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In my latest animation, the Nigerian-born author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie describes coming to America for college and being floored by how little...
- What consumer culture looked like in Communist East Berlin
“Rather than sticking with turgid socialist clichés, in 1958 East German...
Listen to MIke D yell at an ill-informed radio producer because sometimes it’s really fun to be wrong: http://bit.ly/UralXA
–Sean, Sideshow
From Cats Dressed as People, 100 Years Ago, one of 15 photos. The Aviator. (Harry Whittier Frees/Library of Congress)
Memento Mori by Henrik Hondius (1626)
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey - Part 1
Some claim that evolution is just a theory, as if it were merely an opinion.