Tag: Pocket

In April and May 1979, between 66 and 300 people died from anthrax in the Russian city of Sverdlovsk, now called Yekaterinburg. The Soviet authorities seized doctors’ records and quickly rolled out an explanation: the deaths were an accident caused by contaminated meat.

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Some days randomly remind you of the uniqueness of the place you call home. Yesterday was one of those days. I met Ryan Mather, who works for Sudowrite*, for coffee. He was in town for the Figma Design Conference. We chatted about writing, books, and how I use “AI” in my process.

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My dad bought CDs from a guy in the Dutch countryside that were loaded with bootleg software. It started with Paint Shop Pro, but I knew that all the legit designers on deviantart were using Photoshop. I re-trained myself to use it to make video game assets and weird digital art.

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Hello, Snackers. This started as a history of one product, but then I found something more interesting. If you’re new here (welcome!), Snack Stack is an award-winning newsletter about the cultural history of snacks and other foods.

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See why over a million readers pay to read the Financial Times.

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Annemarie Conte is an editor who writes the Ask Wirecutter column and trending-product reviews. She’d love to make you a friendship bracelet. It all started on a surreal summer day, when I was called in to see our editor-in-chief.

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In Cape Town on 2 January 2022, a mysterious fire broke out in South Africa’s parliament.

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The internet is disappearing, a new study has suggested, as web pages and online content is lost. While the web is often thought of as a place where content lasts forever. But vast swathes of its are being lost as pages are deleted or moved, according to new research.

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Those who don’t remember the web before platforms, tend to believe that for 10 years web users stared at their monitors in anticipation. Actually they were made to believe it. First by Web 2.

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