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2026 14

  1. The FlyDubai Near Miss Was a Nightmare and a Miracle
  2. Marine One’s Near-Miss Incident Was Scarier Than It Looks
  3. Wheels Up: Why So Many CEOs Become Pilots
  4. The Mysterious Case of the JetBlue Flight That Went Into Free Fall
  5. A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame?
  6. The white-knuckle air show where landing 10,000 planes is just the start
  7. A New Clue From the Night MH370 Vanished May Radically Change the Search for the Missing Plane
  8. Can the Aral Sea be reborn?
  9. A Manned NASA Rocket Is About to Take Off for the Moon. There Are Questions About Its Safety.
  10. ‘Love Story’ Got JFK Jr’s Final Flight Wrong in So Many Ways
  11. Here’s How the Fatal La Guardia Collision Happened, Second by Second
  12. We’re in a New Kind of War
  13. The Latest MH370 Search Implies Something Unusual Happened
  14. The Last Flight of PAT 25

2025 25

  1. Is ChatGPT Conscious?
  2. Air Travel Will Get Worse Before It Gets Better
  3. Get Ready for an Air Travel Meltdown
  4. Will Air-Traffic Controllers End the Government Shutdown?
  5. Is Elon Musk’s Starship Doomed?
  6. The Debate Over the Air India Crash: Was It Suicide?
  7. Six Books to Read Before You Get to the Airport
  8. Can the U.S. Destroy Iran’s Deepest Nuclear Bunker?
  9. ‘No One Wants to Think That Their Pilot Is Weird’
  10. Can Nathan Fielder Save You From Dying in a Plane Crash?
  11. You’ll Pay for the Upgrades to Trump’s Luxury 747 From Qatar
  12. Who Attacked Flights Near the White House?
  13. Exploding Cargo. Hacked GPS Devices. Spoofed Coordinates. Inside New Security Threats in the Skies.
  14. Why a Helicopter Broke Apart Over the Hudson River
  15. Would You Buy a Fighter Jet From Donald Trump?
  16. Why Air Travel’s Getting Dangerous
  17. Why This Search for MH370 Could Be Different
  18. How Can a Plane Suddenly Nose-Dive?
  19. The D.C. Plane Crash Is No Mystery
  20. American Airlines Plane Crash Ends U.S. Aviation’s Safety Streak
  21. A Private Jet Full of Vegas Revelers Never Made It Home. Would They Have Been Safer Flying Commercial?
  22. What It’s Like to Be a Waterbomber
  23. Keep Calm and Drone On
  24. The New Threat to Los Angeles Firefighters: Drones
  25. How Do You Stop a Hurricane Made of Fire?

2024 44

  1. OpenAI is Intel
  2. 5 Unanswered Questions About the South Korea Plane Crash
  3. Mysterious Drone Swarms Won’t Always Be This Weird
  4. How Luigi Mangione Probably Gave Himself Away
  5. How Trump Will Change America This Time
  6. The CEO Shooting Has Corporate America Panicking
  7. How Trump Goes to Prison
  8. Hurricane Milton Will Be Bad. The Next One Might Be Even Worse.
  9. The Flying Car is Finally Here. It’s Slightly Illegal
  10. The Real Goal of Israel’s Exploding-Pager Attack on Hezbollah
  11. The Creepy Coincidences of the Billionaire Superyacht Sinking
  12. Cabin Pressure
  13. For a Billionaire, Trump Flies a Crappy Plane
  14. The New Age of Sail
  15. “Deep Dive: MH370” is Back!
  16. Deep Dive MH370 #31: Season 1 Finale
  17. DW News: Boeing denies allegations over production faults
  18. Deep Dive MH370 #30: A 777 Pilot Weighs In
  19. Sherwood: Can China profit from Boeing’s woes?
  20. Deep Dive MH370 #29: Motive
  21. New York: Boeing Nosedive
  22. New York: Have We Already Found Alien Life?
  23. Deep Dive MH370 #28: Is WSPR Real?
  24. A Reader Writes: A Memory of John Graybill
  25. National Geographic Adventure: Last Man Flying
  26. Deep Dive MH370 #27: Landing MH370
  27. Deep Dive MH370 #26: Restarting the Search
  28. New York: The Sea Creatures That Opened a New Mystery About MH370
  29. Deep Dive MH370 #25: Breakthrough Part 2
  30. Deep Dive MH370 #24: Breakthrough Part 1
  31. Deep Dive MH370 #23: The Flight Simulator
  32. Deep Dive MH370 #22: The Hacking of MH370
  33. Deep Dive MH370 #21: The Mayor of MH370
  34. Deep Dive MH370 #20: Lepas Don’t Lie
  35. Deep Dive MH370 #19: The Impossible Drift
  36. New York: ‘I Almost Sound Like a Crazy Person, But I Think It Is a Superconductor’
  37. Deep Dive MH370 Episode 18: The Flaperon
  38. New York: Who Will Rid Us of This Cursed Plane?
  39. Deep Dive: MH370 Episode 17: Strangeness
  40. New York : Alaska Airlines Inflight Blowout Raises New Doubts About 737 MAX
  41. Deep Dive: MH370 Episode 16: Debris
  42. New York: Everyone Could Have Died in the Tokyo Airport Crash. Here’s Why They Didn’t.
  43. New York: Air Travel Is Not Ready for Electronic Warfare
  44. Deep Dive: MH370 Episode 15: Seabed Search

