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.
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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.
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The End of Night
Searching for natural darkness in an age of artificial light.
The future looks bright (thanks to light pollution). Read More
The Dyatlov Pass Incident
Donnie Eichar's “Dead Mountain” offers a novel explanation for one of the great unsolved mysteries of Russian history.
In “Dead Mountain,” American film and television producer Donnie Eichar provides a plausible scientific explanation for a mystery that has confounded investigators and inspired speculation for fifty-five years. Read More
A Plea to the Television Gods
Fordlandia
Graeme Obree: Bike Geek
The Up Side of Down (February/14)
The Book of Immortality (December/13)
Churchill’s Bomb (December/13)
