Trapped Under the Sea
The inside story of Boston’s Deer Island Outfall Tunnel tragedy.
Lessons learned from a little-known construction accident, which threatened the completion of the world’s longest single-entrance tunnel, as well as a decade-long effort to clean up Boston Harbor.
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Kitty Genovese, 50 Years Later
The murder, the murderer, and how erroneous reporting by the New York Times inspired a sociological theory known as the Bystander Effect—aka Genovese Syndrome.
In “Kitty Genovese,” author Kevin Cook debunks the myth that “38 respectable, law-abiding citizens in Queens watched a killer stalk and stab a woman in three separate attacks in Kew Gardens.”
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Return to Dead Mountain
Did panic-inducing infrasound lead to the deaths of nine Russian hikers at Dyatlov Pass?
Donnie Eichar explains how Kármán vortex street might have created the conditions that led to tragedy on Russia’s Holatchahl mountain. Read More
Plutopia
Kate Brown on Richland and Ozersk, a pair of shiny, happy communities that produced plutonium—and deliberately polluted the environment with radioactive waste.
Fukushima and Chernobyl are household words. Yet the deliberate and decades-long environmental contamination at Richland and Ozersk is no less disastrous. Read More
The Perfect Nazi
Not Cool
Lean Into It
A Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin (March/14)
The Up Side of Down (February/14)
The Book of Immortality (December/13)
