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Living Underground: Abandoned Atlas Missile Silo
by Josh Clark | September 13, 2011
My bookmarks toolbar menu rules. Case in point: Quigley’s Cabinet. It’s a long-running blog by a lady who has multiple sclerosis and appears to live in Florida. She is into all thing morbid, but is decidedly less gothic than Morbid Anatomy, and Quigley also frequently posts links to articles that are fascinating not for any morbid nature, but because they simply are. Which is how a post on Subterra, a converted missile silo in Kansas, ended up on her site. And that is how I found it. And that’s the end to that lengthy intro.
In (Post) Soviet Russia, Occult Healers Outnumber Doctors
by Josh Clark | December 6, 2010
Russia’s passed some weird benchmark recently. RIA Novosti, the state-owned news agency, reports that a World Health Organization survey found that there are around 800,000 witches and sorcerers operating in Russia today. That’s 160,000 more occult healers than registered physicians, which means that Russia, as the RIA article put it, “has more occult healers than doctors.” That’s that weird benchmark I referred to a moment ago.
Jackson Pollock: More than Just a Tool, a CIA Tool
by Josh Clark | November 8, 2010
The Independent ran a story about fifteen years ago that I missed entirely (thank you for finally enlightening me with a link, LOML) about loathed abstract impressionist painter Jackson Pollock being a propaganda tool of the CIA.
I finally found the reason for Pollock’s inexplicable popularity; he was a tool of the CIA in it Cold War battle to prove to the Soviets that the U.S. wasn’t a cultural wasteland composed of yokels who couldn’t appreciate art.
Google Maps Pops Up Again, This Time in Latin America!
by Josh Clark | November 5, 2010
Google Maps has popped up in my life once more, in the form of an odd little news story out of Central America. It’s very fortunate that the U.S. and U.S.S.R. are no longer using Central American nations as proxy armies to duke out the Cold War any longer because a recent foray by the Nicaraguan military into Costa Rica may have led to a major skirmish. Instead, the president of Costa Rica urged that her countrypeople remain “calm and firm,” reports CNN in the face of what amounts to an invasion.
Study finds Israeli-Palestinian Conflict not One-sided
by Josh Clark | October 8, 2010
One of the more unusual things to come out of the Cold War was the doctrine of mutual assured destruction (MAD). Unusual, insane — one of those really. The MAD doctrine pretty much served as the fulcrum for the precarious balance between the Soviet and American poles and kept one side from annihilating the other.
Nowadays chocolate is popular across the world, but it got its start thousands of years ago in Mesoamerica, where it was much more than a mere sweet or ingredient in desserts. Learn more about the history of chocolate in this podcast.
Project STARGATE may sound like something out of a science fiction novel, but for years taxpayer cash funded experiments with psychic powers. Tune in to learn more about the Cold War psychics — and why some people believe these programs continue today.
During the Cold War, a group of Soviet hikers disappeared in the Ural mountains. When they were finally discovered, it was clear that something had killed them — but what, exactly? Learn more about the incident at Dyatlov’s Pass in this podcast.
It looks a lot like the beneficent and subversive spirit of Hugo Chavez’s annual donation of 100 million gallons of heating oil to impoverished families in the United States for the last four year has spread to Venezuela’s neighbors. Some nations of Latin America are growing increasingly unified in their progressive drug policies recently, and it appears that the changes are, in part, a means of pulling down the pants of the common bully of the region, the United States.
In this episode of Stuff You Should Know, Josh and Chuck discuss nuclear profliferation, nuclear parity and the Cold War strategic doctrine called Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD).
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