Twilight Language: Death at Bridgeville
Loren Coleman notes the symbolic locale of the Pittsburgh gym shooting this week: That’s how a little community outside Pittsburgh called Bridgeville got it’s name, when folks use to meet each other...
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Is this the prof police questioned in Annie Le's murder?
Update: I’ve checked all of the other faculty member and lab web pages at Yale Medical School’s Department of Pharmacology. The lab link from Anton Bennett’s faculty page is dead. None of the...
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Novelist David Liss takes on the Phantom Reporter
David Liss (The Whiskey Rebels and A Conspiracy of Paper) is an amazing novelist. Now David, whom I got to know at Syracuse University in the late 1980′s, is writing comics. His first, the story of the...
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Fat-farming "pishtacos" at work in Peru
Image: Gomez Biggeri. Flickr/CC Another mythical creature, the pishtaco (try not to think, “fish taco”), graduates from the ranks of cryptozoology: …they are half-white ghouls who live in caves, lurk...
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Macs' "Custer" brought low by Capitol Hill foes
Ngozi Pole told me in 2002 (less than a year before he started pilfering from Kennedy’s office, the government alleges) that he had enemies — “trying to ruin (his) reputation” on the Hill. As the sole...
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Swann Security CES theft: Too "good" to be true?
I smell a setup, but I know Swann Security will deny that “Willy Wu” (who is this guy?) wasn’t paid to “rob” its CES booth earlier this month. One thief was either not paying close attention to the...
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Tricorders for cops: NIJ wants 'em
Photo: Mike Seyfang/Flickr CC Think Sipowicz with a hi-tech scanner. The National Institute of Justice is seeking proposals for a device that can immediately scan crime scenes — bodies, suspects, CCTV...
View ArticleAmy Bishop joins rogues' gallery of killer eggheads
In a story about the last time Amy Bishop killed someone, the Times touches on tenure, the “publish or perish” model: The shootings on the university campus opened a window into the pressure-cooker...
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Plot sickens: Bishop a suspected bomber, too
Targeted; Paul Rosenberg received a bomb in the mail from, police at the time suspected, Amy Bishop. Photo: Children's Hospital. UAH alleged shooter Amy Bishop may have had a singular way of settling...
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Israeli cult may be coming apart
It took ten years, but authorities finally got one of this dude’s many wives to testify. All the wives tattooed Ratzon’s name and picture on their arms and the children’s names are all derivatives of...
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