Trial of a sow and pigs at Lavegny. The Rationale Behind the Madness The notion of arraigning a barn swallow or bovine may seem utterly ludicrous today, but to medieval minds steeped in religious doctrine and folklore, it was a […]
Once she became the nominee, I expected Vice President Kamala Harris to win the 2024 presidential election. More exactly, I expected ex-President Donald Trump to lose. What did I get wrong? My expectation was based on three observations and one
Jackson ArnThe New Yorker’s art critic I don’t know what Werner Herzog is up to these days, but if he’s between projects, I humbly suggest that he make a documentary about Luna Luna, the Hamburg amusement park that took more
Text by Tracy Scott Forson Photographs selected by Jeff Campagna Orville Wright, who invented the first flying machine alongside his brother Wilbur, once said, “We could not understand that there was anything about a bird that would enable it to
A ceramic battery manufacturer has unveiled a solid-state battery concept that can be charged from 5% to 60% capacity in just five minutes — giving future electric vehicles (EVs) a 186-mile (300 km) range in the time it takes to
Medieval historians have often downplayed how the First Pandemic, also known as the Justinianic Plague, affected Britain. A new study is challenging this notion, and even suggests that the plague may have struck the British Isles at least twice. Rachel
Italian authorities have recovered several Etruscan antiquities stolen by tomb raiders from a burial site in central Italy. Emanuele Antonio Minerva / Courtesy of the Italian Ministry of Culture Italian authorities have recovered several rare Estrucan artifacts from the third
Episode 120 (The Prairie Chicken in Wisconsin: Highlights of a Study of Counts, Behavior, Turnover, Movement, and Habitat) The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows. Music We move between three
SHOW NOTES: Sources: Hollywood Animal by Joe Esterhas They Can Kill You But They Can’t Eat You by Dawn Steel Imagining the Mulatta: Blackness in U.S. and Brazilian Media Paperback by Jasmine Mitchell, May 25, 2020 Pittsburgh And Dance, by
For nearly thirty years, the South African government held a man it initially labeled prisoner number 46664, the anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela. But in 1994, Mandela transformed from the country’s ‘number one terrorist’ into its first Black president, ushering in
