britain You've met the man designed to survive a car crash, now meet the Natural Born Smoker Rob Beschizza

Science The War Department's 1944 guide to FM radio is still a great explainer Ellsworth Toohey

nostalgia Kansas public library perfectly recreates iconic scenes from The Breakfast Club Jennifer Sandlin

AI I interviewed the AI ghost of a famous dead porn star Thom Dunn

vintage "How to Get Gonorrhea": A trip through 1974's most surreal sex ed filmstrip Popkin

doomsdays Students tackle grim future scenarios in "Are We Doomed?" class Yoy Luadha

conspiracy theory The 2024 Santa Monica Film Festival was chock full of red-pilled conspiracy content Jennifer Sandlin

horror Take a trip to Tom Devlin's Monster Museum Popkin

movies On this day in 1943, the Office of War Information won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Elías Villoro

psa "Don't boil a kettle on a boat" Rusty Blazenhoff

documentaries We Are Many is a documentary focusing on the global anti-war protests in 2003 Elías Villoro

music Animated feature Black is Beltza, Basque music, and the political art of Fermin Muguruza Elías Villoro

reefer madness "High Everybody" PSA warning against marijuana's ability to spark joy Popkin

music Radioactive Tubular Girls: mashup of Kraftwerk, Mike Oldfield and Duran Duran Rob Beschizza

britain How British Intelligence manufactured a Satanic Panic in Northern Ireland Thom Dunn

tabloids The tabloids use news stories to mirror and amplify their own Weltanschauung Peter Sheridan

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History Powerful Iwo Jima WWII footage shot by marines in combat and never seen publicly David Pescovitz

books The National Security Sublime: On the Aesthetics of Government Secrecy Matthew Potolsky

brexit Old British rabies paranoia films Rob Beschizza