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  2. List of obsolete technology - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of obsolete technology, superseded by newer technologies. Obsolescence is defined as the "transition from available to unavailable from the manufacturer in accordance with the original specification." [1] Newer technologies can mostly be considered as disruptive innovation. Many older technologies co-exist with newer alternatives ...

  3. List of lost inventions - Wikipedia

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    Stradivarius stringed instruments, considered some of the finest instruments ever made. Theories explaining their purported quality include denser wood unique to the time period due to solar activity, treatment with other materials like calcium and aluminum which have been found in a 2016 shaving, and technique. [ 1 ]

  4. Wikipedia:Unusual articles/Technology, inventions and ...

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    The most advanced toilets in the world with computers, nozzles and flashing lights. Lloyds Bank turd: Possibly the largest example of fossilised human feces ever found, discovered under the future site of a Lloyds Bank in England. Shit flow diagram: This is the technical term. Stainless steel soap: Metallic soap that removes odours from the ...

  5. List of unsolved problems in biology - Wikipedia

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    Homochirality is an obvious characteristic of life on Earth, yet extraterrestrial samples contain largely racemic compounds. [7] It is not known whether homochirality existed before life, whether the building blocks of life must have this particular chirality, or whether life must be homochiral at all.

  6. Timeline of historic inventions - Wikipedia

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    The Lower Paleolithic period lasted over 3 million years, during which there many human-like species evolved including toward the end of this period, Homo sapiens.The original divergence between humans and chimpanzees occurred 13 (), however interbreeding continued until as recently as 4 Ma, with the first species clearly belonging to the human (and not chimpanzee) lineage being ...

  7. List of experiments - Wikipedia

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    Walter Mischel's marshmallow experiment showing the importance to life outcomes of the ability to delay gratification (beginning late 1960s) Philip Zimbardo's Stanford prison experiment (1971) Allan and Beatrix Gardner's attempts to teach American Sign Language to the chimpanzee Washoe (1970s) Martin Seligman studies learned helplessness in ...

  8. 25 Amazing Science Facts That Are Weird, Wild, and True - AOL

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    The post 25 Amazing Science Facts That Are Weird, Wild, and True appeared first on Reader's Digest. These strange facts prove the universe really is a mysterious place. The post 25 Amazing Science ...

  9. Wikipedia:Unusual articles - Wikipedia

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    The largest ever temporary United Nations territory, and the only one to be transferred to the country that was invading it to cause the U.N. takeover in the first place. United States involvement in regime change: Now, this is perhaps the most complicated and long article in this list. However, you'll find many surprises once you read it.