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How A Total Accident Saved The French Wine Industry
Amy Harmon’s excellent, recent article in the New York Times describes how the Florida orange juice industry may soon be wiped-out because of a new bacterial disease spread by an introduced insect. It looks like there could be a technology-fix for the problem using genetic engineering. The question is whether the growers will get to…
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A Love Letter To My First Four Phones
Last month was spent in a state of upheaval. After seven years in New York I was heading back to the opposite coast, which had led me to go though of the hundreds of kilos of accumulated junk one accidentally collects in boxes over the years.
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This 100-Year-Old Infographic Maps The Entire American Civil War
Back in the 1930s, the infographic scene was already humming with crazy products like the Histomap and its 4000 years of visualised history. But the roots of infographics go back even further. This intense visual recollection of the Civil War dates back to the 1800s.
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Look At The Insane Number Button Layouts Our Telephones Could Have Had
The year was 1960, and phones were changing. It was the beginning of the end for rotary dialling, and buttons were the future. But engineers faced an important, looming question: what order do you put those buttons in?