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retro-futurism May 25, 2012 0 The Secret to Becoming a Magician (in 1882)
retro future May 11, 2012 0 The Coolest Airship Pictures You’ve Ever Seen
retro future May 10, 2012 0 When Dagwood Bumstead Split the Atom
retro future May 10, 2012 0 The 1950s Space Age style known as Googie lives on forever
retro future May 8, 2012 0 The Man Who Declared War on Gravity
retrofuturism May 7, 2012 0 Celebrate Science with These Insane Retro Posters
star trek May 1, 2012 0 Why Star Trek’s Vision of the Future is Out of Date
retro futurism Apr 26, 2012 0 How Technicolor created ruby slippers without using color film
secret history Apr 9, 2012 0 Even in the 1870s, humans were obsessed with ridiculous photos of cats
retro futurism Apr 5, 2012 0 Tremble before the Daleks of 1918
secret history Apr 3, 2012 0 Was This Ancient Monolith a Stone Age Astronomy Tool?
futurism Apr 2, 2012 0 Watch Arthur C. Clarke predict the internet and the iPads decades before they were invented
retro futurism Mar 30, 2012 0 Here’s Andy Warhol painting Debbie Harry with a 1980s paint program
scientology Mar 16, 2012 0 Scientology’s 1969 Predictions for Life in 2010… on Another Planet
retro futurism Mar 10, 2012 0 In 1939, a robot dog was killed while chasing a car. Really.
retro futurism Mar 6, 2012 0 The 1935 plan to use rocket airplanes to deliver US mail
holy crap wtf Mar 1, 2012 0 Old U.S. Army newsreel documents the effects of psychoactive chemicals. On cats.
star trek Feb 9, 2012 0 Why doesn’t anybody use social media on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine?
steampunk Jan 27, 2012 0 It’s Time to Rethink Steampunk
retro futurism Jan 18, 2012 0 The Massive Ultra-bright Street Lights that Could Never Be Turned Off
retro futurism Jan 3, 2012 0 Isaac Asimov weighs in with enduring insights on science, faith, and the future
retro futurism Dec 8, 2011 0 A Beautiful Look at the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair, When The Future Was Magical
weird inventions Nov 12, 2011 0 Dropping 1000 feet inside a giant bullet = the most bad-ass amusement park ride that never was
retrofuturism Nov 6, 2011 0 The planets of the Solar System, according to crazed pulp comics of the 1940s
retrofuturism Oct 18, 2011 0 Hilariously optimistic 1954 magazine article proclaimed we’d all be piloting flying saucers by 1965
secret history Sep 25, 2011 0 During World War I, France began building a fake Paris to confuse German bombers
trailer frenzy Sep 14, 2011 0 Cool documentary trailer asks, "What can steampunk teach us about the future?"
debunkery Sep 2, 2011 0 1950s PSA helps demolish the myth of "Z-Rays"
retrofuturism Aug 20, 2011 0 1960s futurists predicted we’d have super-intelligent ape chauffeurs by 2020
retro futurism Aug 10, 2011 0 Incredible CGI demo from the late 1980s shows earliest efforts to represent animal motion realistically
retrofuturism Aug 9, 2011 0 In the Hospital of the Future, babies were kept in plastic drawers
sex Aug 6, 2011 0 That time Penthouse published a science fiction issue
headphones Aug 2, 2011 0 Look Like a Jetson With These Retro-Futuristic iHome Headphones
retrofuturism Jul 30, 2011 0 In this 1995 MTV News report, Newt Gingrich defends internet porn
cowboys and aliens Jul 30, 2011 0 Clarissa Explains It All prophesied the movie Cowboys & Aliens
retro futurism Jul 18, 2011 0 Meet the ODEX, the creepiest insectbot of the 1980s
mad urbanism Jul 17, 2011 0 A brief history of the pneumatic tube transport systems that never were
retro futurism Jul 17, 2011 0 1970s NASA film predicted we’d colonize space before the year 2000
retro futurism Jul 9, 2011 0 Letters to the Year 2076 (from high schoolers in the Year 1976)
retro futurism Jul 2, 2011 0 Miss Honeywell, the 1960s "robotic" housewife that sold blenders
modern ruins Jun 18, 2011 0 More scenes from Taiwan’s cursed retrofuturistic resort that never was

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