AAA Minds | history

2018

Brian Kernighan Remembers the Origins of ‘grep’

Aug 7

Birds had to relearn flight after meteor wiped out dinosaurs

May 25

Ancient Rome’s Collapse Is Written into Arctic Ice

May 23

The popular creation story of astronomy is wrong

May 21

Inside the Plan to Print All of Wikipedia and Send It to the Moon

May 15

Treadmills Were Meant to Be Atonement Machines

May 8

Artificial Intelligence Opens the Vatican Secret Archives

May 3

Civilization Is Built on Code

May 1

Archaeologists investigate what life was like after dark in the ancient world

Apr 30

Are we sure there wasn’t a coal-burning species 55 million years ago?

Apr 23

A New Study Suggests There Could Have Been Intelligent Life on Earth Before Humans

Apr 17

Soviet-Era Industrial Design

Apr 15

Was there a civilization on Earth before humans?

Apr 15

Sweet Potato DNA Challenges Theory That Polynesians Beat Columbus to America

Apr 15

The Art of Soldering

Apr 14

Iron Age study targets British DNA mystery

Apr 12

How Famine Under the Nazis Revealed the Cause of Celiac Disease

Apr 9

Ancient Roman Bathrooms – What Did They Do Without Toilet Paper?

Apr 4

The richest American family hired terrorists to shoot sleeping families

Apr 4

In to Asia

Mar 31

13,000-year-old human footprints discovered in British Columbia

Mar 31

Network of fortified towns indicates Amazon was once heavily populated

Mar 31

These Geometric Shapes Were Made By a Previously Unknown Civilization

Mar 29

A giant aircraft carrier built from ice

Mar 25

Five new ancient genomes tell us about Neanderthal tribes

Mar 23

Anti-anti-communism

Mar 22

These early humans survived a supervolcano eruption 74,000 years ago

Mar 21

The shape of life

Mar 16

Ancient DNA Is Rewriting Human and Neanderthal History

Mar 16

How Leo and Gertrude Stein Revolutionized the Art World

Mar 15

Digitising books as objects: The invisible made visible

Mar 14

A Look Back at the 1960s PLATO Computing System

Mar 13

World War II carrier “Lady Lex” found 2 miles under sea by Allen expedition

Mar 7

Did plants cause one of Earth’s great extinctions?

Mar 7

New study tracks the evolution of stone tools

Mar 7

The virus hunter: In a bygone era, C.J. Peters learned how to bend the rules

Mar 6

Exploring the Linguistics Behind Regular Expressions

Mar 5

The Birth of A.I.

Mar 3

DNA Sheds Light On Settlement of Pacific

Mar 3

Giant human family tree traces how people moved and married over 300 years

Mar 2