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Submarine Collisions in Fiction—Do They Occur in Reality?

By Rick Campbell

March 24, 2016

Submarines have been known to collide in fiction, but do they occur in reality? The short answer—yes. I’ll have to credit Wikipedia with a list of the more well-known submarine collisions since 2000: 2001 – USS Greeneville collision with Ehime Maru 2002 – USS Oklahoma City collision with Norwegian tanker Norman Lady 2005 – USS…

The Many Masks of Actors and Spies: Pulling into Berlin Station

By Olen Steinhauer

For the past year, I’ve been wrapped up in a project that, to be honest, has taken a lot more of my time than I suspected it would. It’s a TV show, Berlin Station, that I’ve been creating and writing with the help of a small staff of writers in a room in New York…

Fingerprints 101: Two Doctors, Three Lords, and Twin Criminals

By Dr. Lewis Preschel

May 3, 2011

Fingerprints as forensic science seem routine to the modern crime story fan, because they know humans are born with loops, arches and whorls on their finger pads. But in a true-life manifestation of existential philosophy, these obvious physical markings didn’t exist as forensic evidence until their usefulness was discovered.  The initial classification of fingerprints occurred…

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