Tag: history

The New Star Trek TV Show Has a Title and a Starship: Discovery

Behold the U.S.S. Discovery, designation NCC-1031. What’s really cool is that it’s based on concept art the legendary Ralph McQuarrie did for the first Trek motion picture. See it in action in the show’s first teaser! Read more…

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The New Star Trek TV Show Has a Title and a Starship: Discovery

What’s the Difference Between a $5000 Guitar and a $150 Guitar?

I think the moral of the story (to my peasant ears, at least) in comparing a $5000 Martin D-42 guitar vs a $150 Motion TD-107 guitar is that if you know how to play the guitar, you can make any damn thing with strings sound good. But if you have better ears for audio quality than me, listen to Paul Davids compare the two guitars and see if you can hear the difference in sound. And if you can, is it worth $4850? Read more…

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What’s the Difference Between a $5000 Guitar and a $150 Guitar?

This Milk Lasts Up to Nine Weeks Without Spoiling

Refrigerated pasteurized milk typically lasts about two to three weeks before turning into a wretched hive of scum and villainy. A new process developed by researchers at Purdue University extends the shelf life of milk up to 63 days—and without the benefit of added chemicals. Read more…

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This Old ‘Computer For Grannies’ Video Is My New Favorite Movie

Remember 2001? Neither do I. But as best I can tell, it was a raucous time for people to get on the ‘net (that’s what people called the internet in olden times). And if you were confused about where to start, there were plenty of VHS tapes available to help navigate this brave new world—like Computer For Grannies , a bizarre artifact that I recently stumbled across at my local library. Read more…

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Perfectly Synced Side-by-Side Video Compares 1940s Los Angeles to Today

Keven McAlester’s short film which compares Los Angeles’ Bunker Hill in the 1940s to today using perfectly synced footage is the closest thing we can get to experiencing legitimate time travel . Read more…

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We Can All Be Verified On Twitter Now

In theory, Twitter’s blue “verified” check mark made it harder to impersonate famous people, but in practice it mostly showed who was famous enough to bother impersonating. Prepare for the “verified” badge of approval to stop mattering nearly as much now that Twitter has opened up its once-mysterious verification process to everyone . Read more…

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Record-Setting Hard Drive Writes Information One Atom At a Time

Researchers working in the Netherlands have developed an atomic-scale rewritable data-storage device capable of packing 500 terabits onto a single square inch. Incredibly, that’s enough to store every book written by humans on a surface the size of a postage stamp. Holy shit . Read more…

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