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The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski, has been depicted in various artistic works, and inspired popular culture, with movies and TV series centred around his criminal mastermind

Theodore Kaczynski committed 16 bombings from 1978 and 1995, killing 3 and permanently maiming several of his victims.

Years before the Sept. 11 attacks and the anthrax mailing, the “Unabomber’s” deadly homemade bombs changed the way Americans mailed packages and boarded airplanes, even virtually shutting down air travel on the West Coast in July 1995.

Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician who retreated to a dingy shack in the Montana wilderness and ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others, died Saturday.

Book of Books is different from any other I had come across. It is a fascinating treasure trove of literary delights with many illustrations, and a guided tour of rare books, manuscripts and historical artefacts in a single collection.

In 1971, when Daniel Ellsberg arrived at a federal court in Boston, a journalist asked if he was concerned about the prospect of going to prison for leaking a 7,000-page top-secret history of the Vietnam War. Ellsberg responded with a question of his own: “Wouldn’t you go to prison to…

Winter solstice brings the shortest day and longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. It’s a great night to spend reading.

How do scientists know that historical data is appropriate to use?

Henry David Thoreau, the environmental philosopher and author of “Walden”, was a keen observer of seasonal change. In 1862, for example, he wrote in the Atlantic Monthly:

Maine is the most isolated state in the continental US. Here, Amanda Whiting writes about how a place so small came to cast such an imposing shadow over American fiction

Australians have just decided another “climate election”. What this meant, basically, was that we had to choose between two difficult futures. The result has yielded a new mandate for meaningful work on climate policy.