Microkhan by Brendan I. Koerner

Entries Tagged as 'reporting'

Meteoritics Gumshoeing

October 3rd, 2022 · Comments Off on Meteoritics Gumshoeing

The Nakhla meteorite is one of the most famous objects to ever smash into this planet of ours. Originally produced by a Martian volcano some 1.3 billion years ago, the meteorite disintegrated over Egypt in 1911, producing at least 40 individual shards that currently reside in a range of museums. Locals who witnessed the event […]

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Life in the Bubble

February 19th, 2013 · Comments Off on Life in the Bubble

The adulation accorded Lawrence Wright’s Going Clear motivated me to look up the very first Scientology exposé I can remember: Richard Behar’s 1991 Time investigation, which irked the Church to no end. That piece made me a lifelong fan of Behar, whose meticulous approach to reporting is something I’ve sought to emulate in my own […]

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Speed Above All

April 20th, 2012 · Comments Off on Speed Above All

I recently spent the better part of a day trying to verify a single, rather insignificant fact for my next book—namely, whether an interviewee’s claim to have received a certain model of Omega watch in early 1978 jibed with Omega’s production schedule. (It did.) Having expended way too much mental bandwidth to accomplish that one […]

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