Jencyclopedia

December 26, 2021, 10:03 pm

Sequencing DNA in Our Extra BedroomAt this point, I should mention that I’m not a biologist and I’m certainly not qualified to join a community of researchers.

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December 11, 2021, 11:06 am

Monkees’ Manager on Michael Nesmith’s Final Months: ‘He Died Knowing They Were Beloved — He Finally Got It’Andrew Sandoval talks about how the drive to go out and say thank you to the fans on one last tour revivified Nesmith this fall.

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• The Monkees

December 11, 2021, 11:06 am

Micky Dolenz Remembers Michael Nesmith: ‘He Was Our Leader the Whole Time’“You could never, never have talked him out of the farewell tour,” says Dolenz of his 55-year Monkees bandmate. “He was absolutely determined to finish that tour”

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• The Monkees

November 21, 2021, 9:13 pm

Inverted JennyThe Inverted Jenny is a 24 cent United States postage stamp in which the image of the airplane in the center of the design is printed upside-down.

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November 21, 2021, 4:51 pm

Only '90s Web Developers Remember This    

Now I want little silver lapel pins that say “best viewed with Internet Explorer” and

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• Programming

October 31, 2021, 11:42 am

Mechanical TurkThe Turk was a fake chess-playing machine constructed in the late 18th century.

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October 31, 2021, 10:55 am

Hope Juber: Meeting George HarrisonI had always wanted to meet George Harrison. Throughout my entire adult life, if you asked me who was the one person I would most want to meet it would have to be George Harrison.

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• The Beatles

October 30, 2021, 10:16 pm

Taking apart the 2010 Fisher Price re-released Music Box Record Player

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October 29, 2021, 10:01 pm

AstronautThese videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost zero previous views.

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October 17, 2021, 10:43 am

Alkemstone: All the CluesAlkemstone was a game released in 1981 with a $5000 prize attached where the titular “Alkemstone” was hidden somewhere in the real world, and the clues on where to find it were hidden inside the game.

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