent “Pessimist’s Archive” article on the history of internet calls, and how it almost wasn’t allo... |
| Dec 9, 2024 | The 1800s Had ‘Brainrot’ Too! | The following is republished from the excellent Pessimist’s Archive, with permission.
The Oxford Dictionary just added “brainrot” as its newest official word—a cynical, but tongue-in-cheek term for consuming too much short-form social media... |
| Nov 15, 2024 | The AD-X2 Saga: A Tale of Innovation, Deception, and Congressional Drama | In the aftermath of World War II, America was a land of opportunity. The war had left a mark, but it also sparked innovation. Among the hopefuls was Jess M. Ritchie, a bulldozer operator from California. He claimed to have discovered a mira... |
| Nov 15, 2024 | AD-X2: присадка для аккумуляторов, взбудоражившая Америку | На дворе 1947 год, и США оправляются от разрушительных последствий Второй мировой войны. Жизнь людей потихоньку возвращается в мирное русло, и многие ищут новые способы заработать.
Одним из таких людей стал Джесс М. Ричи — оператор бульдозе... |
| Oct 4, 2024 | The 1912 War On Fake Photos | In recent weeks there has been a flurry of laws, regulatory proposals, and lawsuits regarding “deepfakes,” along with the usual rising levels of concern in the media about how the world won’t be able to handle this. For some perspective, th... |
| Sep 1, 2024 | Разбираемся в устройстве 26-килограммового принтера с борта «Шаттла» | На борту «Спейс Шаттла» находился громоздкий принтер, который был нужен для того, чтобы астронавты могли получать процедуры, планы миссий, метеосводки, планы действий экипажа и другие документы. Принтер, необходимый для первого запуска «Шат... |
| Jun 20, 2024 | When The Surgeon General Warned About Pac-Man | We had a post earlier this week about the silliness of the Surgeon General’s idea for a warning on social media, and that linked to a longer piece Mike wrote about it at The Daily Beast, which talked about a similar push by former Surgeon G... |
| Jun 5, 2024 | Выживание самых богатых: пузырь ядерных убежищ времён Холодной войны | Угроза ядерного нападения во времена Холодной войны заставила американцев делать потребительский выбор, доведённый до крайней степени: покупай или умри. Сегодня ситуация не сильно изменилась.
Брошюры и полностраничные газетные объявления Ле... |
| May 20, 2024 | Driving Change: "Nashville's Drive to Work Solutions Symposium" | On May 31 st, attendees will learn how "money-ready" solutions and public-private partnerships currently in place can address Greater Nashville's pressing transportation challenges
NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 20, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/... |
| May 5, 2024 | Забытая война с пейджерами | До появления смартфонов под пристальным вниманием наших родителей, школ и законодателей были пейджеры.
Сегодня мы наблюдаем, как заботливые родители и законодатели начали стремиться оградить молодёжь от вредного влияния смартфонов с помощью... |
| May 1, 2024 | Atlanta tale "A Man in Full" premieres on Netflix | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Tom Wolfe's iconic tale about an Atlanta real-estate mogul watching his financial empire crumble in real time comes to Netflix on Thursday.
Why it matters: The six-episode series from David E. Kelley ... |
| Apr 30, 2024 | Plant Vogtle nuclear reactor starts commercial operations | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Georgia Power's two new nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle are now pumping electricity to customers' lights and laptops.
Why it matters: The start of "commercial operation" at Vogtle's Unit 4 ... |
| Mar 29, 2024 | As Hy-Vee expands nationally, Beaverdale residents question future of Des Moines site | "I've read a fair amount about Hy-Vee's regional/national expansion plans recently, but it's been several years since I've heard anything about a store at Douglas and Beaver. Were you able to find anything out about that location as pa... |
| Mar 20, 2024 | Duluth's Disney-inspired Haunted Mansion hits the market | An exact replica of Disney's Haunted Mansion in Duluth — built by a former Disney theme park contractor — can be yours for $2.2 million.
