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When Your Daughter's "Friend" Turns Out to Be the Name of a Homeless Shelter

Jan 9, 2026

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8 min read

When Your Daughter's "Friend" Turns Out to Be the Name of a Homeless Shelter

Review of Episode One of Barefoot in the Night: The Search for Emma Fillipoff

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When 34 Experts Aren't Enough: The Trust Crisis That Makes Believing in Aliens Impossible

Dec 18, 2025

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10 min read

When 34 Experts Aren't Enough: The Trust Crisis That Makes Believing in Aliens Impossible

Inside 'The Age of Disclosure’ – a documentary that's really about why we don't believe experts anymore

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Jack Abramoff Got Out of Prison. I Asked Him About Alexander Ovechkin.

Dec 11, 2025

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9 min read

Jack Abramoff Got Out of Prison. I Asked Him About Alexander Ovechkin.

Hockey wasn't his hobby. It was how he bought access to power.

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The Stranger Who Looked Back at Me: Why We Stay Silent When We Think We've Seen a Missing Person

Nov 27, 2025

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10 min read

The Stranger Who Looked Back at Me: Why We Stay Silent When We Think We've Seen a Missing Person

Lessons from Emma Fillipoff's case

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Nov 22, 2025

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4 min read

Introducing Crowdwits: When Can You Trust the Crowd vs. Experts?

The old rules about who to believe are breaking down. A criminologist who studies both crowdsourcing and institutional corruption explores what comes next—without pretending there are easy answers.

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