Blanche Dumas: The woman with three legs, four breasts, and two vaginas
The times aren’t much better today… But they are better.
Science
Did Thomas Edison really kill an elephant to spite Nikola Tesla?
Tech barons really have always been the worst.
How Frances Glessner Lee’s blood-splattered studies of death changed the world of forensic science
Nicknamed the ‘Mother of Forensic Science’.
That time two scientists killed an elephant with a massive overdose of LSD because…science
There are times when the best advice is ignored by those it’s intended to help. If only Tusko the elephant had taken the hint from…
Serge Gainsbourg’s pop art science-fiction cartoon ‘Marie Mathématique’
Incroyable! Hosting the legendary French pop show Dim Dam Dom in 1965, Sandie Shaw introduces the first installment of “Marie Mathématique,” an animated short made…
Comic books & science fiction: ‘Flying Saucer Attack’ collects the Rezillos’ complete recordings
Sire’s “Plundering the Vaults” reissue series got to the Rezillos in 1993, as if in karmic compensation for my first year of high school math…
Paperback to the Future: Best of British science-fiction covers from the 1950s
The back story of Britain in the fifties reads like the checklist for a Star Wars script. The war is over, the Empire is dying…