By Aaron Downey Dark and delightful, artistic and unusual, Morbid Curiosities: Collections of the Uncommon and the Bizarre is a glimpse into 18 fascinating collections of oddities. But more than that, it is also a collection of the collectors themselves. Author Paul Gambino’s familiarity with these traders of the macabre has granted him access to[…]
By Mark Prince You may have never heard of siphon coffee making. Then again, you may have read about it in the New York Times and thought it was some $20,000 gizmo used by crazy coffee nerds in San Francisco. You may have heard of it under a plethora of other names – vacpots, vacuum[…]
Military-style troops confronted Dakota Access water defenders recently, underscoring the common narrative U.S. tribes share with the world’s Indigenous Peoples. By Jenni Monet / 09.30.2016 When opposition to the Dakota Access pipeline galvanized the support of hundreds of U.S. tribes, it became an unprecedented show of Indian Country unity and resolve. Now, it’s a global[…]
By Dr. Paul Brians Emeritus Professor English Washington State University Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was notoriously unread and uninfluential during his own lifetime, and his works suffered considerable distortion in the hands of his sister Elisabeth, who managed his literary estate and twisted his philosophy into a set of ideas supporting Hitler and Nazism (Hitler had[…]
This September 2016 self-portrait of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at the “Quela” drilling location in the scenic “Murray Buttes” area on lower Mount Sharp. The panorama was stitched together from multiple images taken by the MAHLI camera at the end of the rover’s arm. / Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS 10.03.2016 After collecting drilled rock[…]
Former G.W. Bush Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff By April Hamlin / 10.04.2016 In a surprising twist, former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced that he will be throwing his support behind Hillary Clinton rather than Donald Trump. Chertoff’s endorsement isn’t shocking just because of his work with President George W. Bush’s administration or because[…]
thenewyorkcrank.blogspot.com By Albrecht Classen The Medieval Chastity Belt: A Myth-Making Process / Albrecht Classen Why would any serious medievalist turn his/her attention to this most spurious object, the medieval chastity belt, and examine its alleged reality and dissemination all over the world? Most people, both within the academia and outside, tend to chuckle when they[…]
Scientists have long suspected that the way materials behave on the nanoscale – that is when particles have dimensions of about 1–100 nanometres – is different from how they behave on any other scale. A new paper in the journal Chemical Science provides concrete proof that this is the case. 09.29.2016 The laws of thermodynamics govern[…]
A vendor waits for customers at a steel pipe shop in Hefei, China / Yahoo Finance By Kurt Eichenwald / 10.03.2016 Newsweek Columnist Plenty of blue-collar workers believe that, as president, Donald Trump would be ready to fight off U.S. trade adversaries and reinvigorate the country’s manufacturing industries through his commitment to the Rust Belt.[…]
The Nobel Committee making the announcement. TT news agency/EPA By Dr. Stephen Clark / 10.04.2016 Lecturer in Physics University of Bath The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2016 has been awarded to three British scientists working in the US for their theoretical work explaining strange states of matter, including superconductors, superfluids and thin magnetic films.[…]