Why it matters: If you fell in love with the antebellum haunted house as a kid, you can now live there.... |
| Mar 4, 2024 | Atlanta's top cop could mingle with rock stars and close cases | Atlanta will never see another police chief, politician, or person like Eldrin Bell.
Why it matters: In 1990, then Mayor Maynard Jackson named Bell — a career cop whose charisma, panache and occasional brushes with controversy won your admi... |
| Mar 3, 2024 | MyHeritage launches OldNews historical newspaper platform | Genealogy website MyHeritage launched OldNews this week. The subscription-based service offers subscribers access to "hundreds of millions of historical newspaper pages from around the world," according to the official announcemen... |
| Jan 22, 2024 | How Intel's $20 billion Ohio One project is reshaping the Columbus region | Cranes line the horizon, over a billion pounds of earth have shifted and miles of new roadways are beginning to crisscross the countryside.
Why it matters: It's hard to comprehend the magnitude of Intel's developing Ohio One semiconductor p... |
| Sep 20, 2023 | История становления банкомата | Продать людям идею машины, которая выплёвывает деньги, было явно непросто. Но однажды случилось погодное явление, которое здорово поспособствовало принятию банкоматов как полезных для общества устройств.
14% — объём операций, совершенных с ... |
| Aug 17, 2023 | Remember when: A celebrated artist created Atlanta's most creative playground | On the western edge of Piedmont Park, there's a reminder that playgrounds can be artful and art can be playful.
Driving the news: Built in 1976, the one-acre modernist playground designed by prominent sculptor and landscape architect Isamu ... |
| Aug 1, 2023 | Человек, 14 раз выигравший в лотерею | Как ушлый румынский экономист легально обставил лотерейную систему, выиграв миллионы долларов по всему миру.
Вечером в минувшую среду один калифорниец выиграл $1,08 миллиарда в лотерею Powerball – это один из самых больших кушей в истории. ... |
| Jul 28, 2023 | Arizona History: Why tubers throw marshmallows in the Salt River and why they must stop | Salt River Tubing is banning marshmallows on its buses, ending a decades-long tradition in an attempt to stop pollution.
If you're wondering, "Why on Earth are people bringing marshmallows on their drunken tubing voyages," well, a... |
| Jul 6, 2023 | Atlanta's Omni Coliseum gave the Hawks a home | The Omni, Atlanta's first contemporary coliseum, had a cool name and looked like a concert hall designed by Darth Vader.
But the roughly 16,000-seat arena also had giant holes created by its rusting steel and only so much room for big spend... |
| Jun 29, 2023 | Fanplex's next chapter could be affordable housing | Fanplex, the publicly funded family fun zone that quickly became a money pit, finally has a long-term plan: more than 300 affordable housing units to serve the fast-gentrifying community.
Why it matters: Opportunities for affordable housing... |
| Jun 22, 2023 | Throwback Thursday: Cities on tilt | In the years post-World War II, few forms of entertainment were viewed as dangerous to society as the classic pinball machine.
The big picture: Pinball was long seen as a game of chance, not skill. Police chiefs and moralists reviled the ga... |
| Jun 13, 2023 | Mulching plant along Chattahoochee should close, council member says | A proposal to convert the defunct incinerator facility in northwest Atlanta into a major segment of the Chattahoochee RiverLands project might get an extra prodding from the Atlanta City Council.
Driving the news: Atlanta City Council membe... |
| Apr 2, 2023 | Trump's been indicted, but Ulysses S. Grant was the first president to be arrested | More than 150 years before former President Donald Trump was indicted, a sitting president, Ulysses S. Grant, was in trouble with the law.