2023 35

  1. Deep Dive: MH370 Episode 14: Another One
  2. Deep Dive: MH370 Episode 13: North
  3. Deep Dive: MH370 Episode 12: Descent
  4. Deep Dive MH370: Episode 11: Routes
  5. Deep Dive: MH370 Episode 10: The Vulnerability
  6. Deep Dive: MH370 Episode 9: The Pilot
  7. Deep Dive: MH370 Episode 8: Surface Search
  8. New York: The Tunnel War
  9. Deep Dive: MH370 Episode 7: Frequency
  10. New York: How Long Can Gaza Survive Without Water?
  11. New York: Why NASA Wants Your UFO Videos
  12. Behind the Scenes on “Deep Dive: MH370”
  13. Deep Dive: MH370
  14. New York: F35 Fighters Are Supposed to Disappear — Just Not Like This
  15. New York : In Russia, No One Is Safe in the Air
  16. New York: The Floating Speck That Promised to Change the World
  17. New York: Could Trump Get Tossed Off 2024’s Ballots?
  18. New York: The Airstocracy: Six things to know about flying with the superrich
  19. New York: The Titanic Sub Passengers Probably Died Days Ago
  20. New York: Deep-Sea Search Expert Is Aboard Missing Titanic Submersible
  21. New York : What Wildfire Smoke Does to the Human Body
  22. New York: When Flying Private Kills
  23. New York: Why Elon Musk’s SpaceX Doesn’t Mind Its Rocket Blew Up
  24. Sydney Morning Herald: Everyone will sound like a conspiracy theorist unless we find MH370
  25. Businessweek: Paris’s Air Taxi Stations Could Be Ready Before the Taxis Are
  26. Video: MH370 Viewer Questions with Sarah Wynter
  27. New York: MH370 Is a Cold Case. But It Can Still Be Solved.
  28. Tudum: Nearly a Decade Later, Why Looking for MH370 Still Matters
  29. Businessweek: Spy Balloons Are the Slow and Silent Future of Surveillance
  30. Netflix releases trailer for “MH370: The Plane That Disappeared”
  31. The Brian Lehrer Show: Mystery Objects in the Sky
  32. New York: Understanding the UFO War
  33. Businessweek: Puddle Jumpers Point the Way to Greener Aviation
  34. New York: Why Air Travel Melted Down…Again
  35. New York: America’s Population Could Use a Boom

2022 14

  1. Slate: Is Elon Musk Right That Flight Tracking Is an Invasion of Privacy?
  2. New York: Do You Have a Right Not to Be Lied To?
  3. Businessweek: The Golden Era of AI Chess Makes Things Tricky for Players
  4. New York: Has Long COVID Always Existed?
  5. New York: The Eternal Disappointment of the Return of Supersonic Travel
  6. New York: What Happened to Paxlovid?
  7. New York: The Hunt for the Butchers of Bucha
  8. New York: The Superyacht Market Just Lost Some of Its Best Customers. It Doesn’t Care.
  9. New York: Is the U.S. Facing Another COVID Wave?
  10. New York: The DIY Intelligence Analysts Feasting on Ukraine
  11. Putin’s War Isn’t Just in Ukraine. It’s in America, Too
  12. NBC Nightly News: South Beach Helicopter Crash
  13. New York: What to Expect From the Variants to Come
  14. New York: 5G Will Not Make Your Plane Fall Out of the Sky

