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Was LSD the Soviet Union's secret weapon?
May 18, 2012
| By Matt Novak
American troops tuning in to wartime German radio broadcasts found themselves listening to one of Hitler's strangest experiments: the swinging sounds and virulently pro-Nazi lyrics of Charlie and His Orchestra
May 17, 2012
| By Mike Dash
Captain Lawrence Oates wrote that if Robert Scott's team didn't win the race to the South Pole, "we shall come home with our tails between our legs." Actually, worse was in store
May 16, 2012
| By Gilbert King
College graduates take note: Your dream career as a robot psychologist or nasal technologist is just around the corner
May 15, 2012
| By Matt Novak
Food writer Ruth Reichl looks at the impact of the famous chef's partnership with her husband Paul
June 2012
| By Ruth Reichl
Didn’t know he was an artist too? "Tut tut!"
May 09, 2012
| By K. Annabelle Smith
"Nobody ever remembers anything about me except one thing," Yankees pitcher Carl Mays would say. The circumstances surrounding his beaning of Ray Chapman made sure of that
May 09, 2012
| By Gilbert King
The question was not “Should you eat human flesh?” says one historian, but, “What sort of flesh should you eat?”
May 07, 2012
| By Maria Dolan
Angered by the way the Soviet Union treated him, Mao Zedong planned revenge on Nikita Khrushchev during the Soviet premier's 1958 visit to Beijing. Mao's weapon: a pool party.
May 04, 2012
| By Mike Dash
In 1922, Hugo Gernsback envisioned a 1,000-foot tall concrete monument that "would be a lasting tribute to our race, and to the progress that is exemplified by Electricity"
May 03, 2012
| By Matt Novak
Frank Ward was a 17-year-old crewman when he saw the infamous disaster, but his memories of that day are still strong, 75 years later
May 02, 2012
| By Megan Gambino
As computer graphics improved in the 1980s and 1990s, people imagined that actors like Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe and even a Laurence Olivier/Abraham Lincoln mash-up would star in the movies of tomorrow
April 30, 2012
| By Matt Novak
The evidence against Albert Tirrell was lurid and damning—until Rufus Choate, a protegé of the great Daniel Webster, agreed to come to the defense
April 30, 2012
| By Karen Abbott
Are Angelenos destined to be perpetually surrounded by super-sized advertisements?
April 27, 2012
| By Matt Novak
According to the National Building Museum, these houses, more than most, have impacted the way we live
April 27, 2012
| By Megan Gambino
A trip into space without leaving Earth--or even going outdoors
April 25, 2012
| By Matt Novak
When a would-be assassin shot his .38 at the presidential candidate, the 50-page manuscript and metal eyeglasses case tucked against Roosevelt's chest absorbed the blow
April 25, 2012
| By Gilbert King
More than 20 years before the iPad, an entrepreneur saw the potential of interactive, digital magazines
April 23, 2012
| By Matt Novak
Close by the Mormon colony of Colonia Dublan is an unlikely tourist attraction: the small hilltop where the legendary Apache leader exacted his revenge
April 20, 2012
| By Joseph Stromberg
In 1983, a Chinese fast-food restaurant hired a curious-looking pair of servers: Tanbo R-1 and Tanbo R-2.
April 19, 2012
| By Matt Novak
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