From the rise of credit cards and the first computer modems to the birth of microchips, video games, Lego, and even ...

Was the world's first computer invented over bourbon, under a painting of a nude woman, after midnight at Rock Island's Hunter's Club? Kirwan Cox, a documentary filmmaker from Montreal, Canada, thinks ...

Imagine you’re a copper miner in southeastern Europe in the year 3900 B.C.E. Day after day you haul copper ore through the mine’s sweltering tunnels. You’ve resigned yourself to the grueling monotony ...