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Curiosities & Real-World Stories
Surprising, useful and well-documented stories from technology, science, history, nature and human behaviour.
- Oct 20, 2026 A 990-foot ocean liner that still holds the transatlantic speed record from her maiden voyage in 1952… By Brendan Brown
- Oct 20, 2026 A 228-year-old wooden warship still in active Navy commission sailed out of Boston this summer for… By Brendan Brown
- Oct 20, 2026 In 2010, the US Air Force stacked more than 1,700 PlayStation 3 consoles on wire shelves and wired them… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 19, 2026 On 3 December 1992 a 22-year-old Sema Group engineer typed "Merry Christmas" on a PC and sent it over… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 19, 2026 An 18-year-old in West Cork, Ireland mixed vegetable oil with magnetite powder to make a magnetic liquid… By Brendan Brown
- Oct 19, 2026 A steam locomotive built in Leeds in 1855 and shipped to India to haul mail trains was still pulling… By Brendan Brown
- Oct 19, 2026 A 2019 claim that Britain could cut 16,433 tonnes of carbon a year if everyone sent one fewer “thank… By Brendan Brown
- Oct 19, 2026 Galileo’s main antenna jammed on its way to Jupiter, leaving a small antenna that could manage about 10… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 13, 2026 A 14-year-old in Pennsylvania mounted a webcam outside her family’s Jeep and projected the feed onto the… By Brendan Brown
- Oct 13, 2026 A bell in an Oxford University physics lab has been ringing almost nonstop since 1840 on the same pair… By Brendan Brown
- Sep 24, 2026 Only about 60 ships in the world can fix a broken undersea cable By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Jul 23, 2026 Research suggests the feeling that time speeds up with age can be shaped by fewer temporal landmarks By Brendan Brown
- Jul 21, 2026 Psychology says the rarest mental strength today isn't resilience or grit By Brendan Brown
- Jul 21, 2026 Psychology says the loneliest people in life aren't the ones nobody likes By Brendan Brown
- Jul 20, 2026 Behavioral scientists found that people without children develop a relationship to mortality that is… By Brendan Brown
- Jun 8, 2026 When the SS Great Eastern laid the first working transatlantic telegraph cable in 1866, a message that… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Jun 8, 2026 Masahiro Hara and Denso engineers built the QR code in 1994 to help Toyota suppliers scan car parts from… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Jun 4, 2026 Every Apollo guidance computer that flew to the Moon had its software literally woven by hand at a… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- May 27, 2026 When Konrad Zuse switched on the Z3 in his Berlin workshop in May 1941, he had just built the first… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- May 26, 2026 In 1945, Ruth Bourne was one of the young Wrens operating more than 100 Bombe machines at Eastcote… By Make Tech Easier Editorial