by VorJack
My wife picked up Deborah Blum’s The Poisoner’s Handbook recently. I started reading over her shoulder a bit – you know, just to know what my coffee was going to taste like. It’s largely the story of Charles Norris, the first real coroner and toxicologist working for New York city in the [...]
by Shéa Bennett
I recently had a job interview for an IT position with the Church of Scientology.
Let me explain. I wasn’t aware of my potential employer going in. The company in the advertisement was Narconon, who bill themselves as “the world’s most successful drug rehab,” and apparently have been in the business of narcotic rehabilitation [...]
Should drinking alcohol be illegal? Even asking that question today seems absurd, but only 75 years ago it was illegal to drink alcohol in the United States.
I’m talking about Prohibition, of course, which lasted from 1920 to 1933. It was a massive social experiment that failed and is a lesson for us as we think about other [...]