Lego Celebrates 50 Years of Building Hot on the heels of the Helvetica font's half century, another classic cultural icon celebrates its 50th birthday this year, none other than Lego building bricks. It was at 1:58 p.m. on January 28, 1958, that then-Lego head Godtfred Kirk Christiansen filed a patent for the iconic plastic brick with its stud-and-hole design. Since then, the company has made a staggering 400 billion ... Read full entry
Lego Celebrates 50 Years of Building
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Human Evolution Speeding Up? Apparently so, but the changes vary from continent to continent. Science fiction writers have suggested a future Earth populated by a blend of all races into a common human form. In real life, the reverse seems to be happening. People are evolving more rapidly than in the distant past, with residents of various continents becoming increasingly different from one ... Read full entry
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