American Tempest bbdown

American Tempest bbdownOn December 16, 1773, an estimated seven dozen men dumped roughly 10,000 worth of tea in Boston Harbor. This symbolic act unleashed a social, political, and economic firestorm throughout the colonies. Combining stellar scholarship with action packed history, American Tempest reveals the truth behind the legendary event and examines its lasting consequence the birth of an independent America.

Sam Kean travels through time with stories of neurological curiosities: phantom limbs

and anticipating the birth of their daughter

his beloved family

a man of enormous means who claims to have been alive for centuries

before "Weekend Update

a foul-mouthed crow is humanity's only chance to survive a zombie apocalypse–think Watership Down meets Dawn of the Dead (Mona Awad

may have looked uncool

The more Ilka digs into her father's past

The secrets of the most influential men and women on the planet come to Jack daily-and his staff of investigators uses the world's most advanced forensic tools to make and break their cases

Do some people cook that stuff

baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom

but one goal was always the same-stay alive