Boiler in the Abyss
A massive iron cylinder on a video screen, sitting in silence on the seafloor.
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The Eye Nobody Expected
A sharp eye, white and hollow, staring up from an ocean that wasn’t supposed to produce one. On March 26, 2004, the MODIS instrument aboard NASA’s Terra satellite photographed a textbook hurricane…
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Six Hundred Holes, One Daring Flight
Orange foam, pocked with hailstone craters. On May 8, 1999, a storm crossed Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center and punched more than 650 divots into the insulation wrapping Discovery’s external…
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The Odor Trapped in Apartment 213
A pay phone on 25th Street, close to two in the morning.
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The String Around His Wrist
A shopping cart with wooden shelves where the wire baskets should have been.
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Your voice, but not your words
A voice that was not a voice filled the hearing room. It carried the cadence and grain of Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, trained on recordings of his own floor speeches, but no human…
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The Orange Canvas: 190th Fighter Squadron Friendly Fire Incident
The orange panels were unmistakable. Affixed to the top of every vehicle in the four-strong patrol, they broadcast a single message in the visual language of military identification: friendly forces,…
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Cold Water, Clear Decisions
A white fuselage sliding low over the George Washington Bridge, engines silent. The shadow crossed the steel cables and dropped toward the river, and then the belly of the Airbus hit the water near…
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