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Bombs

The Invisible Wound

Blast, impact, trauma, and everything that comes after traumatic brain injury.

Worth Parker, Dr. Rachel Lance Tasks & Purpose May 2021 30min Permalink

The Warhead and the Well

Tracing an airstrike halfway around the world back to an American bomb factory.

Jeffrey E. Stern The New York Times Magazine Dec 2018 30min Permalink

Crime

The Get-Rich-Quick Scheme That Almost Killed a German Soccer Team

An electrician’s odd plot to make $607,933.50.

Thomas Rogers Businessweek Oct 2018 10min Permalink

Saving Lives With Tech Amid Syria’s Endless Civil War

The Bashar al-Assad regime’s indiscriminate air strikes have terrorized civilians for years. Now a small band of activist-entrepreneurs is building a sensor network that listens for warplanes and warns people when and where the bombs will fall.

Danny Gold Wired Aug 2018 15min Permalink

Crime

Forensic Science Put Jimmy Genrich in Prison for 24 Years. What if It Wasn’t Science?

The many problems with a common forensic technique called “pattern-matching” — comparisons of bite marks, tool marks, hairs, shoe prints, tire tracks, or fingerprints.

Meehan Crist, Tim Requarth The Nation Feb 2018 45min Permalink

How the U.S. Is Making the War in Yemen Worse

Why are we still involved?

Nicolas Niarchos The New Yorker Jan 2018 20min Permalink