quote [ Route 85 in California now inspires dread. Some of us remember when it was a vision of the future. ]

quote [ Renault designer Michel Boué's Renault 5 ferried millions of urban families through cramped city streets for 40 years. ]

quote [ Pompous know-it-alls were once a mainstay of mockery on the Italian stage. Arnoud Visser investigates this stock character of the pedant and his association with individual superiority, social distinction, and sexual transgression, finding a form of satire that took aim at the Renaissance humanist?s erudition and lofty ideals. ]

quote [ Old web forums were poorly coded and rough around the edges, but maybe we gave up on them too quickly in the social media era. ]

quote [ The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters. ]

quote [ How an old-fashioned favorite re-conquered America. ]

quote [ Arguably the first work of fiction to feature a Tyrannosaurus rex, Louis Pope Gratacap?s The New Northland (1915) is at once kaleidoscopic, mischievous, fascinating ? and exhausting. Richard Fallon explores this ?lost world? novel, finding a work as interested in cutting-edge science as it was in paying dues to its generic precursors. ]

quote [ In the summer of 1774, a team of British astronomers working under the patronage of the Royal Society established camp at the foot of a lonely mountain in the Scottish Highlands to conduct one of the most ingenious scientific experiments of the 18th century. ]

quote [ The New Deal project that preserved Kentucky?s recipes ]

quote [ the PDP-1, manufactured by Ken Olsen's Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), can also credibly be called the first console gaming machine ]