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Meehan Crist

Politics Science

Is It OK to Have a Child?

The polar icecaps are melting. Is it OK to have a child? Australia is on fire. Is it OK to have a child? My house is flooded, my crops have failed, my community is fleeing. Is it OK to have a child? It is, in a sense, an impossible question.

Meehan Crist London Review of Books Mar 2020 35min 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