2021 21

  1. New York: Ian Urbina’s Perfect Storm: Did a journalist get into the music business to help the oceans or help himself?
  2. Vanity Fair: Inflation Tarnation! Inside the Supply-Chain Snafu That Could Wreck Your Holiday Plans
  3. Businessweek: When Shipping Containers Are Abandoned, the Cargo Becomes a Mystery Prize
  4. New York: ‘It Was Weird and Culty’: Carlos Watson’s Mismanagement of Ozy
  5. Men’s Journal: Tether Is a Trail of Shady Deals and Shattered Promises. Too Bad Cryptocurrency Now Depends on It
  6. New York: There’s a Vaccine for Lyme Disease. So Why Can’t We Get It?
  7. New York: How to Decipher the Pentagon’s UFO Report
  8. New York: Why Belarus Grounding of Ryanair Flight Broke International Law
  9. New York: How to Make Carbon-Neutral Gasoline Out of Thin Air
  10. New York: The Pandemic’s Lethal Twilight
  11. New York: Why the Second COVID Shot Makes You Miserable
  12. New York: So You’ve Been Vaccinated. When Are You Safe?
  13. New York: The Story of One Dose
  14. Why Were the Ukrainians Aboard MH370? UPDATED
  15. New York: Why Do Boeing 777 Engines Keep Exploding?
  16. New York: Ancient 777 Strews Debris Over Colorado
  17. Take Two Radio Interview
  18. New York: Transportation Authority Finds Pilot at Fault in Crash That Killed Kobe Bryant
  19. Vanity Fair: Kobe Bryant’s Tragic Flight
  20. New York: Why Has America’s Vaccination Drive Suddenly Stalled?
  21. New York: Two-Mile Nosedive by a Boeing 737 in Indonesia As Yet Unexplained

2020 24

  1. New York: The Vaccine Arsenal That Will Win the War on COVID
  2. Will Trump Face Criminal Charges?
  3. New York: Michael Cohen on How ‘Monster’ Trump Will Undermine Biden
  4. New York: For Trump, the Most Dangerous Covid Phase Lies Ahead
  5. New York: Trump’s COVID Case Could Be Mild or Fatal. Here Are Signs to Watch For.
  6. New York: Times’ Trump Tax Scoop Doesn’t Prove Criminality. But Does it Point the Way?
  7. New York: The People v. Donald J. Trump
  8. GQ: What It Will Take to Get to a Vaccine
  9. Vanity Fair: The Dangers of Trump’s ‘Warp Speed’ Vaccine Race
  10. New York: Safe Exit: The Risk-Mitigation Guide to Life After Quarantine
  11. New York: We Might Never Get a Good Coronavirus Vaccine
  12. Vanity Fair: Experts: Trump’s Touting of an Untested “Game Changer” Coronavirus Drug Is Dangerous
  13. New York: How the Coronavirus Could Take Over Your Body (Before You Ever Feel It)
  14. New York: Kobe Bryant Pilot Deliberately Broke Flight Rules
  15. Vanity Fair: The Dangers of Flying Rich
  16. New York: Kobe Bryant’s Helicopter Likely Succumbed to Well-Known Danger
  17. New York: Who’s Behind Those Mystery Drone Swarms? An Investigation
  18. Vanity Fair: How Trump’s Iran War Bluster Paved The Way for the Ukrainian Airliner Shoot-Down
  19. New York: It Sure Looks Like the Ukrainian 737 May Have Been Accidentally Shot Down in Iran
  20. New York: About Those Mystery Drone Swarms Over Colorado…
  21. New York: Boeing Finally Ousts Hapless CEO for 737 MAX Debacle
  22. New York: Boeing’s 737 Max Was a Disastrous Error. So Why Is the Company’s Stock Still Going Up?
  23. Medscape: US Air Ambulances: Expensive, Risky, and Regulation-Averse
  24. OneZero: Don’t Let Boeing Off the Hook for the 737 MAX Disasters

2019 16

  1. OneZero : The Mystery Behind the Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight Isn’t Solved Yet
  2. MH17: Russia Pwned the West
  3. Businessweek : Underwater Drones Nearly Triple Data From the Ocean Floor
  4. MH370 Passenger’s Daughter: “The Evidence is That He is Not Dead” UPDATED
  5. New York: How Yesterday’s Aeroflot Disaster Echoes the 737 Max Crashes
  6. New York: Is the Boeing 737 Max Worth Saving?
  7. MH370 As Stage Magic
  8. New York: The Recent Deadly Boeing Crash No One Is Talking About
  9. New York: After 2 Deadly Crashes, Is It Safe to Fly on a 737 Max?
  10. Who Is Blaine Alan Gibson?
  11. The Russian Passengers Aboard MH370
  12. The Drive : The Crucial Clue MH370 Investigators Missed
  13. Wouldn’t MH370 Have Been Seen By Radar If It Went North?
  14. New MH370 Book Ties It All Together
  15. Identity of MH370 Mystery Caller Revealed
  16. Businessweek: Addiction to a Language-Learning App Can Be Good for You

