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Slinky Remember the days when one of life’s biggest dilemmas centered around the decision of which high-pitched and humanized cartoon character you would watch on Saturday morning, and true happiness could be derived from thrusting a wobbly spring down the stairs? If it weren’t for the clumsiness of one naval engineer, our childhoods may very well have lacked those sweet, metallic memories.
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While working on developing springs that could stabilize sensitive objects stowed on boats in 1943, naval engineer Richard James’ idea for the Slinky hatched as one his springs fell. Read More...
The swastika was a sacred icon of spirituality around the world. Then Heinrich Schliemann came along to usher the symbol toward its Nazi destiny.Wikimedia CommonsHeinrich Schliemann
The swastika remains one of the most recognizable and emotionally-charged symbols in history due of course to its use by the Nazis. But for countless Hindus in India (not to mention other cultures around the world) the symbol has proudly adorned their temples and the statues of their deities for millennia. Read More...
Evil Science Experiments: The Results Of Injecting People With The Ingredients Of Nuclear Bombs What plutonium can do in a nuclear bomb–and this is what was actually injected into subjects’ bodies. Image Source: Wikimedia Commons
In the ’50s and ’60s, there was hardly a quicker way to get your research funded by the U.S. government than to pitch the idea of exposing people (especially minorities) to ridiculous amounts of radiation to see what would happen. Read More...
