Do People Really Change? Time Travel, History, Human Nature
A Byrds lyric, Charlie Chaplin, and Rudolph Valentino inspire a reflection on time travel, celebrity culture, and why human nature changes far less than technology.
Tag: history
The Origin of Good Grief and Charlie Brown’s Famous Phrase
Good Grief became Charlie Brown's signature saying, but its history began decades earlier. Learn the surprising origin of the famous Peanuts phrase.
<em>Shift Happens</em> tells the story of keyboards
Shift Happens tells the story of keyboards like no book ever before, covering 150 years from the early typewriters to the pixellated keyboards in our pockets.
Historic Hashtags
I just find that people overuse hashtags for everything. When hashtags jump to real life it becomes a problem. #getalife
Froot Loops Are All the Same Flavor
Well there goes another childhood myth down the toilet. Froot Loops "flavors" taste all the same. It's all food coloring. You have deceived me for the last time
Happy Veterans Day
Shirtless anti-war protester Frank C. Plada will later die in Vietnam, Happy Veterans Day. Politicians hide themselves away They only started the war Why should they go out
North American English Dialects, Based on Pronunciation Patterns
When you need subtitles on shows where English is the first language of the person in North America, you have to conclude that there are may many dialects
‘Dear Friend’ Letter to Adolf Hitler From Gandhi
Gandhi sends Hitler a letter. A case of forced pen-pals. Hitler never responded back.
Library Card Signed by 13-Year-Old Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley's earliest signature can be traced to 1948 when he checked out, The Courageous Heart: A Life of Andrew Jackson for Young Readers, from his local library.
2013: The Year of the Snake
This is my year. The year of the snake.Ride the snake, ride the snakeTo the lake, the ancient lake, babyThe snake is long, seven milesRide the snake...he's old,
#lastprintissue
It's the end of the world as we know it. Newsweek goes digital. In all the eighty years Newsweek was published, I never bought a single issue. #lasprintissue
There’s an End
Yes there's an end, but not this time around. This tiny fragile orb we call earth still spins around the sun. We made it.