2018 20

  1. The MH370 Miracle (updated)
  2. New York: ‘My Power to Demolish Is Ten Times Greater Than My Power to Promote’: How John McAfee became the spokesman for the crypto bubble.
  3. What Sort of Person Was MH370’s Captain?
  4. French MH370 Investigators Eye “Spoof” Scenario
  5. Businessweek: This Thiel-Backed Startup Says It Can Clean Up the Seas. Scientists Have Doubts
  6. About That MH370 Inmarsat Data…
  7. Popular Mechanics: When Ground Crew Steal Airplanes
  8. Seven Takeaways from the Final Malaysian MH370 Report
  9. Popular Mechanics: What If They Were Looking for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the Wrong Place All Along?
  10. No, Larry Vance Did Not Lead the Investigation Into Swissair 111
  11. Guest Post: “60 Minutes: How to create your own facts before the real ones are at hand”
  12. Ocean Infinity Further Expands MH370 Search Area
  13. ATSB’s Final Search Area Completed. Once Again, MH370 Isn’t There.
  14. Minor MH370 Mystery Resolved
  15. MH370: The Single, Simple Mistake Behind the Search’s Failure
  16. MH370 Debris Fouling Supports Spoof Scenario
  17. Malaysia Triples Described MH370 Search Area
  18. I’m Looking at You, Paul Marshall
  19. New York : The Mysterious New Search for MH370
  20. About the New MH370 Search — UPDATED

2017 21

  1. How Zaharie Shah Navigated His Flight Sim–& What It Signifies for MH370
  2. Does the MH370 Captain’s Flight Simulator Prove His Guilt?
  3. Malaysia Looks Set to Restart MH370 Search – UPDATED
  4. MH370: Mission Accomplished
  5. Seven Reasons Why MH370 Isn’t in the Southern Indian Ocean
  6. Australia Issues Perplexing New MH370 Report
  7. Men’s Journal: The Last Voyage of the SS El Faro
  8. Russia Suspected in GPS Satellite Signal Spoof
  9. How Did MH370’s Flaperon Come Off?
  10. Reading the Secrets of MH370 Debris
  11. Update on MH370 Drift Modeling Enigma
  12. Details Emerge in Fatal Icon Crash
  13. Nowhere Left to Look for MH370
  14. Australian Scientists Release Meaty MH370 Report
  15. Andreas Lubitz’s Family Disputes Germanwings Suicide Scenario
  16. The Outline: When Machines Go Rogue
  17. First MH17 Perpetrator Identified
  18. Further Clarity on MH370 Flight Path Modeling
  19. MH370: Triumph of the Weird
  20. Were MH370 Searchers Unlucky, or Duped?
  21. Zaharie Shah’s Secret Psych Evaluation

2016 61

  1. Is the New ATSB Search Area Sound?
  2. New York: The Search for MH370 Seems to Be Over. What Now?
  3. Australia Issues Postmortem on Seabed Search
  4. The Flaperon’s Path to Réunion
  5. Is Blaine Alan Gibson Planting MH370 Debris? — UPDATED
  6. MH370 Updates
  7. More secret MH370 documents released
  8. Long-rumored police report of cell tower connection leaks at last — UPDATED
  9. Thoughts on Australia’s New MH370 Report — UPDATED
  10. Towfish Scan of MH370 Search Zone Completed (UPDATED)
  11. What If Zaharie Didn’t Do It?
  12. Implications of the JIT’s MH17 report
  13. Assessing the Reliability of the MH370 Burst Frequency Offset Data
  14. How MH370 Got Away
  15. Fascinatingly Mysterious New Flaperon Barnacle Data
  16. Trailer for Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee
  17. Commentary on Neil Gordon Interview
  18. Exclusive Interview with Top MH370 Search Mathematician Neil Gordon
  19. MH370 Flight Simulator Claim Unravels Under Inspection
  20. Showtime to Premiere Documentary GRINGO: THE DANGEROUS LIFE OF JOHN McAFEE, 9/24
  21. Free the Data!
  22. Did MH370 Plunge or Ditch?
  23. 60 Minutes Australia on Secret Malaysia Report
  24. Australia Confirms Zaharie Flight-Sim Route to Southern Ocean
  25. New York : MH370 Pilot Flew a Suicide Route on His Home Simulator Closely Matching Final Flight
  26. Popular Mechanics : Where Did the Search for MH370 Go Wrong?
  27. How We Know Where MH370 Went
  28. Guest Post: Where MH370 Search Area Debris Has Historically Gone
  29. Further MH370 Drift Analysis Casts Added Doubt on Current Search Area
  30. MH370 News Update — UPDATED
  31. Possible MH370 Debris Found in Tanzania — UPDATED
  32. Blaine Alan Gibson Finds 3 Possible MH370 Debris Pieces in Madagascar
  33. More about African MH370 Debris
  34. New Potential MH370 Debris Found on Mauritius — UPDATED x3
  35. Egyptair Flight MS804 Disappears From Radar — UPDATED
  36. Image of Barnacle-Encrusted Debris Surfaces in South Africa — UPDATED
  37. The SDU Re-logon: A Small Detail That Tells Us So Much About the Fate of MH370
  38. Updated MH370 Study Reiterates Seabed Search Uncertainties
  39. French Judiciary Report Raises Fresh Doubts About MH370 Debris
  40. MH370 Debris Questions Mount
  41. An Illusion Made FlyDubai Pilots Crash: Popular Mechanics
  42. ATSB Sidesteps Debris-Planting Issue
  43. MH370 Debris Was Planted, Ineptly
  44. Deriving the Dimensions of the Rodrigues Debris
  45. Can Ocean Conditions Explain the Lack of Biofouling on MH370 Debris?
  46. The Rodrigues Debris Puzzle
  47. Suspected MH370 Interior Fragment Found
  48. Flydubai 981: What Really Happened?
  49. Bioforensic Analysis of Suspected MH370 Debris UPDATED x2
  50. MH370 Debris Storm
  51. MH370 Second Interim Statement Released
  52. New York: How an American Obsessed With the MH370 Case May Have a Found a Piece of the Missing Plane
  53. MH370: Suicide or Spoof? Part 2 — Motive
  54. MH370: Suicide or Spoof? Part 1 — Psychology
  55. Life after the “Ghost Ship”
  56. Minor MH370 Mysteries, #1: The Case of the Wayward Etihad A330 — UPDATED
  57. Could Gulf of Thailand Debris Come From MH370? — UPDATED
  58. A Couple of MH370 Things
  59. Unscientific MH370 Reader Poll
  60. Can We Rule Out a Ghost-Ship Endgame for MH370?
  61. Free the Flaperon!

