The Holocaust Story I Said I Wouldn’t Write by gmays

Magazine | This Is the Holocaust Story I Said I Wouldn’t Write https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/magazine/holocaust-story-education.html You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. I learned that Mr. Lindenblatt was dying when I was in London this past November on business.

ByHackTechApril 26, 20250Comments

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The ongoing story of seconds on the taskbar by sokols

Over a decade ago, I noted that early beta versions of the taskbar clock showed seconds, and sometimes even blinked the colon like some clocks do, but it was removed because the blinking colon and updating time were ruining Windows 95’s benchmark numbers due to the need to keep all of the code paths related

ByHackTechApril 24, 20250Comments

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The Hole Story: How Woodpeckers Make Homes for the Rest of the Forest by hn_acker

Woodpecker nest holes are valuable pieces of real estate that may be used by hundreds of other species over many years. Researchers are using the concept of “nest webs” to understand how this valuable resource passes from one owner to the next. From the Spring 2025 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now. When night falls in the forest, most

ByHackTechMarch 28, 20250Comments

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The Deep Story Beneath the Big Lie by dredmorbius

ONE WEEK after January 6, 2021, a scraggly-haired young conservative we’ll call Kyle (not his real name), a science major at a Pennsylvania university and an employee at a factory, logged on to a Zoom interview and took a strong stand on the events at the Capitol. “The first thing that I always start with

ByHackTechOctober 1, 20230Comments

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The True Story of Central Park’s Doomed Victorian Dinosaur Museum by scapecast

There are dinosaurs buried beneath New York City’s Central Park. Now these aren’t your typical T. rex or Triceratops left behind in layers of sediment. These dinosaurs aren’t millions of years old and never took a gulp of air. They’re dapper Victorians, made of cement, wire, stone, and clay. They were entertainers and educators, meant

ByHackTechAugust 6, 20230Comments

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The Story of Titanium by LastNevadan

The earth contains a lot of titanium – it’s the ninth most abundant element in the earth’s crust. By mass, there’s more titanium in the earth’s crust than carbon by a factor of nearly 30, and more titanium than copper by a factor of nearly 100.But despite its abundance, it’s only recently that civilization has

ByHackTechJuly 9, 20230Comments

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To respond to this story, get the free Medium app by riogordo2go

Why are companies pushing so hard for apps while the website is often better. Is it to push advertisement? Extract more information? It's a disturbing trend if you ask me.

ByHackTechApril 25, 20230Comments

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Day in the Life: Story of a Tech Writer by taubek

I’ve been wanting to write about this for a while and I finally plucked the courage to write a short post about: A day in the life of a Technical writer. Inspired by a desire to have a ready explanation for every Christmas dinner with the family, when I get asked the question: “What exactly

ByHackTechFebruary 19, 20230Comments

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The Story Construction Tells About America’s Economy by walterbell

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ByHackTechFebruary 6, 20230Comments

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The curious story of Hitler, the fake Leica and the Russian camera forgers by giuliomagnifico

Home News Is it a military Leica? Is it even a Leica at all? No, it’s a Russian Zorki 1B which is, however, a copy of the Leica II. It’s not a bad copy either, except that all the Wehrmacht Leicas from the WWII period were model IIIs. (Image credit: Paul Burrows/Australian Camera Magazine) If

ByHackTechJanuary 25, 20230Comments

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