WIRED Staffers' Fondest Memories of Our Old Nokia Phones
• http://www.wired.comThis week, Nokia quietly packed up its cubicle in Redmond, bid its American coworkers at Microsoft farewell, and left America.
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WIRED Staffers' Fondest Memories of Our Old Nokia Phones
• http://www.wired.comThis week, Nokia quietly packed up its cubicle in Redmond, bid its American coworkers at Microsoft farewell, and left America.
Genius: A Periscope That Gives You Eyes in the Back of Your Head
• http://www.wired.comThroughout history, humans have used periscopes for their utility. Naval ships would peek above water while remaining submerged; troops in WWI used them to see out of their trenches without the risk of being shot.
Chickens Today Are Shockingly Bigger Than They Used To Be
• http://www.businessinsider.comResearchers in Canada sought to raise three breeds of broiler chickens common in 1957, 1978, and 2005 without the influence of disparate feeds or hormones to see how they'd changed genetically.
John M. Liggett: From Embalmer Extraordinaire to Serial Killer
• http://www.lewrockwell.com,John M. Liggett: From Embalmer Extraordinaire to Serial Killer—then Dead Man Walking
George Will Confirms Nixon's Vietnam Treason
• arcleinPublished as the 40th Anniversary of Nixon's resignation approaches, Will's column confirms that Nixon feared public disclosure of his role in sabotaging the 1968 Vietnam peace talks. Will says Nixon established a "plumbers unit" to stop potentia
The Enemy Within
• http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Bionic MosquitoTuesday marked Armistice Day across much of the West – the last day of the Great War in 1918.
Nearly 50 years ago, the FBI sent civil Martin Luther King, Jr. a letter threatening...
• http://www.businessinsider.comNearly 50 years ago, the FBI sent civil Martin Luther King, Jr. a letter threatening to make public sordid details of his sex life if the civil rights icon failed to do the "one thing left for you to do."
Harvard students take the 1964 Louisiana Literacy Test that black voters had to pass...
• By David Mccormack for MailOnlineHarvard students take the 1964 Louisiana Literacy Test that black voters had to pass before being allowed to go to the polls - and every single person FAILED
Facial hair's formative years: what the Vikings and Romans did for male grooming
• http://www.telegraph.co,From Ancient Egypt to the Crusades, facial hair has fallen in and out of fashion just as much as it does today, writes historian Lucinda Hawksley
How the Fall of the Berlin Wall Radicalized Putin
• arcleinIn the late spring and early summer of 1989, Dresden faced its ?rst unsanctioned gatherings: handfuls of people collecting in public squares, ?rst protesting the rigging of local elections in May and then, like the rest of Germany, demanding the
The Continuing Shame of Veterans Day by Bill Buppert
• http://zerogov.comThe USSA has been at active war with the world since 1893 after the extermination campaign against American aboriginals was close to its bloody conclusion in the USA.
Carl Sagan On What Life On Mars Would Be Like
• http://www.popsci.comHappy Carl Sagan day! Celebrate with this blast from the past in the pages of Popular Science
Carl Sagan On What Life On Mars Would Be Like
• http://www.popsci.comHappy Carl Sagan day! Celebrate with this blast from the past in the pages of Popular Science
Tearing down the Berlin Wall: the man who made it possible
• http://www.dailypaul.comThe Berlin Wall was an insurmountable obstacle for 17 million Germans...until the day it wasn't. All because of the snap decision by one man.
"Eddy Chevvy," Gorby, and the Fall of the Wall
• http://www.unz.com, By Eric MargolisTwenty-five years ago this week, the Soviet empire in Eastern Europe was collapsing. The Berlin Wall had been breached. The Communist East German government was literally swept away by the storm tide of history.
Acharya Kanad and Atomic Theory 2,600 Years Ago
• arcleinKashyap was on a pilgrimage to Prayag when he saw thousands of pilgrims litter the streets with flowers and rice grains, which they offered at the temple. Kashyap, fascinated by small particles, began collecting the grains of rice. A crowd gathered a
8,000 Glowing Balloons Recreate the Berlin Wall
• http://www.wired.com, By Liz StinsonThe first blows to bring down the Berlin Wall were struck nearly 25 years ago to the day.
Ex-SEAL Robert O'Neill reveals himself as shooter who killed Osama bin Laden
• http://www.washingtonpost.com,In 15 years of dangerous missions — from midnight raids on al-Qaeda safe houses in Iraq to battling Somali pirates from the deck of a heaving Navy ship on the high seas — there had never been one so shadowed by dread.
Empire vs. Peaceful Living
• https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Robert FergusonIt's time for the majority of people in the United States to realize what the federal government really is
Centennials? What Centennials?
Melinda Pillsbury-FosterWhen the Dog does not bark something is wrong. Pivotal technologies and events are celebrated because they changed our world. Why did the National Park Service ignore two such events which happened in Yosemite?
Presidential Crimes: Then And Now
• http://www.paulcraigroberts.orgWriting for Americans is not always an enjoyable experience. Many readers want to have their prejudices confirmed, not challenged.
Fall of the Berlin Wall Eyewitness: An Accidental Explosion of Freedom
• http://www.unz.com, By Patrick CockburnA journalist who witnessed the events of 1989 from a Soviet perspective looks back on a surreal period when attempts at moderate reform quickly an uncontrollable momentum of their own.
When Money Dies: Germany and Paper Money After 1910
• by Marcia Christoff-KurapovnaThe story of the destruction of the German mark during the hyper-inflation of Weimar Germany from 1919 to its horrific peak in November 1923 is usually dismissed as a bizarre anomaly in the economic history of the twentieth century. But no episode be
The Fourth British Defeat in Afghanistan
• http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Eric MargolisThe last British soldiers were airlifted out of Afghanistan last week, marking the sorry end of Britain's fourth failed invasion of Afghanistan. With them went the last detachment of US Marines in Helmand.
Government Drug Dealing: from "Kill the Messenger" to "Pinocchio"
• http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Nathan Kleffman"For the better part of a decade, a San Francisco Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods street gangs of Los Angeles and funneled millions in drug profits to a Latin American guerrilla army run by the U.S. Central Intellige
The Day Israel Attacked America
• http://www.aljazeera.comAl Jazeera investigates the shocking truth behind a deadly Israeli attack on a US naval vessel.
World's longest sniper kill - 2.47km twice!
• http://www.gizmag.com, By Mike HanlonThe sniper is without doubt the most feared combatant in any theater of war, the best of whom have an array of skills far beyond simply being able to hit human targets at a distance. Snipers are the most cost effective way of killing the enemy.
Why It Took 23 Years to Link Amelia Earhart's Disappearance to This Scrap of...
• http://www.wired.comWhy It Took 23 Years to Link Amelia Earhart's Disappearance to This Scrap of Metal.
Researchers May Have Found A Fragment of Amelia Earhart's Plane
• http://www.popsci.comA patch of aluminum discovered in 1991 has been identified as part of the long lost aircraft.
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