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1984 Christmas wishlist?

#1980s #Sears #wishbook #Atari #D&D
December 14, 2025 at 5:29 AM
It’s not Christmastime until Darlene Love sings.

Christmas, Baby Please Come Home
December 10, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Liquor gift set season is upon us. #bourbon 🥃
December 9, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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REMINDER. Calling all hillfort folk and ex diggers from Maiden Castle excavation 1985 and 1986. There will be a small display and film from the excavations. Bring any stories, photos etc for archive gathering.
October 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Large Milkweed Bugs on #milkweed pod #native plants #NY #insects
October 5, 2025 at 1:48 PM
September 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
United Steelworkers Building (also known as the IBM Building, and several other names) in #Pittsburgh PA. Built in the early #1960s with a steel load-bearing exoskeleton, it’s listed on the National Register of Historic Pla... https://tcrex.net/2025/09/15/united-steelworkers-building-also-known.html
September 16, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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MAC (Mike Cumella), longtime host of WFMU's "Antique Phonograph Hour," was featured in this New York Times article on cereal-box records (gift link).
Cereal Box Records Sound Horrible. They Still Look Incredible. (Gift Article)
Decades ago, singles were printed on cereal boxes as cutout prizes. Now, a dedicated few are working to save these cardboard treasures from extinction.
www.nytimes.com
September 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
September 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Who writes these headlines? Shouldn’t it always be “Boffins Baffled by…”?
Betwixt being forever baffled and stunned

It's exhausting being an archaeologist
September 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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We asked visual search scientists, a metal-detecting enthusiast and a detective to share the most effective strategies to find missing objects.
How to find lost objects: 6 techniques that really work
We asked visual search scientists, a metal-detecting enthusiast and a detective to share the most effective strategies to find missing objects.
n.pr
September 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Passenger Pigeon bones from Minnesota, from Otter Tail County (ca. 1000 years old) and 19th century Fort Snelling, posted in memory of Martha, the last of her species who died on September 1, 1914.
September 2, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Cadwalader Park. #NJ #Olmsted
September 2, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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New book review:
Alberti on Brinkman, Paul D.: _Now Is the Time to Collect: Daniel Giraud Elliot, Carl Akeley, and the Field Museum African Expedition of 1896_. University of Alabama Press, 2024. Published by H-Sci-Med-Tech.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20121879
Brinkman, Paul D.. Now Is the Time to Collect: Daniel Giraud Elliot, Carl Akeley, and the Field Museum African Expedition of 1896. : University of Alabama Press, 2024. 358 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 9780817361488. Reviewed by Samuel J M M Alberti (National Museums Scotland/University of Stirling) Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (August, 2025) Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)
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August 6, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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I’ve Been Everywhere: Gerard Fowke (1855-1933): https://tcrex.net/2025/07/31/ive-been-everywhere-gerard-fowke.html
July 31, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Academics who have questioned the validity of efforts to “de-extinct” animals like the woolly mammoth and the dire wolf have complained of an apparent campaign to discredit them.
Critics of de-extinction research hit by mystery smear campaign
Several researchers who have been critical of Colossal Biosciences’ plans to revive extinct animals say they have been targeted by online articles trying to discredit them
www.newscientist.com
July 31, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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(Some of) the 80s hits brought back from the Continent: Holiday Package Pop
July 13, 2025 at 1:17 PM