Grant was an apparent speed demon with his horse and buggy. He was stopped by police in Washington fo... |
| Feb 7, 2023 | 5 Predictions For An Economic ‘Soft Landing’ That Were Totally Wrong | Headline from the September 3, 1973 cover of the New York Times about a "soft landing."New York Times |
| Nov 16, 2022 | After decades of setbacks, scientists make strides toward the holy grail of male birth control | The headlines spelled the end of a short-lived scientific hope: “Male birth control study nixed after men can’t handle side effects women face daily,” USA Today announced. “Men Back Out of Male Birth Control Study Because They Couldn’t Hand... |
| Jul 29, 2022 | Forty-Seven Years of Feckless Digging | Jimmy Hoffa disappeared 47 years ago tomorrow. He was last seen in the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox, a restaurant in the Detroit suburbs, at around 2:45 p.m. on July 30, 1975. And he was last heard from, on a call from a nearby pay pho... |
| Jul 25, 2022 | Remains unearthed at serial killer's "house of horrors" 41 years ago identified as missing teenager Theresa Fillingim | Investigators have confirmed that remains unearthed in a Florida junk yard 41 years ago match a missing teenager, the victim of a serial killer now imprisoned for life in California, sheriff's officials said.
Hernando County Sheriff's inves... |
| Feb 18, 2022 | John Hughes’ 20 best movies, ranked by critics | ‘Home Alone’ and ‘The Breakfast Club’ are just some of John Hughes’ best and most beloved films. 20th Century Fox; Universal Pictures
John Hughes is best known for his ’80s rom-coms, coming-of-age stories, and family films.
He was on the pu... |
| Dec 20, 2021 | Передача фотографий по проводам | Технология, используемая для распространения фотографий через новостные агентства, стала причиной появления инноваций, выходящих за рамки потребностей обычных газет. Как так вышло? Рассказываю.
В 1884 году немецкий технолог Пауль Нипков под... |
| Nov 24, 2021 | Крутящийся шар: история трекбола | Трекбол старше мыши, а поблагодарить за него мы должны канадских военных
Прежде чем аркадные автоматы для боулинга позаимствовали нечто от трекбола, изобретатели трекбола, как оказалось, позаимствовали нечто от настоящего боулинга. В частно... |
| Nov 22, 2021 | 10 забытых форматов изображений | Мир забыл уже много форматов изображений – от PCX и TGA до VRML. Не все стандарты изображений, какими бы они красивыми не были, живут долго.
Примерно 30 лет назад две разные рабочие группы заканчивали работу над техническими стандартами, ко... |
| Nov 11, 2021 | 5G has an image problem – how do telcos solve it? | Despite the range of potential uses for emerging 5G technologies, consumers are still largely in the dark. How can telcos better advertise the benefits of 5G based on where customers see value?
But with articles titled "The terrifying ... |
| Sep 1, 2021 | Photos show how New York City’s subway system has changed over the years | Inside of a New York City subway car in 1943 and a new car coming out in 2022. Bettmann/Contributor; Marc A. Hermann/MTA
New York City’s subway system has plans to add a new fleet in 2022 with wider doors and high-tech features.
Since the e... |
| Aug 7, 2021 | Guest Opinion: Kristina M. Lee: Walter Plywaski fought for atheists’ right to become citizens and his story is worth remembering
| Walter Plywaski fought for atheists to be given citizenship rights.
Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images
By Kristina M. Lee
Editor’s Note: Walter Plywaski lived in Boulder and was a longtime and cherished member of our commu... |
| Jul 30, 2021 | 50 classic films that flopped when they were first released | A ton of great movies didn’t do well at first. Paramount Pictures; Fox 2000 Pictures
Sometimes popular movies take a while to catch on and become a hit.
At first, critics hated movies like “Fight Club,” “Speed Racer,” and “Can’t Hardly Wait... |
| Feb 19, 2021 | ‘Leftist Scum’ Memer Raised $400K for Planned Parenthood as a Special Tribute to Rush Limbaugh | When Tommy Marcus learned that Rush Limbaugh had died, he grieved in the only way that felt right: He donated $100 to Planned Parenthood in Limbaugh’s memory, because the conservative radio host would have absolutely hated it.
