The story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the 1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child. Following Nim's...
On August 7th 1974, a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire illegally
rigged between New York's twin towers, then the world's tallest buildings. After nearly an hour
dancing on the wire, he was arrested,...
