Boston Marathon bombing
I Stayed up All Night Watching Coverage of the Boston Bomber Manhunt
I was met with a flurry of false reports. Some were just dropped without mention: the suspects jacked a police SUV, possibly another car, and blew something up at Harvard. Other persisted. Was the bomber an Indian-American student who'd gone missing...
Reddit Wants the Boston Bomber's Blood
Only one day after the Boston bombings, a subreddit was formed to collate and analyze photos of the crime scene, expanding to more than 3,000 users in less than half a day. We spoke to Rather_Confused, one of the subreddit's mods, to get a feel for...
Surveying the Chaos at the Boston Marathon Bombing
The aftermath of yesterday’s bombing at the Boston Marathon had resulted, in the words of President Obama, from “an act of terror.” According to a close friend of mine, a local Boston cop who was on the scene, it was “a complete shit show.”
What Happened to Boston's Mobile Phone Networks After the Marathon Bombing?
Were they shut down to save lives? And did it work?