Science In 1978, a physicist took a particle accelerator beam through his brain and went back to work Ellsworth Toohey

History A stunt pilot doing loops around the Soviet propaganda megaplane crashed into it, killing 45 Ellsworth Toohey

russia Russia has 44 secret cities with 1.5 million people that don't appear on public maps Ellsworth Toohey

Space Two Italian brothers claimed to have recorded dying Soviet cosmonauts that Moscow erased from history Ellsworth Toohey

literature "If you were to recite a single page, dogs would drop dead" — a review of the most boring book in the world Mark Frauenfelder

Soviet Union Nine experienced hikers chose death in -40°F weather over whatever terrified them inside their tent Ellsworth Toohey

obituaries RIP Boris Spassky: "one of the greatest chess players of the Soviet era and the world, but also a true gentleman" Ellsworth Toohey

Science World's deadliest spot: the horror of Lake Karachay Ellsworth Toohey

happy mutants 20th Century Men brilliantly flips the Cold War on its head, with superheroes Thom Dunn

Soviet Union The Soviet Union's TOPGUN counterpart Andrew Yi

CIA CIA releases new documents about Russian telepathy experiments in the 60s Thom Dunn

graphic design These weird old Soviet anti-alcohol posters are wild Thom Dunn

toys Check out this 1931 Soviet guide to turning potatoes into toys Popkin

mario Watch the Super Mario Bros teach Mikhail Gorbachev how to make pizza Thom Dunn

mistakes Soviet Lord of the Rings Rob Beschizza

Soviet Union A too-typical tragedy of science in the Soviet Union Miss Cellania

Soviet Union The great African American escape to Soviet Russia Miss Cellania

Soviet Union Waiting for the American Khrushchev: Who will deliver the "Cult of Personality" speech to Americans? Mark Frauenfelder

video games You can now play the unauthorized Indiana Jones video game created by Czechoslovak protestors in the 80s Thom Dunn

television The time Mikhail Gorbachev starred in a Pizza Hut commercial David Pescovitz