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Alexander Zaitchik's new book, Owning the Sun, is a fascinating look at the long, infuriating history of public research being exploited for private profit..
Views 1 Nikola Tesla was a scientist who lived nearly a century ago, born in Serbia in the middle of the night during a thunderstorm on July 10, 1856. Tesla’s interest in electricity was inspired by his mother, who created a small electrical appliance while he was growing up. Tesla was a genius who had a photographic memory and was able to imagine and tweak inventions in his head that were three-dimensional. Tesla also knew eight languages (Anderson, 2017). Tesla moved to America in 1884 to work for Thomas Edison, designing direct current generators. Don’t waste time $35.80 for a 2-page p...
Bush bank tied to Nazi funding Follow Us Kay C. James Question of the Day ASSOCIATED PRESS President Bush’s grandfather was a director of a bank seized by the federal government because of its ties to a German industrialist who helped bankroll Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, government documents show. TOP STORIES Prescott Bush was one of seven directors of Union Banking Corp., a New York investment bank owned by a bank controlled by the Thyssen family, according to recently declassified National Archives documents reviewed by the Associated Press. Fritz Thyssen was an earl...
Stories We Missed in 2020: 150 Years of the Met in 7 Objects What key artworks can tell us about the museum’s historical biases and what’s next for the New York institution ‘150 Years of the Met in 7 Objects’ is part of a series of essays on the stories we missed in 2020. Look out for more of our end of year coverage to follow. This year, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art turned 150. It might have been cause for celebration, were it not for COVID-19. Instead, the museum’s leadership has looked back at its history more critically. Major new works were com...