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The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race.

Oh come on, you can tell us really.

Searching for ET, But No Evidence Yet | The White House

Source: wwws.whitehouse.gov

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How to Internet

Useful guide to getting more out of the web.

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Hubble Movies

Decades turned into seconds.

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Prints from 1910 showing life in the year 2000

The flying policeman looks like an early Batman.

  • 5 months ago
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They write the right stuff

Developing the incredibly reliable software used in the Space Shuttle.

  • 5 months ago
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The Internet in 1995 on MTV News.

“Are you jacked into the Internet?”

Source: youtube.com

  • 6 months ago
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Facebook and the Epiphanator: an end to endings?

Social media has no understanding of anything aside from the connections between individuals and the ceaseless flow of time: No beginnings, and no endings. These disparate threads of human existence alternately fascinate and horrify that part of the media world that grew up on topic sentences and strong conclusions. This world of old media is like a giant steampunk machine that organizes time into stories. I call it the Epiphanator, and it has always known the value of a meaningful conclusion.

  • 6 months ago
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If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault

I wish news sites would just close their comment sections so I didn’t feel compelled to look at them.

  • 6 months ago
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The scheme behind the ‘weird old tip’ ads

Unsurprisingly dodgy but exasperatingly successful.

  • 6 months ago
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Joe's first computer encounter

It’s easy to forget how weird this all is.

  • 6 months ago
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I edit science words for a very large dictionary in Oxford. I currently live in Reading.

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