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How a Victorian Doctor Called Gustaf Zander Invented the Modern Gym
Before gym selfies and protein powder, a Swedish doctor built machines that exercised patients for them. Gustaf Zander’s nineteenth century system reveals how the modern workout was born from medicine, machines, and office work.
The Mummies of Venzone and the Village That Lived With Its Dead
Hidden beneath a small Italian church, plague victims became perfectly preserved by chance. The mummies of Venzone puzzled scientists, fascinated Napoleon, and were treated as ancestors by locals for centuries. Nature did the embalming, and no one knows how.
Jack “Legs” Diamond and the Myth of the Man Who Would Not Die
Shot more than a dozen times and always walking away, Jack “Legs” Diamond became the most notoriously unkillable gangster of Prohibition. Until one night in Albany in 1931, when his luck finally ran out.
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