The beginning of NOVA: Sinkholes: Buried Alive is like a horror movie. A family is interviewed about one fateful night in their suburban house, where one of the adults of the extended family went down the hallway to his bedroom to go to bed. A short time later, they heard a strange noise, followed by …
When the cruise ship Costa Concordia so spectacularly ran aground and capsized off the coast of Italy in January 2012, it seemed baffling and tragic that 32 people died when the ship was within eyesight of a popular tourist beach. But as you learn more about the scope and size of this massive disaster, it is …
Maybe I wasn’t a normal kid, but in junior high, I remember being obsessed with what has been termed the Crime of the Century. Strangely, the librarian never questioned the fact that this 12-year-old girl kept checking out a book about the 1932 kidnapping of the most famous tot in the country at the time, …