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Today in History : Uncontacted Tribes

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Posted: February 2nd, 2011
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Today in History : 1950

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Hard disk drives sure have come a long way, baby.

In the 1950s, storage hardware was measured in feet — and in tons. Back then, the era’s state-of-the-art computer drive was found in IBM’s RAMAC 305; it consisted of two refrigerator-size boxes that weighed about a ton each. One box held 40 24-inch dual-sided magnetic disk platters; a carriage with two recording heads suspended by compressed air moved up and down the stack to access the disks. The other cabinet contained the data processing unit, the magnetic process drum, magnetic core register and electronic logical and arithmetic circuits.

Today, we have flash drives, microdrives, and onboard solid-state drives that weigh almost nothing, hold gigabytes of data and cost — compared to the 1950s — very little. How cheap is storage now? A 1TB hard drive that sells for as little as $60 today would have been worth $1 trillion in the 1950s, when computer storage cost $1 per byte, according to Dag Spicer, senior curator of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. via

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Posted: December 30th, 2010
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Today in History: Year 1010

When Christopher Columbus paraded his newly discovered American Indians through the streets of Spanish towns at the end of the 15th century, he was not in fact introducing the first native Americans to Europe, according to new research.

Scientists who have studied the genetic past of an Icelandic family now claim the first Americans reached Europe a full five centuries before Columbus bumped into an island in the Bahamas during his first voyage of discovery in 1492.

Researchers said today that a woman from the Americas probably arrived inAIceland 1,000 years ago, leaving behind genes that are reflected in about 80 Icelanders today.

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Posted: December 11th, 2010
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Today in History : Where’s Our Future?

I was born in 1979, when the world still was quite a simple place. "They" hated "us", we hated them, theAozone layer had no holes and we were only 21 years away from flying cars and all the other major technological advances the year 2000 promised. I was a bit too young to be aware of theAsecond Cold War, butA1986 was quite a good reminder that nuclear holocaust - even though I had only the vaguest notion of what that really means - is maybe not all that desirable. Luckily enough theABerlin Wall came down in 1989 and for a brief moment it felt like we are only a few short years away from universal peace (and flying cars).

The 1990s saw - amongst others - aAGulf War, two wars inAChechnya, theABalkan Wars and the one inAKosovo. Add theRwandan genocide, theATaliban takeover of Afghanistan, theASomali civil war and the new nuclear arms race betweenAIndia and Pakistan, and suddenly world peace didn't seem all that likely anymore. Personally the bliss of teenage ignorance saved me from worrying too much about what was going on, so not even the lack of significant advances re flying cars didn't seem to bother me, mostly because the 1990s already had given us one of the greatest human inventions of all times, theWorld Wide Web. The world was becoming smaller every day and suddenly you could interact with people from all over the planet, chat, play, laugh and cry together. Surely this would facilitate mutual understanding.

Fast-forward to the year 2010:A9/11 led to the wars inAAfghanistan andAIraq, religious fundamentalistsAare able to change school curricula and civil liberties get cut down left and right as a result of the "war on terror". I can't talk for anyone else here, but for me that's a rather sad and crazy state of affairs. Sure, we have made enormous technological advances, and when you look at things like life expectancy andAGDP,Athe world is in a better shape than it ever was. But when I look around me, what I see is not what I imagined the world of 2010 to be like when I was a kid. What I do see is an absurd mix ofA1984 andABrave New World, where the largest communist country has toAsave capitalism, the "Fortress Europe" is becoming a reality and governments are working against their citizens instead of for them: torture isAen vogue again,censorship is portrayed as a necessary evil to combat child pornography and terrorism, students have toAfight for proper education and downloading a movie can get you aAjail sentence. We also have an "us" vs "them" situation again, just this time it's mostly based on religion. And whenever there is the promise of paradise, life down here seems to turn into hell. I'd rather have the cold war back, because in retrospect people who fight over ideology seem a lot less likely to blow the whole place to smithereens than the ones who fight over religion.

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Posted: December 5th, 2010
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Today in History : The 600 Years

Mapping during 600 years anniversary of the astrological tower clock situated at Old Town Square in center of Prague.

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Posted: October 16th, 2010
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Today in History 2009

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Posted: July 23rd, 2010
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Shift Magazine Calendar Competition

TheAShift Calendar Competition started in 2003 with an aim to discover fresh creators. Enter the 8th competition for Shift, a Japanese-based online mag.

It pushes the boundaries between online and off line using a "calendar" as its medium. Entries are invited from all over the world and selected works will be distributed throughout the world in the format of a physical calendar.

The deadline for this competition is on August 20th, 2010.

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Posted: July 3rd, 2010
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National Civil Discourse Day

MNP will be celebrating this September! (help Preemptive Karma by spreading the word about this day!)

The goal of National Civil Discourse Day is for everyone in all forms of media, from Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow on the Left to Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck on the Right on down to the most anonymous members of the politicosphere, to commit to a day of respectful and substantive discourse.

Hopefully, the NCDD will raise awareness and show people that America will be better and stronger if we can have respectful debate about our differences in ways that foster consensus (even if that means just agreeing to disagree) and produce beneficial solutions.

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Posted: June 28th, 2010
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Iceland, Eyjafjallajokull 2010

Iceland, Eyjafjallajokull - May 1st and 2nd, 2010 from Sean Stiegemeier on Vimeo.

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Posted: May 12th, 2010
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