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Today is Inventors Day in the United States, in honor of Thomas Edison, who was born on this date back in 1847. The holiday is celebrated in a handful of other countries around the world on the birthdays of their respective famous national inventors. (Someone should invent an international day for inventors.) We’d like to [...]

Today, we’re told, is the birthday of the famous British detective Sherlock Holmes, most recently portrayed by Robert Downey Jr. in Guy Ritchie’s new film Sherlock Holmes. We’re not clear if this is because the 1887 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle short story in which Holmes first appeared (“A Study in Scarlet”) was published on this [...]

Those mainstream mediators at TIME have released their annual list of lists, and among the most fascinating is their hierarchy of time-capsule buzzwords. Their Top 10 Buzzwords listicle goes like so:

1. Change: The all-pervasive shorthand for Barack Obama’s campaign, uses of “change” in 2008 automatically assumed a time of hardship and a vague, knee-jerk optimism, [...]

With the past looking increasingly nice as compared to today’s recession-times, and tense holidays making us wish we could just accelerate into 2009 and beyond, the good-natured movie addicts at Unreality bring us this list: The 10 Best Movies Based On Time Travel. A classic trope of action and sci-fi film plots, the pool of [...]