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10 Facts About Poison
This weekend, New York City’s American Museum of Natural History opens its latest exhibit, The Power of Poison. There, visitors will get up close and personal to poisonous creatures, visit a forensic lab to work through real-life poison cases, and see how poison can actually be used for good. We went to a preview of the exhibit; here are just a few things we learned.
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Remembering 11/22/63… or not: Why it’s time for pop culture to stop killing Kennedy
On Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was shot dead in Dallas. I was not alive when this tragedy occurred, and yet it feels like I experienced it all the same, and many, many times over, too, for pop culture has been killing Kennedy for as long as I can remember.
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One JFK conspiracy theory that could be true
During the half century since President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, you may have heard about a few conspiracy theories. Decades of investigations, hearings, documents, records, books and interviews have failed to satisfy conspiracy theorists with a definitive answer to The Question: Did Lee Harvey Oswald act alone when he shot the President?
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Creationists' Last Stand at the State Board of Education
Will anti-evolutionists be able to adapt and survive in a new textbook market?
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New Scientist TV: Stone-Age cinema: Cave art conceals first animations
Think the first movies were screened in a cinema? According to an analysis of cave art, our prehistoric ancestors may have invented the concept while drawing on their walls.
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Congratulations, America. You're (Almost) Energy Independent.
For four decades, whenever the American political debate turned to energy, the discussion was all about shortage and scarcity, a reality that haunted the United States ever since the global oil crises of the 1970s. That conversation is over.
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The State of work in the Age of Anexiety
From 1954 thought 1974, American workers brought home most of the wealth that they produced. Since 1974, they've steadily lost power—and they're getting just a fraction of the wealth they produce today.
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Is There an Expiration Date on Evil? Former Nazi Guards Face Trial
In Germany a prosecutor has recommended 49 men and women who allegedly served as guards at Auschwitz face trial, but what’s the point? Leonard Rosen says history will judge.
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Leonardo Da Vinci's wacky piano is heard for the first time, after 500 years
A bizarre instrument combining a piano and cello has finally been played to an audience more than 500 years after it was dreamt up Leonardo da Vinci.
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Why Americans and Europeans may soon start dying of infections like it’s 1905 again
Antibiotics aren't doing what they're supposed to do anymore. You know, kill infections. Since Alexander Fleming invented penicillin 75 years ago, nearly all bacteria have mutated into strains impervious to antibiotics. Those souped up bacteria now kill hundreds of thousands of people, at a minimum, each year.
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Dukakis and the Tank: The inside story of the worst campaign photo op ever
Matt Bennett can still hear the reporters laughing, all 90 of them. He can still picture Sam Donaldson doubled over, guffawing, on a riser that looked out over a dusty field in suburban Detroit. Bennett was a 23-year-old political rookie in 1988 when he was sent to a General Dynamics facility in Sterling Heights, Mich., to organize a campaign stop...
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Why are we building new walls to divide us?
Using satellite imagery, users' pictures, video and first-hand testimony, Guardian reporters across the world chart the new walls being built to divide people from their neighbours.
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Inside the Cosmonaut Survival Kit
While NASA was developing its space ice cream and other trifles, the Soviet Union was working on a combination pistol and machete, for chopping wood and killing bears if they crash landed.
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U.S. Inequality in Six Charts
Last Friday, the Center for American Progress, the center-left think tank founded by Bill Clinton’s former chief of staff John Podesta, held a conference to launch its new Washington Center for Equitable Growth. The new center, which is being funded by the Sandler Foundation, will finance academic research into the causes and effects of inequality, broadly conceived, and function as a hub for policy makers, journalists, and others involved in the subject.
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Robert Wadlow: Tallest person who ever lived
In this photo, he's standing beside an average height man. Loads more pics and information in the source link provided.
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Here Are The First 4 Women In History To Complete Marine Infantry Training
Every Marine knows Opha Mae Johnson, the first woman who ever enlisted in the Marine Corps. Now almost 100 years later, the first four females in history have completed the grueling 59-day infantry evaluation course, three of which are graduating Thursday at the Marine Corps School of Infantry in Camp Geiger.
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Solved: the riddle of the rotating Egyptian statue
For months, curators at a British museum had been wondering how an ancient Egyptian statue in a sealed display cabinet had been able to rotate on its glass shelf, seemingly of its own
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The evolution of beauty - Face the facts
What makes for a beautiful visage, and why, may have been discovered accidentally on a Russian fur farm
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The American Police State
A young sociologist interrogates the criminal-justice system and tries to stay out of the spotlight.
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Fidel Castro: 'Oswald Could Not Have Been the One Who Killed Kennedy'
What the Cuban leader thinks really happened on that fateful November day in Dallas
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