Posts by Sangria Lester

Photograph of a supposed iron maiden from the Lubuska Land Museum in Zielona Góra, Poland, and an illustration by the Austrian artist Vinzenz Katzler from 1868 depicting a man being forced into an iron maiden (Note: Children or sensitive individuals should avoid this article.) Across Europe, it’s not uncommon to find museums of torture stocked…

The GOP has a history of taking Martin Luther King Jr.’s words out of context to justify their own racist policies. Jan 20, 2023 In this 1965 photo, President Lyndon B. Johnson discusses the Voting Rights Act with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images U.S. Rep. Chip Roy of Texas is just the latest…

Dr. Kwane inspects a homeless woman’s dog – credit The Street Vet There aren’t many willing to voluntarily go out to spend the day on Skid Row, and even fewer with the goal of giving away free stuff, but Dr. Kwane Stewart, also known as “The Street Vet” is nearly famous because of it. Kwane…

In the summer of 2020, when protests against police brutality were taking place in Portland and Salem, Oregon, Julianne Jackson was there with the crowds on the streets, chanting for justice. But something nagged at her. Jackson, a Black woman with a loud voice and an infectious laugh, began to feel that she was not…

SentiV robot – credit: Meropy Most people imagine robots at work in a factory, but there’s no less innovation going on at the farm—take this spoke-wheeled robot plant nurse who can inspect 50 acres of row crops for disease, pests, or other issues. Trundling through fields a little like a tumbleweed, the SentiV scouting robot…

Jake Poznak, co-owner of Moonrise Izakaya, a Japanese restaurant on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, could have easily been a statistic of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the National Restaurant Association, more than 100,000 restaurateurs across the country had to close their businesses because of the pandemic. After the first wave, when restaurants began to reopen,…

For 10 Years, An Alabama Farmer Secretly Paid People’s Pharmacy Bills January 20, 2023 Now, his story can be told. An Alabama man has been anonymously paying for his neighbors’ pharmacy bills for more than a decade. Hody and Martha Jo | Credit: Tania Nix Hody Childress, a farmer and…

Released by Yamagata University In a major archaeological discovery, a team of Peruvian and Japanese researchers have discovered 168 new geoglyphs in the ancient Nazca Plain in Peru, near to the enormous glyphs that remain as mysterious as they are famous. Found during 2 years of aerial surveys, their discovery led to the creation of…

Raised in a refugee camp, Paul Sein Twa is one of Myanmar’s leading environmental defenders. Despite living in a conflict zone, he has been instrumental in protecting swathes of his homeland Indigenous leaders across the globe are winning gamechanging environmental victories against the odds. In our ‘guardians of the wild’ series, we hear from those…

15 years ago today, Breaking Bad premiered on AMC. Created by Vince Gilligan and starring Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul, the show became for basic cable television what the Sopranos had become for premium cable—a smash hit crime drama that created a massive following and several spinoff series. Since its conclusion, the show has been lauded by…