Ernest Withers, a revered civil rights photographer who captured iconic images of Martin Luther King Jr. on the night King was shot in Memphis, actually played a different role the day before: FBI informant. The Commercial Appeal, a newspaper in Memphis, just completed a two-year investigation ... Read more...
Mesmerism in its most common usage today, refers to a person's sexual attractiveness or raw charisma. But the term originally uniquely signified an entirely different referent: a supposed magnetic fluid or ethereal medium that resided in the bodies of animate beings (i.e., those who breathe), as p... Read more...
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Don’t want to hear this? Tough. Grow up. 9/11 Commissioners: • The 9/11 Commission’s co-chairs said that the 9/11 Commissioners knew that military officials misrepresented the facts to the Commission, and the Commission considered recommending criminal charges for such false statemen... Read more...
When the 24 Hour Fitness chain recently installed finger scanners as a way of verifying members' identity, it was a public premiere of sorts for a powerful and fast-expanding technology - and a test of whether consumers will embrace it. The scanners, which came to the chain's 60 Bay Area gyms t... Read more...