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  • 379 Years Ago, Galileo Went Before the Inquisition (and Science Is Still On Trial)

    It started with the telescope --for Galileo, at least. A couple of lenses together in alignment -- an idea devised in the first years of the 16th century -- allowed the astronomer and mathematician Galileo to stare at the face of the Moon, noting that...

  • 396 Years Ago Today, the Church Told Galileo To Step Off

    In the early 1600s, Galileo was not a very awesome guy in the eyes of the all-powerful Catholic Church. His theory--or the theory he supported--that the Earth revolved around the Sun, and not the other way around, directly went against the holy...

  • Chinga Tu Madre

    Mexican photographer Jose Luis Cuevas has been working on a series of photographs documenting the world of homemade Mexican porn.

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