How Hitler Played the American Press
Did the AP and other news organizations get tricked into sympathetic coverage of Hitler?
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Summer Camp Has Always Been About Escaping Modern Life
The first summer camps presented themselves as an natural alternative to encroaching industrial society.
Why Did the “Female Viagra” Fail?
Marketers pitched "female viagra" as a win for gender equality. Why is the drug now called a "colossal failure?"
Putting a Price on a Life
If you have a life insurance policy, that means your insurance company pays your beneficiaries when you die, ...
O.J. Simpson: Media Spectacle Then and Now
O.J. Simpson is back in the news, and a whole new journalistic frenzy has begun.
Dr. Nose: Disease-Detecting Animals
Belgian scientists are training rats to detect diseases. Other animals, including dogs, have a history of disease-detection.
Man, Interrupting
Do men interrupt more than women? Why? A look at the research on gender and interrupting.
A Conversation with Alexander Chee
While fact-checking his critically acclaimed novel about an enigmatic soprano of the Paris Opera , Chee happened upon a piece of information on JSTOR he could not ignore.
Who was Max Planck?
Max Planck was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.