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Drawing the Shorter Straw

Visionary Argentine filmmaker Quirino Cristiani created full-length animated films between 1917 and 1931. He has since been all but forgotten.

Written by Marisa Brook • 31 Jul 2018 • Read/Listen →

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Involuntary Indefatigability

Only one fictional character has ever been honoured with a front-page obituary in The New York Times: Hercule Poirot,...

Written by Marisa Brook • 21 May 2018 • Read/Listen →

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The Curse of Konzo

In 1981, an international group of doctors identified the devastating disease behind a perplexing outbreak of paralysis in northern Mozambique.

Written by Matt Castle • 02 May 2018 • Read/Listen →

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A Jarring Revelation

Amanda Theodosia Jones was a 19th-century poet, entrepreneur, and inventor who found inspiration in some unlikely places.

Written by Christine Ro • 30 Mar 2018 • Read/Listen →

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Scraping Bottom

When Germany was divided in two after the Second World War, military leaders recognized the need for liaison between...

Written by Alan Bellows • 19 Mar 2018 • Read/Listen →

Curio:

The Colors of Numbers

Synesthesia is a neurological phenomenon in which certain sensory concepts are strongly linked to each other in seemi...

Written by Jennifer Lee Noonan • 12 Mar 2018 • Read →

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Yankee Swap

One of the more controversial trades in baseball history was announced on 04 March 1973, just before the start of the...

Written by Alan Bellows • 04 Mar 2018 • Read →

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The Mystery Lake of the Himalayas

Nestled in a valley high in the Himalayas in northern India is a small lake named Roopkund, known locally as Mystery...

Written by Erika Nesvold • 19 Feb 2018 • Read/Listen →

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Echoes of NASA

On 13 May 1960, a NASA Thor-Delta rocket carried the agency's new Echo 1 satellite into a 1,000 mile orbit around the...

Written by Alan Bellows • 12 Feb 2018 • Read/Listen →

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Cracking the Case

A lengthy study of 'crack babies' born to cocaine addicts in Philadelphia in the 1980s and 1990s ended in 2013 with a...

Written by Marisa Brook • 06 Feb 2018 • Read →

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