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15 - LBJ's "Jumbo" Johnson
It was a crazy time in America in the 1960s. JFK was assassinated in Dallas, we were entrenched in Vietnam - a war that deeply divided the nation, t…
9 years, 4 months ago
14 - Krampus: The Christmas Devil.
In the mountains of central Europe, jolly old St. Nick doesn’t work alone. He leaves the handling of the naughty list to Krampus - a horned, goat-leg…
9 years, 4 months ago
13 - The Dead Do Tell Tales
Timesucker and British archaeologist Rebecca Pridmore sent me some fascinating articles on what we’ve learned from the excavation of various ancient …
9 years, 4 months ago
12 - Elon Musk's Mars Mission
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk wants to have a million people living on Mars by 2070 and wants to send the first 100 people to permanently live o…
9 years, 4 months ago
11 - Ted Bundy, Real Life Monster
Ted Bundy is perhaps the most disturbing serial killer of the 20th century. Why? For starters, he didn’t look like a serial killer, so you can’t conv…
9 years, 5 months ago
10 - Robots, Artificial Intelligence, & Extinction?
Will we see robots that look, feel, and communicate in such lifelike ways that we won’t be able to tell them apart from other humans in our lifetime?…
9 years, 5 months ago
9 - Corey Haim: Lost Years of the Lost Boy
Corey Haim went one from a teen heartthrob and one of the most bankable child stars of the late 80s to being a junkie and out-of-work actor labeled a…
9 years, 5 months ago
8 - A President, Mole People, and Hollow Earth Theory
John Quincy Adams was the sixth President of the United States, a Massachusetts State Senator, a Harvard professor, the Secretary of State, and a mem…
9 years, 5 months ago
7 - Halloween Origins
What is Halloween? Where does it come from? When did people start asking for candy? When did it become an excuse for women to dress like porn stars??…
9 years, 6 months ago
6 - The Mongol Mass-Beheading of Nishapur
The Mongols sacked many cities over the course of their reign, but perhaps none so brutally as the Persian jewel of Nishapur in 1221. When they were …
9 years, 6 months ago