The LAT has a short, but interesting, article (tied to a book
I swear, I think I saw something very much like the Druzhba Sanatorium being used as the bad guy’s hideout in a James Bond film. As for the Institute of Robotics and Technical Cybernetics…wow.
Meanwhile, by way of Popehat, I discovered this MSNBC article summarizing a study by some folks at Muhlenberg College (in Pennsylvania) involving…well, let’s just say it involves the paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe. I’ll leave it to the curious reader to click through for more details.