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Pac-Man, released in 1980, is one of the most played video games in human history. Hundreds of millions of people have guided that yellow circle around its maze, eating dots, fleeing ghosts. Almost none of them have ever seen the game end. Not because they weren’t good enough — but because, in a very real […]

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Somewhere in the source code of Windows 95 — one of the most widely used pieces of software ever released — there is a small block of code whose only job is to ask a single, oddly specific question. Is the user currently running SimCity? If the answer is yes, Windows 95 quietly changes how […]

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On August 4, 1972, U.S. military pilots flying south of Haiphong harbour in North Vietnam saw something they could not explain. The sea below them, by every account, was empty. No ships. No vessels of any kind moving through the water. And yet, as they watched, the ocean began to erupt. One after another, in […]

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Almost everyone past the age of about thirty has said some version of the same sentence. The years are going faster. A summer that once felt endless now closes in a few weekends. Christmas seems to arrive before the last one has been put away. The feeling is consistent enough that it has been studied […]

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On 1 March 1982, the Soviet Venera 13 lander touched down on Venus at 7.5 degrees south, 303 degrees east, on a plain east of the highland region Phoebe Regio. It operated on the surface for 127 minutes before going silent. According to NASA’s mission archive, it endured a surface temperature of 457 degrees Celsius […]

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