Week of April 2, 2018 Archives
RCI -
Other Investigations
Monday, April 2
Fighting Junk Science and Academic Fraud With Software
John Power
,
Undark
Lyme Disease May Be First Epidemic of Climate Change
Mary Beth Pfeiffer
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Aeon
Anatomy of a Bomb Investigation
Ali Watkins
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New York Times
Report: Veterans Affairs Lawyer Helped Wife, Then Lied
Ethan Barton
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Daily Caller
The Eyes Have It: Serial Killer Chic
Tori Telfer
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Racked
MS-13 Gang Informer Faces Deportation, Death
Hannah Dreier
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ProPublica, NY Mag.
Huge Surge in Hijacking of PCs to Mine Cryptocurrency
David Gilbert
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Vice News
Diapers Becoming High-Tech, Unaffordable Luxury
Kathleen McGrory
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Tampa B. Times
Wednesday, April 4
Suicide, Drugs, Diarrhea Claim Lives
Ella Koeze
&
Anna Maria Barry-Jester
,
FiveThirtyEight
America’s Sheriffs Have Great Power, Little Oversight
Alan Greenblatt
,
Governing
Racists Threatening to Take Over Paganism
Sarah Lyons
,
Vice
Feds: Businessmen Lied to Win $200 Million in Gov. Contracts
Thomas Phippen
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Daily Caller
Amid Private Prison Boom, Questions of Violence, Neglect
Timothy Williams
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NYT
Long Campaign to Make Cell Phones Seem Safe
Mark Hertsgaard
&
Mark Dowie
,
Nation
Twitter’s Toxic Bots and Trolls Problem
Austin Carr
&
Harry McCracken
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Fast Company
Hackers Have Attacked Dozens of 911 Call Centers
Jon Schuppe
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NBC News
Thursday, April 5
Why Are Science Papers Still Written on Paper?
James Somers
,
Atlantic
Alaska: Sen. Murkowski Stands in the Vanishing Middle
Susan Dominus
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NYT Mag.
License Plate Surveillance Firm Attacks FOIA Requests
Camille Fassett
,
Motherboard
Tom Steyer, Prog. Activists, Organize ‘Teen’ Anti-Gun Events
Penny Starr
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Breitbart
Unfree Love: Lonelyhearts Rise of Prisoner Pen Pals
Regina F. Graham
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Daily Mail
Goodyear Ignored Deadly Tire Failures for Two Decades
Ryan Felton
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Jalopnik
Friday, April 6
Facebook Seeking Patient Data From Major Hospitals
Christina Farr
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CNBC
Saturday, April 7
Pentagon Spent $60M on Useless Afghan Power Station
Matthew Gault
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Motherboard