These stunning pictures of Paris in the 1960s reveal the world's most glamorous city in its both coolest and most tumultuous decade.Not unlike its Western “great power” counterparts, 1960s France was a time of economic gains and social upheaval. Under the presidency of Charles de Gaulle, the country rebuilt itself from the destruction wrought by World War II, becoming more prosperous and less reliant on countries like the United States along the way. Read More...
Wanna make friends but are bad at small talk? Bone up on some science and impress your soon-to-be significant other at a party with these amazing chemical reactions.Source: Cambridge
The world chemists live in can be a strange and terrifying place. Old-timey cartographers used to place dragons over the unknown lands on their maps. Any scientist doing research is operating on the border between the known and unknown worlds, and what lurks in the undiscovered country is sometimes found to breathe fire and—shed its skin? Read More...
The ‘Doodler’: The California Serial Killer Who Has Never Been Caught Public DomainA composite sketch of the so-called Doodler from 1974.
Between January 1947 and September 1975, a killer stalked gay neighborhoods in San Francisco. Dubbed the “Doodler” because he often sketched a picture of his victims — then used the sketch as a pickup line — this mysterious killer murdered six men.
“He’d pick a guy somewhere at the bar, he’d sit at the table, he’d sketch them, he was a good artist, so then he would walk up to the guy and say like my doodle? Read More...
