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How Julian Simon and Dionysius Lardner Proved the Doomsday Alarmists Wrong
Foundation for Economic Education
Eager to demonstrate the value of an historical perspective as to why, in a functioning market economy, people are unlikely to ever run out...
80 months ago
Creating Babbage's dream machine: How we built the Difference Engine
New Scientist
Popular myth has it that 19th-century technology was too crude to enable Babbage to complete his Difference Engines. But working to his specifications,...
65 months ago
30 Future Predictions That Were Goofily Off Base
Cracked.com
Some of the following predictions people have made about technology and culture are so hilariously off-base that you can't help but point and laugh.
15 months ago
Today in women’s history: Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” published
People's World
Today in women's history in 1818, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is published. The book, by 21-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley...
140 months ago
26 Predictions About The Future (That Were Really Inaccurate)
Cracked.com
In 1949 experts predicted women will be more than six feet tall, wear a size 11 shoe, have shoulders like a wrestler and muscles like a truck drive.
130 months ago
15 Impossibly Silly Predictions (Made By Serious People)
Cracked.com
Many future predictions have been made throughout history by many people, some of which have proven to be eerily accurate.
47 months ago
Victorian Bloomsbury by Rosemary Ashton – review
The Guardian
Kathryn Hughes enjoys an absorbing history of life in 19th-century London.
143 months ago
When experts get it wrong
PressReader.com
From knocking back The Beatles to dismissing TV as a fad, experts fail to live up to their name on occasion...
70 months ago
VOTE NOW: The Seven Wonders of the Railway
Rail Magazine
THE NOMINATIONS IN FULL: Barmouth Bridge. This under-publicised wooden viaduct – one of the longest on the network – symbolises survival...
73 months ago
The Story Behind a Pub Called The Confession Box
Dublin Town
The Confession Box pub resides snuggly at 88 Marlborough Street on the ground floor of a fine old Georgian building at the side of the old...
78 months ago