RichardFrom the CSI Effect to Making a Murderer: Will True-Crime Docuseries Change How Jurors Think?Vulture - By Kenny HerzogAnyone who tuned in to Netflix’s Making a Murderer, HBO’s The Jinx, or NPR’s Serial podcast probably indulged a fantasy that, had they sat on any of those …
RichardBuilding the atom bomb: the full story of the Nevada Test Siteverified_publisherGuardian US - Laurence TophamThe Nevada Test Site was established a few years after the end of the second world war, against the fear of an all-out nuclear attack from the Soviet Union.
RichardWhat It’s Like to Have ADHD As a Grown WomanNew York Magazine - By Rae JacobsonYears ago, with the start date of a new job closing in, I made the mistake of trying to explain my mounting panic to the guy I was dating at the …
RichardBreathtaking ruins of the Soviet space shuttle programCNNCNN — What was once the gleaming pride and joy of the Soviet space program now lies covered in dirt and bird droppings in a disused hangar in Kazakhstan. With their broken windows, missing tiles and ransacked interiors, these shuttles are a haunting – and fascinating – piece of space history, rarely …
RichardNext Exit, Armageddon: Photos of America's Nuclear Weapons Legacyverified_publisherVICE - Jim Lo ScalzoPhotographer Jim Lo Scalzo explores sites central to the development of American atomic warfare. Sprinkled throughout the back roads of America are the remains of Armageddon. Or what could have been Armageddon had the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union suddenly gone hot. The …