2015 49

  1. MH370 Seabed Search Concentrates on Low-Probability Area — UPDATED
  2. “The Plane That Wasn’t There” Audiobook Giveaway — UPDATED x3
  3. How Wide Should the MH370 Search Area Be?
  4. MH370 Debris Drift Analysis by Brock McEwen
  5. Thoughts on the New ATSB Report on MH370 — UPDATED
  6. New York: AirAsia Flight 8501 Crash Reveals the Dangers of Putting Machines in the Driver’s Seat
  7. Assigning Blame for MH17
  8. The FBI’s File on MH370
  9. New York: What Brought Down the Russian Metrojet Flight Over Egypt?
  10. How the MH370 Flaperon Floated — UPDATED
  11. Guest Post: On the possible interpretation of abnormal BFO values
  12. Guest Editorial: Why This Plague of False Information?
  13. Text of French President’s Announcement
  14. Text of French Prosecutor’s Announcement Confirming Flaperon Link to MH370
  15. Translation: “Simulations Call MH370 Search Strategy Into Question” ( Der Spiegel )
  16. The Growth of Sea Life on Indian Ocean Flotsam
  17. New York : The Strange Saga of the Plane Part That Was Supposed to Solve the MH370 Mystery — UPDATED
  18. What Are the Discrepancies in the Reunion Flaperon? — UPDATED
  19. How Did the Reunion Flaperon Float?
  20. French Report: Investigators Can’t Link Reunion Flaperon to MH370
  21. Ditching in the Middle of the Ocean, Part 2: Answers
  22. Guest Post: Some Observations of the Radar Data for MH370
  23. Why Would Anyone Fly a Plane Into the Middle of the Ocean and then Ditch it?
  24. Listening to Barnacles — UPDATED
  25. New York : What the MH370 Wing Flap Tells Us, And What It Doesn’t
  26. The Mysterious Reboot, Part 3
  27. The Mysterious Reboot, Part 2
  28. The Mysterious Reboot
  29. Only Three Options Remain for MH370’s Fate
  30. MH370: Anatomy of the SIO Search
  31. Where Do We Think MH370 Went?
  32. Guest Post: The Backward Method for Finding MH370
  33. Guest Post: Northern Routes and Burst Frequency Offset for MH370
  34. Guest Post: Stochastic Simulation of Hypothetical MH370 End-of-Flight Scenarios
  35. Guest Post: Northern Routes for MH370 Ending at Airports
  36. The Reasoning Behind the Continued Search of the Southern Indian Ocean for MH370
  37. Nautilus: Fear in the Cockpit
  38. Washington Post: Don’t Be So Quick to Believe that Andreas Lubitz Committed Suicide
  39. Germanwings Flight 9525 — UPDATED
  40. New York : How Crazy Am I to Think I Actually Know Where That Malaysia Airlines Plane Is?
  41. Media Reaction to “The Spoof”
  42. What Was Going On at Yubileyniy?
  43. MH370: Just the Facts, Ma’am
  44. Guest Post: TransAsia 235 Crash Timeline
  45. Guest Post: Why Did MH370 Log Back on with Inmarsat?
  46. Airliner Stalls, Crashes After Trying to Climb Over Thunderstorm
  47. AirAsia Tail Location Mystery: Solved?
  48. Why AirAsia 8501 Disappeared From Radar
  49. Airliners in Unusual Attitudes

