The useful questions are all about you rather than about anywhere in particular, which is why they work regardless of where you end up going. Here are fifteen.
1. What…
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The American workplace of 1985 looked and sounded completely different from today's. It clattered with typewriters, hummed with fax machines, and ran on paper, lots of paper. Tasks…
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The 1960s and '70s were a golden age of the dance craze, when a new step could sweep the nation and turn up at every party, wedding, and school…
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For a child growing up in the 1970s, the bedroom was a personal kingdom, and it came furnished with a very particular set of objects that nearly every kid…
Animal navigation combines several systems at once, which is why removing one rarely stops an animal entirely. Here are seventeen of the tools involved.
1. Reading the Earth's Magnetic Field…
There is a piece of safety engineering visible on essentially every commercial ship afloat, and almost nobody who sees it knows what it is.
Midships on both sides of the…