On October 28, 1926, Dr. Allan Craig delivered a speech to the American College of Surgeons. If a 150 lb man was reduced to chemicals, claimed Craig, there would be enough iron to make a ten-penny nail, enough lime to whitewash a chicken coop, and [...]

In October of 1902, the Paris Police called a French criminologist named Alons Beron. Beron investigated a murder in a wealthy neighborhood near the Arc de Triomphe. He found a single fingerprint on a window frame that helped him identify the killer [...]

In December of 1874, John M was staying at a cabin nestled in the Sierra Nevada mountains when a winter storm whipped through the valley. In situations like that, most people seek shelter; John M was not wired that way. His desire was to seek [...]

Right now, you have no sensation of motion. It seems like you’re sitting still, but that, my friends, is an illusion of miraculous proportions because you are on a giant merry-go-round that’s spinning at a miles per hour around its axis. Oh, you’re [...]