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With the rise of Web3isGoingGreat.com chronicling the inevitable chaos of the early days of a new permissionless computer network - it is worth…
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2022 So Far...
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The Canadian trucker protests and the increasingly aggressive tactics used by the Canadian government to quell them feel unprecedented. Those on the…
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The Boston Globe, 16 Mar 1884, Sun β€’ Page 1
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Slanguage: Slang as Technological ProgressLanguage is technology and like all technologies it evolves over time. These literary evolutions tend to receive scorn from older generations as…
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😷 Masked Smile (Article Reading) In the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic San Francisco quickly instituted a mask mandate, when it was repealed there was a…
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch St. Louis, Missouri 27 Feb 1938, Sun β€’ Page 47
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Halloween Special!
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Did the rise of 19th century technologies - such as radio - lead to an increase in reports of the supernatural? That’s the question Atlantic writer…
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The US government has its hands full. Taxes. War. Infrastructure. Impeachments. Pandemics. Nevertheless, no matter the challanges facing the country…
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✈️ Plane Stupid (1928) In 1928 a writer for The New York Times compared airplane skepticism to similar reactions regarding horseless carriages and the…
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