Doing Selfies in Auschwitz?

Editorial: Understanding Selfies

Architecture and Auschwitz (review essay)

The concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in southern Poland is an example of one of the most purely functional of architectures. Prefabricated horse stables were selected for use as barracks to house the plan capacity of one hundred thousand slave laborers; the simplest and most efficient ovens were constructed to incinerate, at first, the dozens or hundreds who collapsed daily under inhuma...

Opinion: Science in the age of selfies.

A time traveler from 1915 arriving in 1965 would have been astonished by the scientific theories and engineering technologies invented during that half century. One can only speculate, but it seems likely that few of the major advances that emerged during those 50 years were even remotely foreseeable in 1915: Life scientists discovered DNA, the genetic code, transcription, and examples of its r...

Genetics of susceptibility to tuberculosis: Mengele's experiments in Auschwitz.

Great experiments will always be remembered. I highlight an experiment that was conducted during the Nazi regime in Germany. Not only did the experiment fail, it was also linked to fraud and crimes against humanity. This failed experiment will never be forgotten.

[An episode at the Auschwitz concentration camp].