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• The Base That Was Not There: What Area 51 Was Actually Hiding

  Two million people signed up to storm Area 51 in 2019. The base had been officially declassified six years earlier, and what it was built to hide was an aeroplane. The CIA's own historians have admitted that spy flights out of Groom Lake accounted for more than half of all UFO reports for about fifteen years, and that the Air Force gave the public explanations it knew were false. The cost of that secrecy was paid by the men who burned the waste.

  Technology · 2026-08-17

• Man Will Never Fly: How One Century Proved Every 'Impossible' Wrong

  In October 1903 a great American newspaper worked out, seriously and in print, that a flying machine was somewhere between one million and ten million years away. Sixty-nine days later two bicycle mechanics from Ohio flew one anyway. That single joke of timing turned out to be the opening move of the fastest hundred years of invention in human history, from a beach in North Carolina to a phone that fits in a pocket and does everything at once.

  Technology · 2026-08-13

• The Bulb That Never Went Out: What a 1925 Cartel Actually Proves

  A light bulb in a Californian fire station has been burning since 1901, and it is the internet's favourite evidence that things used to be built properly. It is not evidence of that. But there was a real conspiracy to make bulbs die sooner, it met in Geneva in January 1925, it fined its own members for building lamps that lasted, and the minutes survive. What that cartel does and does not prove about your washing machine turns out to be a more interesting question than the meme allows.

  Technology · 2026-08-05

• One Giant Leap: How a Cold War Missile Programme Reached the Moon

  In October 1957 anyone with a shortwave set could tune in and hear a beep from orbit. The beep was the point, and so was the fact that the rocket underneath it had been designed to deliver a nuclear warhead. Both superpowers began from the same captured German hardware and the same forced labour, and the Moon landing was the by-product of an argument about missiles. Then the argument ended, and so did the programme, and nobody left low Earth orbit again for fifty-four years.

  Technology · 2026-07-31

• The Data Brokers You Never Meet: How Your Information Gets Bought and Sold

  A whole industry collects and resells information about you. You have almost certainly never heard of the companies in it, and that is not an accident.

  Technology · 2026-07-09

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