After World War II, certain branches of the U.S. military and spy communities developed a curious interest in the occult. As journalists Jon Ronson documented in The Men Who Stare At Goats and Annie Jacobsen recently revealed in Phenomena, the Pentagon has long had an interest in harnessing the supernatural to... Read more
Forty-Five Seconds
Uncategorized January 18, 2016
Forty-five seconds of swirling dust was all it took to kill two U.S. Marines and injure 20 other service members. On May 17, 2015, a Marine Corps V-22 Osprey tiltrotor — a $70-million hybrid aircraft that takes off like a helicopter but cruises like an airplane thanks to its... Read more