2014 29

  1. Why Thunderstorms Are So Dangerous for Airliners
  2. Sense and Nonsense in MH370 Coverage
  3. Russian Military Planes, Flying With Transponders Off, Provoke Alarm in Europe
  4. Up Close: Inside an IG Southern Route
  5. MH370 Final Major Turn Timing
  6. Occam’s Razor is Overrated
  7. Why MH370 Search Officials Can’t Agree Where to Look
  8. How We Can Tell How Fast MH370 Was Flying
  9. MH370 and the Mystery of Indonesian Radar
  10. MH370 Evidence Points to Sophisticated Hijackers
  11. MH370: Where is the Debris?
  12. In Search for Missing Airliner, Peanut Gallery Shows the Way
  13. What We Know Now About MH370
  14. Australian Search Effort Extends to Area Pinpointed by Independent Experts
  15. MH370 Search Area Still Too Far North, Independent Experts Suggest (UPDATED)
  16. MH370 Search Area Moves Further South Again
  17. What Could Have Happened to MH370?
  18. Tech Guru John McAfee Found Liable in 2006 Death
  19. The Triple-Disappearing Airplane
  20. Slate: Where the Missing Plane Went
  21. Guest Post: What We Know About MH370, and What We Would Like to Know
  22. Slate: Why Inmarsat’s MH370 Report is a Smokescreen
  23. Why Did Australia Change the Search Area?
  24. The Path of the Missing Malaysian Airliner: What We Know, and How — UPDATED
  25. Popular Mechanics: Piloting a Hovercraft
  26. Katie: Are Some People Wired to be Brave?
  27. Businessweek : How Airbus Is Debugging the A350
  28. Popular Mechanics: The Improbable Pedal-Powered Flying Machines
  29. Success : The Impossibles

2013 27

  1. Reader’s Digest: What Makes Someone Brave?
  2. New York : Coding Kids
  3. Popular Mechanics : The New Space Age
  4. Men’s Journal: How to Become a Pilot
  5. Travel + Leisure: Driving Hawaii’s Big Island
  6. Popular Mechanics : How Not to Die
  7. Happy 100th Birthday to The Great American Road
  8. Success : Better Than Smart
  9. Signs of the Times
  10. Listening to Fear
  11. Your Bleeped Up Brain
  12. Human Powered Aircraft Race Heats Up
  13. Finally! A Human-Powered Helicopter Wins the $250,000 Sikorsky Prize
  14. New York : Too Many Geniuses
  15. 2 Teams,1 Dream: The Human-Powered Helicopter
  16. Psychology Today : Dancing With a Madman
  17. What is Music For?
  18. How Real Life Change Happens
  19. My First Crush
  20. Deadly Mind Tricks
  21. The Grandeur of Delusion
  22. MIND TRAPS: The fatal mistake of hanging on too long — UPDATE
  23. Kitzbühel: Austria’s Alpine High
  24. Laughter’s Secret Purpose
  25. Slate: About That Overpopulation Problem
  26. In Pursuit of McAfee, Media Are Part of Story
  27. Is John McAfee Crazy?

2012 24

  1. Exclusive: John McAfee Wanted for Murder (Updated)
  2. My Dream Airplane Takes to the (Virtual) Skies
  3. Secrets, Schemes, and Lots of Guns: Inside John McAfee’s Heart of Darkness
  4. How Psychopaths Remain Invisible
  5. Distant Tracks
  6. Human-Powered Helicopters Go Head to Head
  7. The U.S. Army’s New ‘Battle Blimp’
  8. What Your iPhone Does to Your Brain
  9. I’ll Try Anything: Riding Shotgun with Aerobatic Champ Kirby Chambliss
  10. Can You Really Be Helplessly Addicted to Heavy Metal, Skittles, or Sunday Football?
  11. The Limits of Aviation Safety
  12. The Toughest Challenge in Aviation
  13. Going Upside-Down in a Helicopter
  14. Everest’s Psychological Trap
  15. Breaking Anxiety’s Strange Death Loop
  16. Live Studio Interview
  17. Stories Create the World
  18. Fear Turns Invisible
  19. Human Flies Like a Bird? I Don’t Think So
  20. The Doorway from Impossible
  21. What’s Your Favorite Mistake?
  22. If Mayan Prophecy Doomsayers Are Right…
  23. Facebook’s Fatal Flaw
  24. Why Your Brain’s Wrong About Danger

