Malcolm is the ruler of a Eurasian state in AD 1000. Which one of the following inventions would you choose to have? Gunpowder, printing press, or the germ theory of disease? Germ theory of disease. I don't know what I think about that. So my choice is gunpowder so that I can turn my weapons on my own people and preserve myself in power. Consonplating how the past shapes our present day reality.
Lester Glick’s year in the Minnesota Starvation Experiment cost him his hoped-for career and also left him with an eating disorder for the rest of his life. But like many of the other volunteers, he said he would have done it again in a heartbeat. Revisionist History explores the scientific legacy of this experiment, and asks whether it’s time to reimagine our understanding of sacrifice.
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