Lists and Stories

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  9 Modern Corporate Criminals This list discusses some of the most infamous corporate criminals of the 20th and 21st centuries, in chronological order of the crimes for which they are notorious. list, corporations, crime, fraud, environmental crime, pollution, manslaughter, obstruction of justice, Enron, Big Tobacco, Philip...
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  Molecular Machines: Making for the Future How small are the smallest machines? Put simply, they are almost unimaginably tiny. Thanks to breakthroughs in the field of mechanical bond chemistry—the study of physical attachments (as opposed to chemical bonds) that exist between interlocked molecules—the smallest machines now possible measure...
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  Moon Landing: Just the Facts What you need to know about the 1969 U.S. Moon landing. Companion, astronomy, space travel, Moon, Moon landing, Apollo, space race, Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11, space, NASA, U.S....
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  Rosa Parks, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the Birth of the Civil Rights Movement On the evening of December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African American seamstress and civil rights activist living in Montgomery, Alabama, was arrested for refusing to obey a bus driver who had ordered her and three other African American passengers to vacate their seats to make room for a...
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  Mount Tambora 200 Years Later April 5, 2015, marks 200 years since the beginning of the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history. The catastrophic blast that blew off the top of the volcano—killing tens of thousands of people on the island of Sumbawa and in the surrounding region and bringing about the “year without a...
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  “Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!”: Reagan’s Berlin Speech The Berlin Wall was erected by communist East Germany and the Soviet Union in 1961 to keep skilled East German workers and intellectuals from fleeing to West Berlin (an urban enclave administered by the United States, Great Britain, and France). By the 1980s it had become a symbol of the tense...
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  Murder Most Horrid: The Grisliest Deaths of Roman Catholic Saints Beheading, stoning, crucifixion, burning at the stake: In the annals of Roman Catholic saints, those methods of martyrdom are rather horrifically commonplace. There are hundreds of Catholic martyrs, put to death for their faith, but a few stories (some of which are likely only legends) stand out as...
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  List of Musical Acts That Scored 10 #1 Hits Landing a number-one hit on Billboard magazine’s Hot 100—the premiere pop singles chart in the United States—is by itself a remarkable achievement. A handful of recording artists, however, have managed the feat at least 10 times since the 1950s, when the chart originated. As you might expect, the...
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  National Gun Violence Awareness Day A broad coalition of U.S. public health, education, and advocacy groups are marking June 2 as the first annual National Gun Violence Awareness Day. The date was chosen to honor Hadiya Pendleton, a Chicago teenager who was shot and killed in January 2013. Today would have been her 18th birthday....
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  National Women’s History Month 2016 For too long, women—apart from the likes of Hatshepsut and Cleopatra—have been granted only a marginal place at the table. “Common” women—scientists, doctors, teachers, artists, activists, the list goes on—have played at least as important a part in human history as men. Since the U.S. Congress...
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  Navajo Code Talkers Infographic The Navajo code talkers were Native American men serving as U.S. Marines in the Pacific theater of World War II who used their native language to foil the Japanese military’s monitoring of vital communications. By maintaining crucial radio contact on the battlefield, they played an important role...
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  15 Nelson Mandela Quotes Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) was a South African black nationalist who spent 27 years in prison for fighting against the country’s discriminatory apartheid system of racial segregation. His negotiations in the early 1990s with South African Pres. F.W. de Klerk helped bring an end to apartheid and...
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  Neo-Impressionism: What Was the Point? Neo-Impressionism, literally “new Impressionism,” was an avant-garde art movement that fell under the larger Post-Impressionism umbrella. It emerged in reaction to what was viewed as the overly free and spontaneous painting practices of the Impressionists and rooted itself in a methodical and...
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  Nerd Nostalgia: 7 Classic Video Games to Know Video games are currently a billion-dollar industry, with games available for everything from your phone to your home computer and gaming consoles. Popular gaming titles have spawned franchise tie-ins such as movies, comics, and other media. Games weren’t always this popular or widespread, however....
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  New Seven Wonders of the World In 2000 a Swiss foundation launched a campaign to determine the New Seven Wonders of the World. Given that the original Seven Wonders list was compiled in the 2nd century BCE—and that only one entrant is still standing (the Pyramids of Giza)—it seemed time for an update. And people around the world...
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  The New Space Race In the first decades of the 21st century, a new space race emerged between India, China, and Japan. This infographic shows where the missions went or are planned to go and a timeline of past and future missions. Spotlight, new space race, infographic, Earth, Mars, Moon, asteroid, China, India,...
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  Nikola Tesla’s Weird Obsession with Pigeons Nikola Tesla was a Serbian American engineer and physicist known for his groundbreaking work in electric power. He is considered a genius, with numerous patents to his name, but he had an eccentric side that many people found difficult. Among Tesla’s quirks was his fondness for pigeons. When living...
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  How the Normandy Invasion Happened: Infographic Overview This infographic provides an overview of the Normandy Invasion, also called Operation Overlord or D-Day, which was launched on June 6, 1944, during World War II. The largest seaborne invasion ever, the operation involved the simultaneous landing of U.S., British, and Canadian forces on five...
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  Nostradamus and His Prophecies Nostradamus was a 16th-century seer. He and his prophecies—revered by some, ridiculed by others—are still well known today, centuries after he lived, and continue to be the subject of debate. Nostradamus was born in France in 1503. He first worked as a physician and began his medical practice in...
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  Nuclear Exclusion Zones Humans have colonized nearly every corner of planet Earth, and each day more and more land once thought inhospitable or unusable is being utilized for transportation, agriculture, and buildings. By the early 21st century, it seems only the highest mountain peaks and the most remote parts of ice...