WEIRD HISTORY
The vast majority of high-profile big tech whistleblowers in recent years have been women. Elke Meitzel/Image Source via Getty Images – Francine Berman, Director of Public Interest Technology and Stuart Rice Research Professor, UMass Amherst Jennifer Lundquist, Professor of Sociology, UMass Amherst Published: …
Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev watches the Victory Day military parade at Red Square in central Moscow on 2022 May 09. Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images – By Susanne Sternthal, Lecturer in Post-Soviet Government and Politics, Texas State University Published: 2022 Jun …
Several Pacific nations reportedly want to defer action on the draft agreement or have it amended. Henry Puna (2nd R), secretary general of the Pacific Islands Forum, holds a meeting with Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi (3rd L) in Fiji’s capital city of …
Members celebrate the restoration of lands they had stewarded for thousands of years. Salish Pend d’Oreille elder Stephen Small Salmon expressed hope that the tribes would reclaim Big Medicine, a rare white calf born in 1933. His taxidermied body is at the Montana …
Researchers estimate the city, which features the Mayan Puuc style of architecture, to have been occupied from 600 to 900 AD. The ruins of a Mayan site, called Xiol, have been uncovered on a construction site near Mérida, México. Photograph: Lorenzo Hernández/Reuters – …
“Sowing water” in this mountainous region has been crucial for people, crops, and biodiversity for more than a millennium. Antonio Ortega García adjusts slabs of stone, divering water from the Río Grande (foreground) to an acequia. All Photos by Kira Walker for Atlas …
The Coen brother goes solo to put together a documentary about the shamanic wild man of early rock’n’roll, who reinvented himself as a country and gospel act. Wild man … Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind. Photograph: AP– Peter Bradshaw @PeterBradshaw1 Last modified …
The Moon as seen by the Galileo deep-space probe in 1992. NASA/JPL/USGS – By Michael Irving 2022 May 04 – The Moon may look like a big dry ball, but there’s more water up there than you might expect. In a new study, scientists have …
The headstone of Father Damien, a Catholic saint who was canonized in 2009. Richard A. Cooke III/Corbis Historical via Getty Images – By Mark Lambert, Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago Divinity School Published: 2022 May 06 – On 1865 Jan 03, the Kingdom …
Most of the claims about ‘Hitler’s Jewish blood,’ repeated Sunday by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, arise from the fact that the identity of his paternal grandfather is unknown. The answer to that question seems to have been buried with his grandmother. German …
