World’s Strangest

So let’s say it’s 1947, you’re the War Assets Administration, and you’ve got 30,000 pounds of spare metallic sodium from WWII on your hands. It’s too dangerous to transport — anyone who has taken high school Chemistry knows what happens if this stuff gets wet — so no commercial railway or trucking company will [...]

During president Richard Nixon’s administration, he and his staff compiled a list of political enemies. How well do you know (or remember) this list? Take the challenge in today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss. My memory isn’t what it used to be; I only scored 50%. Link

Dorothea Lange captured some of the iconic images of the Great Depression.  As such she became one of the founding figures of the golden age of American photojournalism.  From sharecroppers to the Salvation Army, she recorded the times as they were then – and they were pretty harsh if the truth be told. Lange took to [...]