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Google Doesn't Seem to Want to Fix Reader Google

Google Doesn't Seem to Want to Fix Reader

When it comes to an app Google cares about, such as Gmail, it has shown a willingness to listen to user feedback

The Defining Carousel of the Amusement Park Age Library of Congress

The Defining Carousel of the Amusement Park Age

The Dentzel carousel of Glen Echo Park in Maryland is a gorgeous example of the merry-go-round industry's early 20th century output

A Fallout Shelter Where You Might Have Lived During a Nuclear War Library of Congress

A Fallout Shelter Where You Might Have Lived During a Nuclear War

Designed to house about 100 people in the event of a Soviet nuclear attack during the Cold War, this shelter provided few comforts

The Wind Tunnel That Helped Win World War II Built in America/LOC

The Wind Tunnel That Helped Win World War II

During the war, two fans powered by 4,000-horsepower motors ran around the clock, seven days a week, to test 18 different aircraft

The Climatron: A Massive, Air-Conditioned Dome Greenhouse Built in America/LOC

The Climatron: A Massive, Air-Conditioned Dome Greenhouse

The Bucky Fuller-inspired Geodesic dome encoded the hope that weather would no longer be able to inconvenience humans

Gallery: Edison's Workshop Library of Congress

Gallery: Edison's Workshop

A tour through Building Number 5, the most important structure at Edison's famed Essex, New Jersey, campus, where the inventor tinkered with audiovisual equipment

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David H. Freedman on smartphone apps and the perfected self, Mark Bowden on being in the dumb kids' class, James Parker on Glenn Beck, Isaac Chotiner on P. G. Wodehouse, and more

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