With Donald Trump’s recent announcement of ‘Space Force’, ‘Tales From the Bottle’ takes a look at one of the United States’ earliest military involvements in the final frontier. “Project A119, also known as A Study of Lunar Research Flights, was a top-secret plan developed in 1958 by the United States […]
This photo conceals a clue to a brutal story of vengeance. Correction: Many of you pointed out that we erroneously used “Russia” and “Russian” interchangeably with “Soviet Union” and “Soviet” in this video. The Soviet Union was a multiethnic federation, and indeed many non-Russians bore the brunt of Hitler’s initial […]
Don’t Act. Just Think. New videos weekly: https://bigth.ink Join Big Think+ for exclusive video lessons from top thinkers and doers: https://bigthink.com/plus/ ———————————————————————————- Philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek has a bone to pick with the PC movement. While he doesn’t buy into the right-wing paranoid view that the politically correct […]
Read the story: https://aperture.gg/blogs/the-universe/the-man-who-accidentally-created-the-cias-mind-control-drug Merch: https://aperture.gg/merch The CIA was convinced that the Soviet Union had discovered a drug or technique to control minds, and as a response, they launched a top-secret program called MK-Ultra. MK-Ultra’s main purpose was to conduct covert experiments centered around behavior modification. The alleged race for […]
The Cuban Missile Crisis began with a photograph. Join the Video Lab! http://bit.ly/video-lab The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world has ever come to all-out nuclear war, and it all started with a photo. On October 15th, 1962, Dino Brugioni, a senior analyst at the newly-formed National Photographic […]
Mao Zedong swimming in a river in 1966 was a big deal. Become a Video Lab member! http://bit.ly/video-lab In 1966, Mao Zedong, China’s communist leader and the founder of the People’s Republic of China, was rumored to be in failing health. The devastating policies of his Great Leap Forward (1958-1962) […]
What killed 9 hikers in 1959? ✉️ Sign up for our newsletter: http://www.vox.com/video-newsletter In February 1959 a group of hikers disappeared in the remote Ural Mountains of Western Siberia. A search party found their tent weeks later, abandoned along with all of their equipment. Frozen bodies were found 1,500 meters […]
For many households, “Do They Know It’s Christmas” is a holiday mainstay. Recorded to raise money for famine relief, it’s regarded as one of the finest episodes of pop music philanthropy. However, a few clicks past the headlines reveals a dark and disturbing underside. What did Band Aid’s money actually […]
Can the US and Russia still collaborate in space? Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don’t miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO The International Space Station has been orbiting above us for the last 20 years. It’s been home to astronauts from more than a dozen different countries — but […]
Some had more fun during history’s deadliest conflict than others. “Koivunen was assigned to a ski patrol on 20 April 1944, along with several other men. Three days into their mission, on March 18th, the group was attacked and surrounded by Soviet forces, from which they managed to escape. Koivunen […]
