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Since 2018, internal research teams at Facebook have been studying the effect on Instagram on mental
In the U.S., the PCR test is the gold standard for COVID testing. Common knowledge would have it tha
Recently, China restricted video game playing to just three hours a week for its young people: 8pm t
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Radio was originally a social medium, as early radio sets (each of which could transmit as well as r
The first mechanical clocks were made to summon monks to prayer. Ever since, timekeeping technology
At the dawn of the 20th century, chemists dreamed of extracting nitrogen from the air and turning it
The first ever computer program was written in 1843 by Ada Lovelace, a mathematician who hoped her f
In the 19th century, young people wooed each other over the telegraph. But meeting strangers on the
Polar exploration was the Victorian equivalent of the space race. Major powers vied to outdo each ot
The potato seemed strange and unappetizing when it first arrived in Europe. But it grew into a wonde
In the early 20th century a new forensic technique—fingerprinting—displaced a cruder form of identif
For thousands of years we sailed our cargo across oceans using zero-emission, 100 percent renewable
The 19th century invention of the phonograph left composers worried they might not be paid for recor
What can 19th century polar exploration teach us as humans plan missions to Mars? Do modern online d
The Renaissance scholars couldn’t keep up with new information (“Have you read the latest Erasmus bo
Some people thought the laying of the transatlantic cable might bring world peace, because connectin