2011 34

  1. What AF447’s Passengers Experienced
  2. Popular Mechanics: How Panic Doomed an Airliner
  3. The Truth About Lies
  4. Surviving Fear Under the Ice
  5. Sad News
  6. And Then We Fire Off Machine Guns
  7. VIDEO: Getting Tanked
  8. Forging a Soul of Iron
  9. How Congress is Like a Crack Addict’s Brain
  10. What Didn’t Cause the Reno Air Race Crash
  11. How GPS Makes Clueless Drivers
  12. What’s It Like to Fly a Mustang?
  13. The Thing Inside You That’s Holding You Back
  14. It’s Not the Scary Things that Kill You
  15. Is Storm Chasing Immoral?
  16. Apocalypse Today: The Allure of Bad Theory
  17. Right Wingers and the Reptile Brain
  18. How Fear Destroyed a Career
  19. The Mystery of Clutch Performance
  20. Dude, Your Jetpack’s Here
  21. How Dogs Read Our Minds
  22. Interview: Fear, Death and The Psychology of Fight Club
  23. Could a Sendai-sized Earthquake Hit the US?
  24. The Ecology of Misinformation
  25. Is Your Mind Controlled by Parasites?
  26. The Neuro-Nonsense of Inception
  27. 9 Secrets of Courage From Extreme Fear
  28. Controlling the Flow of Time
  29. Snowfall as a Way to Visualize Death
  30. Why Would You Jump Out of a Perfectly Good Airplane?
  31. MIND TRAPS: How Smart People Went so Wrong on Autism
  32. Has Psychology Killed Philosophy? A Chat with Sean D. Kelly, Co-author of All Things Shining
  33. MIND TRAPS: The fatal mistake of hanging on too long
  34. Guest Post: Raising a Potential Psychopath

2010 129

  1. Do Crime Victims Deserve Some Blame?
  2. The Strange Lives of Women With No Fear
  3. Today’s Fake Terror Threat: “FAA loses track of 119,000 aircraft”
  4. The Dark Psychology of the World’s Most Dangerous Sport
  5. Glee’s Walking Machine: Fact and Fiction
  6. Black Friday: The Stampede
  7. An Accident Strikes, and the World Becomes Smaller
  8. Caught in a Stampede, What Would You Do?
  9. Security Guru Bruce Schneier: "I Predicted TSA Brouhaha"
  10. 7 Essential Steps to Mastering Temptation
  11. The 2 Key Parenting Skills You Didn’t Know About
  12. Yes, You Really Can Lift a Car Off a Trapped Child
  13. Getting Lost, and Loving It
  14. The Scary Science of Halloween Haunting
  15. The Nervous Breakdown: A Myth?
  16. I’m Having One of Those Days
  17. How Psychopaths Choose Their Victims
  18. The Women Most Likely to Be Stalked
  19. Who’ll Be the Alpha Male? Ask the Hormones
  20. The Hipsterology Debate Ended, Once and For All
  21. Your Most Vivid Memory? Maybe It Never Happened
  22. World's First Ornithopter Just Flew. Or Did It?
  23. It’s Not a Crash If the Plane’s Still in One Piece
  24. The Moment That Lasts Forever
  25. The Sad Science of Hipsterism
  26. Aiming for Happiness, and Arriving at Regret
  27. Beguiled by Hollywood, Drawn to a Death in the Wilderness
  28. How to Hunt Like a Caveman
  29. UPDATE: Breaking Coverage of John Graybill Story
  30. Safer Bush Flying: The Technology Is There, But Will Pilots Use It?
  31. John Graybill's National Geographic Adventure Profile
  32. Terrible News
  33. Welcome To New York, Suckaz!
  34. At Play in Ted Stevens Crash, A Familiar Culprit
  35. Breaking the Oldest Land-Speed Record
  36. The Exact Opposite of a Prius
  37. Save a Plastic Bag, Help Destroy the World
  38. Unsafe At Any Speed
  39. Surrounded by Wildfire, Should You Run or Fight?
  40. Flying Cars, A Very Old Dream
  41. Readers Set Me Straight: The Love Parade Tragedy
  42. Warning: Flying Cars May Appear Closer than They Are
  43. Behind the Love Parade Tragedy: The Psychology of Stampedes
  44. How to Trick People into Thinking You're Intelligent
  45. When Summer Fun Turns Deadly Serious
  46. I Want My Inflatable Airplane
  47. Can a Common Health Supplement Help Conquer Fear?
  48. Montana Ranching: The Uncensored Story
  49. Career Limbo: Why Intelligent People Get Stuck
  50. Is the TSA Fighting Terror, or Abetting It?
  51. Readers Write: "How Fear Stopped Time"
  52. I Feel Like I’m Floating on Air
  53. Fat, Drunk, and Broke? Don’t Blame the Caveman
  54. What Makes Sports Fans Happiest: Fear and Despair
  55. Coming Up for Air
  56. Can You Lose Weight By Thinking Really Hard?
  57. Abby Sunderland and Tragedy’s Perverse Incentive
  58. The Ultimate Daredevil’s Guide to Conquering Fear
