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**It looked like a spaceship. And you didn't even need to plug it in to watch TV.**
In the early 1960s, Japan's Sharp introduced the TRP-801, a portable television that looked like something straight out of a science fiction movie.
With its striking red-and-cream body, built-in carrying handle, telescopic antennas, and unusual metal stand, it was a remarkable example of Space Age design.
But its most impressive feature was hidden inside.
The TRP-801 used transistor technology and featured a rechargeable battery, allowing people to watch television without being connected to a wall outlet. Despite its colorful exterior, the screen itself displayed only black-and-white images.
At a time when most televisions were bulky pieces of living-room furniture, the idea of carrying one around was remarkably futuristic.
More than six decades later, this little Japanese television still looks ahead of its time.
**Would you still want one of these in your home today?**
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I don't know if we talk about this enough. Colin Pennycuick's hypothetical bird ancestor from 1986...
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After seeing comparisons between Barack Obama and Donald Trump giving speeches over the weekend, here's another comparison about how they each talk.
#Obama #Trump #presidential
New polling shows the president underwater in 39 states and every major battleground one week before the midterm elections. newsweek.com/map-donald-trum…
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I never heard Obama call anyone fat, talk about penises or asses, lie about an election he lost, or threaten to punch a protester. I never watched him turn the presidency into a spectacle of insults & bizarre behavior.
God, I miss having a dignified president who made us proud.
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98% of the refugees admitted to the U.S. under Trump have been white South Africans.
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WILDWOOD director Travis Knight says LAIKA will never use generative AI in its films.
“AI is theft. It’s the ingestion of years and years and years of human creativity and ingenuity, regurgitated back. It has no humanity. It has no spirit.”
(Via: theplaylist.net/wildwood-tra…)
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Here we go
BREAKING: A hacker is attempting to breach the US Federal Election Commission's systems and that agency has had to 'temporarily shut down' its web-facing services as a result, according to an email seen by Reuters reut.rs/4imQyUu
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Reports indicate Putin wants NATO to return to 1997 borders and withdraw from the Baltics, Poland, and Finland among others.
He knows damn well NATO will never agree to this. That's not his goal. He wants Trump to agree to this in some manner to eliminate US Article 5 support.
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e is the unique number whose rate of change is itself.
Continuous compounding of 1 forever yields exactly e. The infinite series 1 + 1/1! + 1/2! + 1/3! + … converges to the same value, while the area under 1/x from 1 to e equals 1.
Its derivative equals its value at every point. In the complex plane it rotates the unit circle so that e^{iπ} + 1 = 0. Even the chance that a random shuffle leaves no item fixed approaches 1/e.
One constant, many faces.
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🎂 Happy 87th Birthday to John Cleese! 🎉 From razor-sharp wit to legendary comedy, the Monty Python icon has spent decades making the world laugh. Here’s to the man who proved that silly can be seriously brilliant! 🐍😂 👉 BirthdayBuddies.net 🎈
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Fun fact.
The Great Sphinx in Giza, Egypt, has a tail. It is often overlooked because most people view the monument from the front.
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#PaleoAgainstAI
This repost is LONG overdue, but THANK YOU SO MUCH, Dr. Diana King, for making such a solid video about the damage AI is doing to science!
WE NEED 'PaleoAgainstAI' TO SPREAD TO OTHER PLATFORMS, ESPECIALLY YOUTUBE, TIKTOK AND INSTAGRAM.
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The polling expert believes the midterm elections could be so disastrous for Trump that the results will effectively end his presidency. thedailybeast.com/nate-silve…








































