History
Aυτοί Είναι οι Λόγοι που Γκέι Γερμανοί Ζητούν Αποζημιώσεις για έναν Ομοφοβικό Ναζιστικό Νόμο
Η ανάμνηση των πρώτων μεταπολεμικών δεκαετιών ακόμα βαραίνει τη Γερμανία και τις queer κοινότητές της.
Ποια Αμφίπολη; Η Μεγάλη Αρχαιολογική Ανακάλυψη της Χρονιάς Είναι τα Αρχαία Memes
Γιατί όταν οι Έλληνες φτιάχνανε memes, οι ξένοι ακόμα τρώγανε βελανίδια.
Είκοσι Ξεκαρδιστικά Μαθήματα Ελληνικής και Παγκόσμιας Ιστορίας
Σελίδα στο Facebook αλλάζει τελείως τον τρόπο με τον οποίο αντιλαμβανόμαστε την Ιστορία.
Φαβορίτες στα Προάστια: Οι Ροκαμπιλάδικες Συμμορίες του Παρισιού στα 80's
O Giles Elie Cohen φωτογράφισε τις πιο κουλ ανθρώπους που έζησαν ποτέ.
Tim Page's Vietnam War
Tim Page arrived in 1965 Vietnam at the tender age of 20 and began a career as a photojournalist that sent him all over the world, including the same jail cell as Jim Morrison.
I Kayaked to New York City’s Abandoned North Brother Island
In a city crammed with 8 million people, North Brother Island has sat abandoned since the 1960s. It's about a thousand feet from the shores of the South Bronx, and over the centuries it's been home to quarantined smallpox victims and Typhoid Mary, NYC...
The Site of Hitler’s Suicide Is Now a Playground
By the afternoon of his suicide, Adolf Hitler hadn’t seen the sun in ten days. He had been living in a concrete bunker 28 feet below the ruins of Berlin for months. Sixty-eight years later, Berlin is almost unrecognizable, and a slide sits atop the...
A Comprehensive Guide to Cooking Meth on ‘Breaking Bad’
As a chemist and someone interested in psychoactive drugs, I’m a huge fan of Breaking Bad. Although the clandestine chemistry always appeared accurate at first glance, I desired a more detailed critique of Walter White’s syntheses.
A Brief History of the US Government Spying on Its Citizens
The NSA’s surveillance of the internet and the phone records of millions of Americans isn't not the first time US government has taken an Big Brotherly interest in its citizens. The feds have been tapping into the private lives of Americans without...
Editing Homophobia out of the “Islamic Tradition”
Slave rape, marital rape, and plural marriage might be unpleasant to consider as part of Islamic sexuality, but they are deeply embedded in our established sources. But I do not believe that Islamic tradition is frozen in stone. Every translation is an...
Fucking Hysterical: A Timeline of Vintage Vibrators
For centuries hysteria was a legitimate and common diagnosis for women who just needed to get laid, or, at the very least, treat themselves to a few mind-blowing orgasms. But since most women in the old-timey days didn't even know they could have...
The Former Civil Rights Activist Who Created the Right to Bear Arms
Don Kates is a Yale-educated lawyer who started his legal career fighting for civil rights in the South during the 1960s. A few years later, however, he ended up at the NRA, defending the Second Amendment and inspiring many of the gun rights mantras...