Articles tagged "wwii"

Von Braun escaped Germany with guts and some clever deception.

B.F. Skinner, the psychologist and social philosopher, had an idea about how to bring about world peace. It involved teaching pigeons to guide missiles.

Transformers, the concept, is the defining ontological challenge of our time. Clue, the film, is a definitive text of the American avant-garde. So the problem is not, as various troglodytes might claim, a toy-based movie in the abstract. No, Battlesh…

The video above documents a process that's become common in Germany: getting rid of the thousands of unexploded munitions left over from World War II bombing raids by Allied forces. Once discovered - as one was this past week in the German city of Ko…