A story too compelling to be true?

The doomed cosmonaut hurtled toward earth in a crippled spacecraft, cursing the engineers who put him there. That gripping story from 1967 was the subject of a recent book and a National Public Radio blog entry. But how much of it was true? Natalie Wolchover reviews the evidence on Life's Little Mysteries, raising questions about whether there are different standards of proof for conventional news stories and blog entries.

April 9, 2011

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