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The Folly of Academic Self-Help
A cousin of Christian Science and the progenitor of the self-help industry’s more-secularized “positive thinking” gospel, ...
Minnesota shop owner is a real jukebox hero: ‘My whole world is the physical media’
Dan Coulter looks inside a jukebox from the 1940s in the backroom of his store, Vintage Gameroom, in Newport. (Leila ...
How Valentine’s Day was transformed by the Industrial Revolution and ‘manufactured intimacy’
“Cupid and Co.” was most likely the firm of Joseph Mansell, a lace-paper and stationary company that manufactured large numbers of valentines between the 1840s and 1860s – and also just happened to ...
El Mundo on MSN11h
The fascinating life of Eadweard Muybridge, pioneer of photography, father of cinema... and murderer: "There is still a bit of him in our phones"
Canadian Guy Delisle, author of 'Pyongyang' or 'Jerusalem Chronicles', now travels to the Wild West to portray the real story of the man who discovered motion photography: "The iconic scene from The ...
The camera has become more dangerous than the gun
There was a time when the gun symbolized power, fear, and control. Its invention revolutionized warfare, shifted empires, and ...