The Big Bang: The day Britain’s money, and the world, changed forever.
On October 27, 1986, something happened in London that gave shape to our modern world.
Retro Book Review: The Case of the Silk King (Choose Your Own Adventure).
In this Choose Your Own Adventure book, you go in search of a silk magnate who disappeared (in real life) in 1967.
Retro Book Review: Ghost Hunter (Choose Your Own Adventure).
Harlowe Thrombey got whacked in book 9 of the CYOA series. Now 43 books later he's back from the dead!
A fine mind has left us: Remembering Vincent Bugliosi, lawyer, historian and logician.
Vincent Bugliosi was courageous, talented, rational, and very, very smart. He will be greatly missed.
Metal for Friday: Iron Maiden “Caught Somewhere in Time” [audio].
The iconic song from one of the truly classic metal albums of the 80s is a great way to start the weekend.
Paradise lost: The Libertarian nightmare of Peter Weir’s “The Mosquito Coast.”
A thoughtful adventure film by Peter Weir has a lot to teach us about the pitfalls of ideological purity.
The last great aviation adventure: The odyssey of the “Rutan Voyager.”
9 days in the air without a bathroom...now that's a world record!
Reel climate: 10 movies you didn’t know were about climate change.
Climate change is inescapable. You can even find it in our most cherished movies.
A retro Halloween movie review: “Gothic” by Ken Russell (1986).
The Frankenstein genesis legend gets a delightfully 80s-horror-movie makeover in this semi-obscure classic.
Metal for Friday: “Turbo Lover” by Judas Priest. [video]
Does anybody remember the controversy when Judas Priest's Turbo album came out in 1986? More than a quarter-century on it seems a bit quaint, [...]