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In 1952, claims that smoking causes cancer caused Kent cigarettes’ to come out with an asbestos filter to protect its smokers.
In 1952, rising public concern over the link between smoking and lung cancer prompted an unexpected—and tragically ironic—response from one major tobacco company. In an attempt to reassure smokers and maintain market share, Kent cigarettes introduced a new “safe” filter made with Micronite, a trademarked material they advertised as a scientific breakthrough in health protection. What they failed to disclose to consumers, however, was that this supposedly protective filter contained asbestos—the very same carcinogenic material later banned from construction and insulation due to its deadly health effects.
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Rod Serling Warned Us About AI in 1964. We Didn’t Listen.
There’s a certain kind of television episode that doesn’t feel old. Not because it aged well, but because it never stopped aging. It keeps mutating, like a radioactive metaphor buried in a salt mine that still leaks into the water supply. That’s what The Brain Center at Whipple’s is.
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‘The Lost German girl’ – A beaten German woman, as she stood on the roadside in Czechoslovakia – she was one of thousands of refugees in the weeks following the end of the war in Europe, c. May – July 1945.
She’s standing on the side of a dirt road. Her clothes are torn. Her face is bruised. Her hair is matted, filthy, falling in clumps. She is not armed. She is not a soldier. She is maybe 16. Maybe younger. And she is utterly alone.
They call her “The Lost German Girl.”
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This September 1862 photo provided by the Library of Congress shows Allan Pinkerton on horseback during the Battle of Antietam, near Sharpsburg, Maryland. Before the outbreak of war, he had founded the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. In 1861, he famously foiled an alleged plot to assassinate president-elect Lincoln, and later served as the head of the Union Intelligence Service — the forerunner of the U.S. Secret Service.
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Nikola Tesla, 1943
They found him alone.
January 8th, 1943. Room 3327 of the New Yorker Hotel. The chambermaid knocked. No answer. She let herself in and discovered the body of a man who had once dreamed of lighting up the entire planet. Nikola Tesla was dead. Eighty-six years old, broke, and virtually forgotten by the world he had helped shape.
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Elbridge Ayer Burbank – Girl with a Candle (1896)
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