When President Nixon signed the National Cancer Act many expected quick results, comparing the effort to the one that put man on the moon. After 42 years, what progress have we made? (Source: The New York Times Retro Report)
A Short History of the Morgue at The New York Times
Inside the New York Times photo archives, known as the “morgue,” the filmmaker Katerina Cizek and the archivist Jeff Roth discuss the making of “A Short History of the Highrise.”
Artist Trains Pigeons to Smuggle Cigars Out of Cuba
Duke Riley, a Brooklyn artist, trained 50 homing pigeons to fly from Havana, Cuba, to the Florida Keys carrying cigars and cameras to record the journey.
Biosphere 2: An American Space Odyssey
With dreams of colonizing space, eight people sealed themselves in a glass biosphere in 1991. But they eventually “suffocated, starved and went mad.” (Source: The New York Times)