“Over the recent Christmas season, my 21-year-old deejay nephew flipped through the large collection of vinyl LPs from the sixties, seventies, and eighties now shelved in our basement. Many is the time when I have privately cursed that collection, hauling heavy boxes of vinyl up and down steep flights of stairs on moving days. But my husband steadfastly refused to sell or pitch out anything—from the Dukes of Stratosphear to the Stranglers—and now I’m rather glad that he did. We now have a miniature museum of sound from the sixties, seventies, and eighties, complete with original shrink wraps and a few Andy Warhol covers.

But what will future generations – particularly future archaeologists—make of the hundreds of thousands of tons of vinyl recordings that our civilization pressed in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries? I expect most of you have seen that clever Pepsi commercial set in the future, where a middle-aged archaeologist leads his Pepsi-drinking students through a split level ranch house as if it were a Roman villa, and is unable to identify a dusty glass bottle of Coca-Cola. What will future researchers make of our record collections?”

For $5.95 you can have a constant reminder how Wall Street crooks wiped you out!  Place it on your computer at work, on your TV set at home, or on your car’s dashboard as a constant reminder of the recession debacle.  We must NEVER forget, thanks to Archie McPhee's Wall Street Victim dolls dolls.

The CBS series 21st Century aired a program titled, "The Mystery of Life" on February 26, 1967. The program looked at genetics and the future of humanity.

In this clip, host Walter Cronkite interviews biologist James Bonner. Bonner advocates a "large-scale program of [breeding] better people," otherwise known as eugenics. Procreation by committee sounds like tons of fun! And be sure to check out the extensive -EUGENICS ARCHIVE- at Upsidebackwards!

In 1969 Ralph H. Baer and Bill Harrison played their first game of video ping pong. The two engineers saw the television screen as a blank slate for electronic interactivity, and with millions of screens in homes all over the world they were right to take on such an ambitious project.

As the world crashes deeper into the dark pit of global "recession/depression" the masses stagger under the weight of the news.

The political leaders of all countries stand in front of the gathered media conduits and pour forth a stream of rethoric explaining nothing!!!!!!!!!

TRILLIONS of $$$$$$$$$$ have disappeared around the world - taxpayers money will now be sucked from Gov. coffers to feed into the growing black hole of financial mystery.

Well ladies and gentlemen let me ask a simply question - WHERE HAS THE MONEY GONE???????

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Ever get a little motion sick from an illusion graphic designed to look like it's moving? A new study suggests that these illusions do more than trick the eye; they may also convince the brain that the graphic is actually moving

Once upon a time, 4.6 billion years ago, something was brewing in an unremarkable backwater of the Milky Way. The ragbag of stuff that suffuses the inconsequential, in-between bits of all galaxies - hydrogen and helium gas with just a sprinkling of solid dust - had begun to condense and form molecules. Unable to resist its own weight, part of this newly formed molecular cloud collapsed in on itself. In the ensuing heat and confusion, a star was born - our sun.

The Parents Television Council is warning parents about the Britney Spears song "If U Seek Amy" and urging radio stations not to broadcast it because the nonprofit organization believes it "would violate the broadcast indecency law" if aired between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m.

Saying the title phrase quickly out loud produces a sound akin to spelling out the F-word, said PTC president Tim Winter. "There is no misinterpreting the lyrics to this song, and it's certainly not about a girl named Amy," he said of the track, the third single from Spears' new Jive album, "Circus."