National Museums Liverpool details all the layers 18th century upper class British women were expected to wear each day. The best part? Secret, removable pockets!
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5:37 am Mon
Jun 19, 2017
18th century women wore secret, removable pockets
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Check out this amazing collection of playable spoken word LPs
[Update 1-19-19: a Research Buzz commented that the site has malware. Caution is advised.] Here’s an incredible collection of digitized historical LPs you can listen to online. A lot of them remind me of podcast episodes, like this record about “big-lie-technique” master Senator Joseph R.McCarthy. This is a browser’s treat.
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Watch this marvelous animation that summarizes humanity in five minutes
Director Fabio Friedli animated 3,000 images to tell the story of humanity “from a seed to war, from meat to love, from indifference to apocalypse.” “It is such an excessive amount of things, shown in such a short time, you are never able to perceive everything,” Friedli told Vimeo. “I like to believe it’s one’s […]
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Medieval book opens six ways, revealing six different texts
A XVIth Century book held in the National Library of Sweden's collection features a "sixfold dos-a-dos binding," meaning that the book could be opened in six different ways to reveal six different texts ("devotional texts printed in Germany during the 1550s and 1570s,including Martin Luther, Der kleine Catechismus"), with the hinges doubling as latches.
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This case turns your iPhone into a point-and-shoot camera
These days, there isn’t much our iPhone camera can’t do – except feel like an actual phone. Despite years of steadily increasing resolution and image sensing technology, we’re still taking shots awkwardly with two hands, fumbling for the shutter button. Leave it to an avid photographer to design Shuttercase, a versatile iPhone case that solves […]
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Hit those fitness goals at home with these virtual trainers
Still determined to keep those New Year’s health resolutions? If you’re going to stick with the exercise plan, it’s enough of a challenge to budget your time. No need for your financial budget to take a hit, too. Here’s a more convenient – and cheaper – alternative to a gym membership or Peloton bike: Two […]
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Learn web design and development from all the angles with this bundle
Want a career in web design? It’s true that these days, most anyone can throw up a page or two. But for true workhorse web design, you’ll sometimes need to match the platform to the project. Enter the Complete Front-End Developer Bundle, an educational grand tour around the best tools for the web. For beginners, […]
