Revealed: how the spy agency used unwitting artists such as Pollock and de Kooning in a cultural Cold War

Our digital heritage saved by a few enterprising scenesters. Not everything, but 900gb+ of what amounts to the early steps of pre-blogs and whatever else this new medium is supposed to be about.

“Clear your disk space – this one’s going to be a doozy.”

From the ISU Study:

That each murder costs more than $17.25 million still does not convey the true costs imposed by homicide offenders in the current sample. Since the mean homicide conviction was more than one, the average murderer in these analyses actually imposed costs approaching $24 million. For the offender who murdered nine victims, the total murder-specific costs were $155,457,083!

Via Gizmodo.

Surgeons Domingo Liotta and Denton Cooley placed it into Haskell Carp’s chest on April 4, 1969 in Houston. They removed it 64 hours later when a donor heart became available.