  59. The Science of Sports: Is There Such a Thing as a Clutch Performer?
  60. Who’s Fairer, Chimpanzees or Mortgage Bankers?
  61. Hunting With Home-Made Weapons
  62. Readers Write: How Fear Saved My Life
  63. How to Thrive Under Stress
  64. An Ultramarathoner’s 5 Secrets of Toughness
  65. Great, My Plane's Crashing. Now What?
  66. No, You Did Not Have a Bad Day. THIS Guy Had a Bad Day
  67. The Neurobiology of Market Madness
  68. Near Death Experiences: Science and Skepticism
  69. No, Sullenberger Did Not Screw Up
  70. Top 10 Secrets of Effective Liars
  71. “Boy, Was I Wrong About Him”: Why It’s So Hard to Size People Up
  72. Blimps for the Everyman
  73. My Strange Journey With Antivirus Guru John McAfee
  74. Has BASE Jumping Gotten Boring For You?
  75. How the Bravest Are Different
  76. Figure Out a Problem, And Make it Impossible to Solve
  77. Fear-watching
  78. "Go Toward the Light": The Science of Near-Death Experiences
  79. More Red Bull Mishigas
  80. iPhone vs Earthquakes
  81. What is Going On Inside Travis Pastrana’s Brain??
  82. In Smolensk Air Crash, Blame People, Not Machines
  83. When Fears Come True, And Disappear
  84. Closer to Danger, and Less Frightened
  85. When to Listen to Your Fears, and When to Ignore Them
  86. How a New York Woman Died of Fear
  87. I’m Worried That You’re Not Worrying Enough
  88. Can Animals Detect Earthquakes?
  89. Murder and Profit in Mexico’s Most Dangerous City
  90. In an Encounter with a Cougar, Four Different Ways to Panic
  91. Das Buch ist in deutscher Sprache!
  92. Cutest Psychology Experiment EVER
  93. How a Peaceful Crowd Turns Into a Lethal Stampede
  94. Top 7 Management Secrets of Blackbeard the Pirate
  95. Do Toyota Drivers Suffer From Faulty Brakes, or Errant Panic Circuitry?
  96. 5 Best Sports Fantasy Getaways
  97. A Strange Calm in a Sea of Danger
  98. How the Brain Stops Time
  99. Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf?
  100. "I Didn’t Jump, I Was Pushed"
  101. How to Enjoy a Memorable Vacation (Through Neuroscience)
  102. Sinking Ships: Why Some Passengers Panic, Some Don’t
  103. Are We Living in a Low-Budget Marine-Themed Horror Movie?
  104. New York City: It’s a Jungle Out There
  105. Tracy Morgan on Fear
  106. The Psychological Hazards of Speed Skating
  107. Practicing What I Preach: Grappling With Fear at the Podium
  108. Delicious Agony: The Neuroscience of Watching Johnny Weir
  109. Extreme Fear At an Early Hour
  110. Things to Be Afraid Of, New York City Edition
  111. Fear of the Road, Pt 2
  112. Did Fear Contribute to Olympic Luger’s Death?
  113. The Riddle of Creativity in the Face of Danger
  114. Restoring The Power To Walk — With Exoskeletons
  115. The Only Thing Crazier Than a Wingsuit
  116. World's Scariest Airstrip
  117. "Damned Connecticut" Delves into Extreme Fear
  118. The Irony of Road Fear
  119. Fear Itself? Maybe We Need More
  120. Fear of Flying Takes a Deadly Toll
  121. Some Call Them Deathtraps
  122. A Nod from The New Scientist
  123. How To Jump Out of an Airplane Without a Parachute. And Survive.
  124. Stuff of Nightmares, Pt. 2: Shark Attack Quiz
  125. Clear Thinking Under Pressure: Second Amendment Version
  126. Stuff of Nightmares, Pt. 1: Parasitic Tongue
  127. Flu: The Season of Fear has Passed
  128. Death on a Sled
  129. Heartbroken? Take a Tylenol. (Seriously)

2009 26

  1. Brooke Mueller and Charlie Sheen: Why Won’t She Leave Him?
  2. Readers Driven to Panic
  3. Gladwell’s Stickiness Problem
  4. Superhuman? No, Just Very Frightened
  5. Thanks, Pop Mech!
  6. For Athletes, New Ways to Fail
  7. Toddlers Headed to Jail
  8. Erasing Fear Memories – Without Drugs
  9. Extreme Fear is Here!
  10. Are People Irrational in a Disaster?
  11. "All I Could Do Was Pray"
  12. How Breathing Can Lead to Panic
  13. Panic Over the Hudson
  14. I Am Ready for Launch!
  15. The FAA’s Computers Are on the Fritz. Should I Worry?
  16. Feeling Anxious? Congratulations!
  17. Everything’s Normal, pt 2
  18. The Love Drug’s Dark Side
  19. Sullenberger Redux
  20. Everything’s Normal, Then It’s Not
  21. Can Handwashing Save Us?
  22. Subwaytrackophobia
  23. A Drug for Forgetting Fear?
  24. Love vs Fear
  25. The Agony of Social Fear
  26. Can Your iPhone Conquer Fear?