Scott Johnson

3 weeks ago | nationalgeographic.com | Scott Johnson

Just after 7 p.m. on the evening of April 29, conservation ecologist Colleen Begg was having dinner with her husband, Keith, and their two teenage children when her phone beeped with a WhatsApp message: The Mariri Environmental Centre she had founded in Mozambique’s Niassa Special Reserve had been attacked by terrorists. Two thousand people from a nearby village had fled into the bush. Begg spent a sleepless night organizing rescue efforts, but by morning she confronted a grim reality.

2 months ago | nationalgeographic.com | Scott Johnson

One scorching day last September, Annie Méchin crouched over a slab of red clay on a remote patch of farmland near Marseille, on France’s Mediterranean coast. Méchin was scraping away at the clay when she unearthed what looked like a tiny bone fragment. Sensing the familiar jolt of adrenaline that surged anytime she came across a fossil, she called out to her husband, Patrick, who was digging nearby.

Apr 4, 2024 | mindingthecampus.org | Scott Johnson |Scott Johnson

zero comment For a novel that is smart and fun, Bright College Years, is also depressing. It reminds us of a lost world, of what the campus experience once was but is no longer. . It’s also timely: if recent events (optimistically) portend that we are seeing the beginning of the end of the self-mockery age of higher education, then maybe Bright College Years could help serve as a model for the restructuring ahead.

Apr 2, 2024 | flipboard.com | Scott Johnson

Two Dead on a Tom Cruise Movie Shoot: A Plane Crash in Colombia, Lawsuits and a Survivor Speaks OutWas a tragedy during the production of Cruise's 'American Made' preventable? Conflicting accounts and a pilot in a "death pool" raise questions about …

Mar 24, 2024 | bestthrillerbooks.com | Scott Johnson |Sarah Langan |Teresa Brock

Hargobind Tahilramani was able to cause at least 500 victims to lose around $2 million over the course of his (yes I said it – his) run. While long believed to be a female, that was in fact wrong.  Tahilramani was able to impersonate both male and female Hollywood executives in order to take advantage of makeup artists, stunt actors and members of private security details. There is an Apple TV docu-series based on this novel by Scott Johnson that is out now.