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Gideon Lewis-Kraus

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    Did Lead Poisoning Create a Generation of Serial Killers?

    Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, and many other notorious figures lived in and around Tacoma in the sixties. A new book argues that there was something in the water.
    by Gideon Lewis-Kraus via The New Yorker on June 25, 2025
  • Four mysterious objects spotted in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1952.

    How the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously

    For decades, flying saucers were a punch line. Then the U.S. government got over the taboo.
    by Gideon Lewis-Kraus via The New Yorker on April 30, 2021

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Crowd pointing to UFO over Chrysler Building

How Washington Got Hooked on Flying Saucers

A collection of well-funded UFO obsessives are using their Capitol Hill connections to launder some outré, and potentially dangerous, ideas.
by Jason Colavito via The New Republic on May 21, 2021
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