“The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder is as good as dead, a snuffled-out candle”—Albert Einstein
It was 1960 and David Latimer planted this mini garden in a giant bottle.
He watered it for the last time in 1972, before sealing it tightly.
50 years later, this plant, a tradescantia, is still alive and has become a generational heirloom of the Latimer family.
It was 1976 and this was one of the first home video game systems.
Meet Telestar from Coleco.
It sold for $49.95 and was based on the General Instruments AY-3-8500 chip.
It played really one game.
Contrary to popular notion natives did have a writing system and we see this preserved on birch bark scrolls.
The Ojibwa people of North America wrote complex geometrical patterns and shapes on these scrolls.
Many are now in museums like the Smithsonian.