The luck changed for Billy Ray Harris one day last month when the usual tinkling of coins being dropped into his beggar’s cup on a plaza in Kansas City was punctuated by a slightly heavier clunk. A

Psychological manipulation via being made to question one's own judgement

Has Brian Banks' dream of an NFL career been delayed or even destroyed by a false charge of rape and five years in prison?

period in Chinese history

Gaslighting is perhaps one of the most insidious manipulative tactics out there because it works to distort and erode your sense of reality; it eats away at your ability to trust yourself and inevi…

Qian Xuesen, or Hsue-Shen Tsien (Chinese: 钱学森; 11 December 1911 – 31 October 2009), was a Chinese mathematician, cyberneticist, aerospace engineer, and physicist who made significant contributions to the field of aerodynamics and established engineering cybernetics.…

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fugitive slaves and slavery abolitionists, from Macon, Georgia

American civil war spy

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The hippest fucking thing... © 1994 Miramax

Amelia Earhart was prepared to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, but not to wed. The first time her fiancé, George Putnam, proposed to her, she said no. She declined Putnam’s offer the second, third, fourth and fifth try, as well.

A forgotten science experiment honors the late, great Fred Rogers.

1980 film by David Lynch

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The newly-published 2017 National Survey on Drug Use and Health indicates that Americans aged 55 and older are more likely to be regular cannabis consumers than Generation Z.

Our bodies give us multiple signs when something is not right — but we often ignore or are not aware of them. Just take ear wax, for example. Like most bodil...

KGB disinformation campaign

A very short book excerpt

Take a look at the chemical elements in the human body and learn what they do to keep you alive and well.

Radithor was a patent medicine that is a well-known example of radioactive quackery and specifically of excessively broad and pseudoscientific application of the principle of radiation hormesis. It consisted of triple distilled water containing at a minimum…