• Turtleboy Will Not Be Stopped

    A profane blogger believes an innocent woman is being framed for murder. He’ll do anything to prove he’s right—and terrorize anyone who says he’s wrong.

    photo of man wearing white t-shirt with turtle logo and shorts looks out from behind a blue curtain inside a home
    Lila Barth for The Atlantic
  • Fighting the Flu

    “The story of the development of the vaccines for Influenza A is not … a pitched battle, but a long campaign — the slow, bit-by-bit accumulation of data in which one doctor builds upon the laboratory experience of another.” (From 1941)

    During the influenza epidemic, members of the Red Cross Motor Corps, all in uniform with cloth face masks, pose for a portrait with stretchers behind a row of ambulances, St Louis, Missouri, October 1918.
    Library of Congress / Interim Archives / Getty
  • Lessons for Survival

    “Our superiority is in our technology and our productivity and in the science that has flourished and can flourish only in free societies, and in the magic of freedom to arouse the best in men.” (From 1951)

    A black and white photograph of a man setting up an American flag on a New York City sidewalk in 1950
    Elliott Erwitt / Magnum

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