
Jean Paul Sartre’s view of Hell
On this day in 1944 Jean Paul Sartre’s Existentialist play Huis Clos (‘Dead End’) was first performed in Paris. It was a tense time already... Read More

Bertrand Russell’s prison sentence at age eighty-nine
On this day in 1872 English philosopher and Nobel Prize winner Bertrand Russell was born. He won the Nobel Prize for literature after publishing his... Read More

Marie Curie died from radiation sickness
To listen to this post, click here – On this day in 1867 the Polish/French physicist and chemist Marie Curie was born. The only woman... Read More