This non-stop video shows 297 frames from the Mars Descent Imager aboard NASA’s Curiosity rover as it descended to the surface of Mars. These thumbnail images were received on Earth on August 6, 2012, and cover the last two and a half minutes of descent. Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) is a robotic space probe mission […]
Henry Demarest Lloyd was a progressive reporter that worked for the Chicago Tribune, from 1872 until 1885. Lloyd is well known for his searing attacks on unbridled corporate power, and his most famous masterpieces were against the oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller, Sr. One such piece was published in The Atlantic (Monthly) — “The Story […]