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15 powerful insights from Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five
There aren’t many writers who witnessed a 20th century apocalypse at first hand. But of those who have Kurt Vonnegut’s response, Slaughter House Five, is arguably the most memorable.
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Italian Pietro Coppo's World Map from 1520
Notice how unknown the rest of the world was, especially the Americas.
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112 AD letter from a Roman governor asking how to deal with an obscure new sect, "Christianity"
A letter capturing the first seeds of Christianity, and how it was initially received. Really interesting to read.
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A 60-Year-Old Technology Offers A Solution To A Modern Problem
Tape is the oldest computer storage medium still in use. It was first put to work on a UNIVAC computer in 1951. But although tape sales have been falling since 2008 and dropped by 14% in 2012, according to the Santa Clara Consulting Group, tape’s decline has now gone into reverse: sales grew by 1% in the last quarter of 2012 and a 3% rise is expected this year.
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23 Vintage Ads That Would Be Banned Today
Even though you might deny it, it won't change the fact that you live in a world created by marketers. Advertising is a powerful force that has shaped our attitudes and behavior since the beginning of the 20th century when it got into radio, and the late 1940s when it got into television. With ...
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155 Years Before the GIF: The First Looping Animations Created for the Phenakistoscope
Almost 155 years before CompuServe launched their first animated GIF in 1987, Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau created the Phenakistoscope – commonly regarded as the first device to display a true animation.
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20 Surprising Facts You Might Not Know About ‘Home Alone’
The movie made a star of Macaulay Culkin, and will probably be shown on TV every year until our sun burns out and human life ceases to exist. In the meantime, here’s some trivia you may not know about one of the best Christmas comedies of all time.
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No girls allowed
Unraveling the story behind the stereotype of video games being for boys.
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Destination Nowhere: The Dark Side of the Cruise Industry
Beneath the seemingly carefree luxury-hotel-on-the-water experience lurk some very real dangers.
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The pre-history of the US dollar
Wampum and tobacco.
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Comrade of American held in N.Korea recalls friendship, stealth mission
Why Newman felt compelled to set foot in North Korea more than 60 years after the end of the Korean War remains a baffling question to Hedges and several other surviving members of the U.S. Army 8240th Unit.
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Giant World War II aircraft-carrying submarine discovered off Oahu coast
A World War II-era Imperial Japanese Navy mega-submarine, the I-400, lost since 1946 when it was intentionally scuttled by U.S. forces after its capture, has been discovered.
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That Time Donald Duck was a Nazi
Disney has its fair share of questionable cartoons in the archives and over the years, the company has been accused of everything from racism to sexism, the promotion of drug use and even pedophilia. And then there was that time that Donald Duck was a Nazi.
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Tim Page's Vietnam War
Tim Page is a photojournalist of the old school. He arrived in Saigon, South Vietnam, in 1965, when he was 20 years old. Over the next few years, Tim saw enough Agent Orange and Viet Cong to last anyone a lifetime, but he didn't stop going to dangerous places and taking incredible photos.
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Jonathan Kay: Sketching North Korea’s sadism
Earlier this month, North Korea publicly executed as many as 80 citizens for such “crimes” as owning a Bible and watching Western movies. According to the South Korean newspaper JoongAng Ilbo, the executioners covered many of the victims’ heads with bags, and then machine-gunned them to death in front of a stadium crowd.
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The French Connection
How the Revolution, and two thinkers, bequeathed us ‘right’ and ‘left.’
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The Exploding Anti-Tank Dogs of World War II
These dogs, usually Alsatians, were also called “Hundminen” or “dog mines.” They were trained to carry explosives on their bodies to enemy tanks, where they would then be detonated. No, it did not end very well for the dogs in question. This type of animal weaponry was first used by the Soviets. Following a decision in 1924 to allow dogs to aid the military, a dog training school was set up in Moscow.
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Why Nuclear Weapons Don’t Spread (Quickly)
To date, nuclear weapons have spread more slowly than most anticipated. And the pace is slowing even further.
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Discovery of Oldest DNA Scrambles Human Origins Picture
Scientists reveal the surprising genetic identity of early human remains from roughly 400,000 years ago in Spain.
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The Death Dealer
When James Arthur Ray lifted the heavy tarp door and beckoned his devotees into a wood-frame dome, they obeyed. Tall and confident, Ray watched them enter one by one, more than 50 of them.
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