Innovation is all about creating "the new", but if you hang around innovators long enough you begin to get the feeling that while lots of "new" things are being brought to market, innovators continue to use "old" approaches to do this! Recently, however, Arthur D. Little published a study on [...]
Whether you have a home office or squeeze your stuff into a cubicle, these handy tricks will make working a little less insufferable.
Photo taken in Victoria in 1898 by John Duncan Pierce, called ‘Civilisation in the bush’. Credit State Library Victoria. This chap looks pretty settled here and was probably not “on the wallaby”, which meant a person of no fixed address who wandered around looking for work during the Great Depression. During the 1800s through to the early 20th-century it was common practice for men to travel the Australian outback looking for work.
Ellun Kanat on muutostoimisto, jonka toimistotilat sijaitsevat Kalliossa. Muotoilija ja suunnittelija Hanna Anosen suunnittelemassa sisustuksessa teollisuusmaisen tilan vastapainoksi on tuotu pehmeitä ja leikkisiä elementtejä sekä kirkkaita värejä.
Suzanne Jongmans creates Renaissance-style portraits that have an unusual twist: look a little more closely and you'll notice that each of her costumes
Being a child of immigrant parents feels like being part of a club I never signed up for. I feel an unspoken kinship to other children of immigrants due to our shared experiences of aiding our parents as they navigate the culture and customs of a new country.
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers working in Italy has confirmed that Altamura Man was a Neanderthal and dating of pieces of calcite which were on the remains has revealed that the bones are 128,000 to 187,000 years old. In their paper published in the Journal of Human Evolution, the team describes how they extracted a small bone sample and examined it and what they found by doing so.
Have you got dysania? Perhaps it is because you are philogrobilized! So stop twattling about it and learn a few of these sweet olde-school words!
In order to garner sympathy - and funds - from rich white northerners, abolitionists used a propaganda campaign featuring four former child slaves with mixed-race ancestry and pale complexions.
Theodore de Bry copper engravings of J. de Léry Le Voyage au Brézil de Jean de Léry 1556-1558 (La Rochelle, 1578) Image IV: A Broth is Made From the Intestines The women make a thick soup from the...
We're sharing 14 British homes that added modern extensions to the existing structures, and have created striking juxtapositions of the old and the new.
For "Women's Work", Chris Crisman sought out women in occupations traditionally held by men and shot environmental portraits of them. The results are stunning. In February of 2016, Crisman was having lunch with a group of producers, when one of them mentioned a friend who was a butcher. That friend, Heather Marold Thomason, immediately intrigued Crisman, as he had never heard
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Discarded photographs from yesteryear are given new life in the photographic project ‘Single Image Processing’ by Japanese artist, Kensuke Koike. In the stacks of weathered old photographs, worn albums and bundles of vintage postcards so often found at flea markets, Koike finds inspiration for a different kind of photographic practice. Using a scalpel, Koike meticulously crafts […]
Hear Ye! Hear Ye, gather forth from whence ye came and consume this gathering of old timey words that no one uses like a floppy disk or a pay phone.
As a DIYer, I'm having a hard time not going crazy thinking that I could make this myself, especially after seeing the price tag. Nonetheless, it is an amazing piece. If your princess serves tea to teddy, and you can afford it, this would be pretty darn amazing to have.
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Have you got dysania? Perhaps it is because you are philogrobilized! So stop twattling about it and learn a few of these sweet olde-school words!
We can see where the passenger trains used to run. So why aren't the routes being used now? Curious Hobart investigates what happened to the trains and what might happen in the future.
Some slang terms and buzzwords spring out nowhere to fill a pressing cultural need to talk about a new thing, or to talk about an old thing in a new
Circa 1900, Americans wore gaudy costumes and bizarre masks, and some roved the streets begging for candy and treats — on Thanksgiving Day.
Delve into the vast and mesmerizing past.
From the living "mannequins" of the 1800s to the Insta-famous It girls of today.
Here are History Hustle's 20 awesome historical words we should bring back. If you love…
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Homo erectus, a predecessor of modern humans, used shells as food, tools and even engraved one with zigzag lines in ancient Java, Indonesia.
Vintage 1980s cordless phones were the essential step between wired pushbutton phones and today's modern cell phones. Here's a look back at the top telephone tech from the 80s!
From those bullshit seatbelt laws to Big Kindergarten trying to tell you which preschools you can and can't take your gun into, it seems like today's nanny nation is intent on making our lives as safe as possible at the expense of any and all excitement. That's not how it used to be, though.
With the new Ikea Canada sell-back program, the retailer will take gently used old Ikea furniture — and you'll be able to save by purchasing secondhand.
Stable rubber may have taken until the 19th century to reach the Old World, but ancient Mesoamericans had been playing ball with the stuff since 1,600 BC. And new research suggests not only were they the world's first polymer scientists, but they could also mix and match rubber compounds for different uses.
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The English language is a vast and expansive treasure of expression. And we know so little of it! I mean, have you ever wondered what the classiest way is to compliment an absolutely stunning behind, [...]
The end of the road is here for Rachel Veitch's beloved "Chariot."
Did you shag that numpty?
The English language is a vast and expansive treasure of expression. And we know so little of it! I mean, have you ever wondered what the classiest way is to compliment an absolutely stunning behind, [...]
