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The surprising — and deadly — history of wallpaper
CNN via Yahoo News· 3 months agoThe human predilection for living alongside patterns can be traced back to our ancestors who marked the walls of their caves with dots, lines, zigzags...
The long and gruesome history of people trying to live forever
Washington Post via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Renaissance philosopher Montaigne quipped that "death has us by the scruff of the neck at every...
Senate committee presses Meta over data access by developers in 'high risk' countries, per 2018 app...
TechCrunch· 1 year agoFacebook's murky history of letting third party apps help themselves to user data which you may...
'The protest of our generation': China's first-time demonstrators try to find a voice
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFirst-time protesters in China grapple with how much agency they can wrest from an authoritarian...
History weighs like a nightmare on the living if they are ignorant of basic facts
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 months agoWilliam Faulkner’s dictum that “the past is never dead – it’s not even past” has rarely been more...
Pictures of the week: Surfers Against Sewage protests, Rishi Sunak in Japan and a monkey quenching...
The Independent via Yahoo News· 11 months agoEach week the picture editors at The Independent sort through hundreds of thousands images sent into...
The West End’s controversial new musical – that’s already been shut down in China
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 months agoThe Mongol Khan is a lavish theatrical production intended to entice tourists to the beautiful,...
The best universities for computer science in 5 global regions
Stacker via AOL· 2 months agoPajor Pawel // Shutterstock The coveted computer science degree has promised graduates six-figure...
Read the last letters by George Mallory, who died exploring Mt. Everest in 1924
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 7 days agoSeveral letters from mountaineer and Everest explorer George Mallory are freely available to the...
TikTok had a 'list' of users who viewed LGBTQ posts — raising alarm as the company faces scrutiny...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 12 months agoTikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew leaves Congress on March 23, where he answered questions about how the...