Listen: John Benedict Buescher on the “psychic radio” stations along the Texas-Mexico border in the 1920s (starts at 31:53).
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“The witch has long been a crucible for mainstream society’s darkest fears.” Witches in art.
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“It has 40 pages and it runs out of memory.” Eric Roth wrote the Dune screenplay in Movie Master on MS-DOS.
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Facebook’s danger to the West is well documented, but less known is how it lets the rest of the world drown in misinformation and
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The “strangers might drug your kids’ Halloween candy” meme is mostly an urban legend. There’s a 1959 incident involving a dentist who handed out 450 pieces of candy-covered laxatives to trick-or-tr…
According to epidemiologists, one of the biggest health risks in James Bond movies is having sex with 007.
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“Everything present is made of the past.” Sandra Newman on how every house is a haunted house.
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Some early 20th century autochrome photographs via the Eastman Museum.
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