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An Apple employee poses with a personal computer in 1986. (Corbis Historical / Getty) Americans began the 20th century in bustles and bowler hats and ended it in velour sweatsuits and flannel shirts—the most radical shift in dress standards in human history. At the center of this sartorial revolution was business casual, a genre of dress that broke the last bastion of formality—office attire—to re
Showering Has a Dark, Violent History
The design for a psychiatric-hospital shower from the Belgian physician Joseph Guislain (Guislain / Internet Archive) The 19th century was a time of great innovation in plumbing. Cities got the first modern sewers, with tunnels that snaked for miles underground. Houses got bathrooms, with ceramic toilets, tubs, and sinks that you would easily recognize today. And, not to be left behind in this per
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He Jiankui attends the International Summit on Human Genome Editing at the University of Hong Kong. (Reuters) Updated on December 4 at 10:55 a.m. ET. Before last week, few people had heard the name He Jiankui. But on November 25, the young Chinese researcher became the center of a global firestorm when it emerged that he had allegedly made the first CRISPR-edited babies, twin girls named Lulu and
How the Ballpoint Pen Killed Cursive
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The Day of Fate
Kristallnacht, on its 80th anniversary, still offers a potent lesson: We all face the choice between right and wrong, responsibility and recklessness, conscience and complicity. At an evening news conference on November 9, 1989, a spokesman for the East German Communist government made a history-altering mistake. The spokesman had been authorized to say that travel restrictions on East German citi
The Problem Behind a Viral Video of a Persistent Baby Bear
Two brown bears at a zoo in Hamburg, Germany (Fabian Bimmer / Reuters) For many people, a two-and-a-half-minute video of a baby brown bear trying to scale a snow-covered mountain was a life-affirming testament to the power of persistence. As it begins, the cub is standing with its mother on the side of a perilously steep ridge. The mother begins walking across, and despite slipping a few times on
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