Marcus posted... |
| Feb 8, 2021 | George Washington Carver Was An Artist Long Before He Became A Peanut Scientist | Last month, The Getty Foundation announced the grant recipients for the 2024 exhibit series “Pacific Standard Time 2024: Art x Science x LA”. This event will include different galleries and institutes in California, which will each focus on... |
| Jan 13, 2021 | How Australia’s Big Things helped shape our tourism industry, and our culture | The Big Banana in Coffs Harbour, NSW, in 2006. Source: Flickr/sixty4coupe.
As many Australians enjoy (relatively) COVID-normal summer holidays, many of us may be heading off on road trips, family breaks or beach holidays to take in the much... |
| 2021 | Color TV Debuted At The 1954 Rose Parade, Thanks To RCA, NBC And Woolworth | An aerial view of a Tournament of Roses parade from the 1950s traveling through downtown Pasadena, ... [+] California.TOR |
| Nov 30, 2020 | Planes, Trains And Trump’s Stage (And Staged) Exit | |
| Oct 10, 2020 | Many Retailers, From Belk To Home Depot, Retire The Annual Columbus Day Sale | The former Davison's/Macy's store in downtown Atlanta, Georgia featured sale signage during a fall ... [+] 1998 event. The store closed in 2003.Michael Lisicky |
| Aug 6, 2020 | U. of Arizona Bought a For-Profit U. for $1? Actually, the For-Profit Paid Millions to Be Acquired. | The University of Arizona announced this week that it plans to buy the for-profit Ashford University for $1. Well, it’s sort of a sale. Except that Ashford’s parent company will end up paying millions to Arizona to make it happen, leading N... |
| Aug 2, 2020 | The history of the narwhal, the 'unicorn of the sea' that scientists still barely understand | Narwhal.
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Narwhals are a type of whale with a tooth that grows out of their jaws to resemble a horn.
The tusks can grow up to 3 metres long and have given narwhals the reputation for being the "unicorn of the sea.&qu... |
| Feb 22, 2020 | Как неудачная реклама разрушила 80-летнюю компанию: история производителя пылесосов Hoover Статьи редакции | Hoover прошла путь от первого пылесоса из вентилятора и наволочки до коллабораций с дизайнером самолётов, провальной рекламной кампании с судебными исками и продажи в Китай.
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| Feb 21, 2020 | The Famous Iwo Jima Flag-Raising Photo Captured an Authentic Moment—But Gave Many Americans a False Impression | This Sunday marks the 75th anniversary of what is arguably the most famous news photo of all time. The shot of U.S. Marines raising an American flag on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima, captured by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal... |
| Jan 15, 2020 | The Irrelevance of Imminence | The prevailing analysis of the legality of Qassem Soleimani’s assassination, focusing as it has on whether an Iranian attack was “imminent” under Article 51 of the U.N. Charter, seems to me to be misframed. Long before ratification of the c... |
| May 12, 2019 | 13 times the heirs to massive fortunes disappeared under mysterious or disturbing circumstances | The harrowing 1973 abduction of John Paul Getty III has inspired numerous films and books.
Vittoriano Rastelli / Contributor / Getty Images
Kidnappers looking for a major payout will often target the heirs of wealthy individuals.
Some famou... |
| Jan 25, 2019 | A Mob Associate, Who Survived Many Previous Shootings, Killed in Montreal | Montreal’s first murder of the year was that of infamous real estate developer Tony Magi, who had deep ties to the city’s underworld.
Magi, in his late fifties, was reportedly shot “at least once in the head” Thursday morning in the city’s ... |
| Oct 15, 2018 | Sears through the years: The rise and fall of a retail giant | UPDATES:
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| Jul 12, 2018 | Billion-dollar products that are complete rip-offs | Originally Published by:
Every time you eat a Big Mac or play with Lego, you’re supporting theft.
