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44 secrets you never knew about the Titanic, which sank 112 years ago

Fri, 04/12/2024 - 08:52

the titanic — The Titanic.
Roger Viollet/Getty Images

News, Transportation, Features, titanic, History, fun-facts, Disasters

The most popular tech gadget from the year you were born

Wed, 04/10/2024 - 14:15

Tech Insider : Technology

Steve Jobs holding the first generation iPhone in 2007. — Steve Jobs holding the first generation iPhone in 2007.
Jon Furniss/Wireimage

Tech, Technology, History, gadgets, Tech, Vintage, vhs

How the White House Easter Egg Roll became one of the oldest American traditions

Mon, 04/01/2024 - 13:07

Tech Insider : Politics

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden at the 2022 White House Easter Egg Roll — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden attend the Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House in 2022.
Drew Angerer/Getty Images

politics, Features, white-house, History, easter-egg-roll, easter-bunny, politics-slideshow

Vintage photos show how the role of women in the workforce has evolved in the last 100 years

Mon, 03/11/2024 - 13:38

woman computer 1970 — A woman works at an early model desktop computer made by Servus, circa the 1970s.
Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Strategy, Features, women-and-money, History, vintage-photos, Vintage, women-in-the-workplace

'Oppenheimer' fact v. fiction: What the movie got right and wrong according to a nuclear historian

Fri, 03/08/2024 - 16:34

J. Robert Oppenheimer in the classroom. — J. Robert Oppenheimer in the classroom.
Bettmann/Getty Images

Science, Oppenheimer, j-robert-oppenheimer, christopher-nolan, manhattan-project, nuclear-weapons, atom-bomb

20 things you didn't know were invented by women

Fri, 03/08/2024 - 14:30

toll house cookies 2 — Ruth Wakefield invented the first chocolate-chip cookie as a result of a baking mistake.
digitalreflections/Shutterstock

culture, Tech, inventions, Women, History, Innovation, international-womens-day

17 presidents who grew up in surprisingly humble homes

Sun, 02/18/2024 - 07:08

Tech Insider : Politics

Jimmy Carter's childhood home in Plains, Georgia. — Jimmy Carter's childhood home in Plains, Georgia.
Shutterstock; AP/Mark Humphrey

politics, Real Estate, Features, Presidents, Homes, History

31 Nobel Prize winners had ties to the Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer isn't on the list.

Fri, 02/16/2024 - 15:23

Nobel Prize winners Ernest Lawrence Enrico Fermi, and Isidor Isaac Rabi stand together talking in the late 1930s — Ernest Lawrence, Enrico Fermi, and Isidor Rabi all won the Nobel Prize and contributed to the Manhattan Project.
Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Science, manhattan-project, nobel-prize, nobel-peace-prize, atomic-bomb, Oppenheimer, j-robert-oppenheimer

Human bones unearthed from a German cave have altered the timeline of ancient human history

Mon, 02/12/2024 - 13:27

Ancient human bone fragment against a black background with 1 cm ruler for scale — Researchers extracted ancient human bone fragments from the Ilsenhöhle cave in Ranis, Germany.
Tim Schüler / TLDA

Science, Archaeology, homo-sapiens, Neanderthals, ancient-artifacts, bones, Research

2 ocean-tech companies are competing in a multimillion-dollar race to find Amelia Earhart's wreckage. One says it may be near the finish line.

Tue, 02/06/2024 - 18:18

Amelia Earhart — Amelia Earhart stands June 14, 1928, in front of her biplane called 'Friendship' in Newfoundland.
Getty Images

Transportation, News, Science, insider-news, amelia-earhart, Aviation, History

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