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• Newt 1968: Gingrich Led Protests Against Nude Censorship

  

  Newt Gingrich as professor at West Georgia College, circa 1975. In the continuing spirit of our recent posts on the 2012 Republican candidates, w... Read more

  The 26 January 2012 by   Kena
  CULTURE, POLITICS

• Making History Books

  

  Obviously, I need no persuading on the value of local history; but I do love new ways of exploring it. One of the most creative is artist Amy Lord's The Takeawa... Read more

  The 26 January 2012 by   Carolineld
  CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Heroin in Vietnam: The Robins Study Reexamined

  

  How everything we knew about heroin was wrong. Editor's note: The famous Robins study on heroin use among Vietnam veterans has been so often—and so... Read more

  The 24 January 2012 by   Dirkh
  PSYCHOLOGY

• Crazyism & Common Sense

  

  If you haven’t been following 3:AM’s interview series, you’re missing out. The Brian Leiter interview was one of the most cogent and compellin... Read more

  The 23 January 2012 by   Cris
  BIOLOGY, CULTURE, DEBATE, RELIGION

• THE GOLD RING: Read the Opening Chapter.

  

  Today, just in time to make money in the new year, we give you the opening chapter of THE GOLD RING -- the classic story of speculators Jay... Read more

  The 23 January 2012 by   Kena
  CULTURE, POLITICS

• Philosophers Do Cosmology (Again)

  

  Ever since humans began thinking and talking about the world, they have had ideas about its nature and within some larger structure which we now call the... Read more

  The 20 January 2012 by   Cris
  BIOLOGY, CULTURE, DEBATE, RELIGION

• Earl's Court: Reliefs and Reinforced Concrete

  

   Built in just two years despite being located over railway lines, Earl's Court Exhibition Centre opened with the Chocolate and Confectionery Exhibition... Read more

  The 20 January 2012 by   Carolineld
  CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• GUEST BLOGGER: Joe Farris on a Soldier's-eye View of World War II

  

  Long before becoming a popular cartoonist for The New Yorker and other top magazines, Joe Farris shipped out to World War II from his home in... Read more

  The 19 January 2012 by   Kena
  CULTURE, POLITICS

• Everything You Know About Corsets Is False

  

  image credit Did women really use corsets to achieve 13-inch waists? Did men demand such obscenely tiny waists? Did women make themselves sick misshaping... Read more

  The 19 January 2012 by   Gerard
  CULTURE, FASHION, LIFESTYLE, RANDOM

• Elephant House: U.K., U.S.A., France

  

  Birthplace of Harry Potter, Edinburgh, Scotland Lucy the Elephant, still there in Margate City, New Jersey Did you know that Paris might have had an enormous... Read more

  The 18 January 2012 by   Sedulia
  CULTURE, EXPAT, TRAVEL