In fact, many of the world’s best known and most financially successful products were actually copied from earlier competitors, who have mostl... |
| Jan 20, 2018 | The Tale of the Free-Net, the Cheap Way Dial-Up Users Got Online | A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium , a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail.
The internet has not exactly lived its best life in the past twelve months.
Between the tribalism and the stress of on... |
| Dec 10, 2017 | Congressional Republicans’ tax-cut reforms will end up slashing Hawaii GOP further | ASSOCIATED PRESS
“For Trump… his tax bill has created an economic landscape so poisonous that, if passed into law, will create deficits so deep that Congress will be forced for decades to make cuts to balance the budget,” writes Richard Bor... |
| Dec 3, 2017 | Kamehameha therapist accused of abuse was respected member of society | STAR-ADVERTISER / 1967
Dr. Robert Browne is pictured in his Manoa home, which featured an extensive Oceanic art collection. Browne and his wife, Mieko, loaned parts of their collection to the then-Honolulu Academy of Arts for an exhibition.... |
| Oct 1, 2017 | New online archive spans 177 years of isle newspapers | Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story!
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An online archive of isle newspapers brings 177 years of history to life.
Thanks to a new partnership between the Honolulu Star-Advertiser and Newspapers... |
| Feb 22, 2017 | FTC cracks down on supplement maker that faked talk radio show | Federal and state officials in Maine said Wednesday they had shut down an elaborate scheme to deceptively market dietary supplements in which a company disguised 30-minute radio advertisements as a talk radio show and repeatedly promoted fa... |
| Jan 27, 2015 | The Racism and Incompetence Behind the Unsolved Firebombing of an NFL Legend's Church | During Super Bowl XXXI's Media Day in 1997, Green Bay Packers Defensive End Reggie White delivered a passionate speech about the state of race relations in the United States.
"I think we have a major problem in our country that we don'... |
| May 27, 2014 | Sex Cams at NASA & Library of Congress, Anti-Piracy Outfit Says | While many content creators believe that taking down pirate links will make their material harder to find, the value of this endless task is often questioned. As content spreads like a virus, links often reappear elsewhere as fast as they a... |
| «Брэнсон управляет танком, а Coca-Cola — армией»: в 90-х Virgin выпускала колу, провалилась, но запомнилась рекламой Статьи редакции | Владелец развозил газировку на танке, стрелял по баннеру Coca-Cola и продвигал однополые браки. Однако конкурировать с Pepsi и Coca-Cola не смог, вспоминает Tedium.
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| Fisherman’s Wharf tartar sauce a relic from decades-old newspaper files | DENNIS ODA / [email protected]
Leland Pang’s recipe request was more than 36 years in the making. He wrote to ask for the formula for tartar sauce as made at the old Fisherman’s Wharf restaurant.
Leland Pang’s recipe request was more ... |
| Rubik’s Cube is still selling millions after 50 years. Here’s how the analog Gen X phenom is solving the digital shift to Gen Z—and beyond | If you’ve ever dabbled with a Rubik’s Cube, you know it isn’t the easiest puzzle to crack. But despite the challenging nature of the game, it’s endured longer than most other toys of its generation—think Tamagotchis and Game Boys.
The Cube ... |
| This 26-year-old fled violence in Haiti as a child—now he makes $130,000 working for JPMorgan | This story is part of CNBC Make It's Millennial Money series, which details how people around the world earn, spend and save their money.
Nearly 20 years ago, most of Lenny Pyrrhus' immediate family fled Haiti after his uncle, a popular mus... |
| If Comcast decides to sell regional sports networks, these buyers make the most sense | NBCUniversal, the parent company of CNBC, is reportedly considering selling its regional sports networks, according to The Wall Street Journal.
If it does, potential buyers like private investment firms and sports owners could benefit. |
