Several government contractors are contesting their inclusion in alleged “ghost project” lists, saying completed infrastructure is being treated as nonexistent due to incorrect coordinates and errors ...

Steven Johnson, author of Everything Bad Is Good For You, has a blog post up about the new book he's just finishing, The Ghost Map. It's about the Broad Street cholera outbreak in London in 1854, and ...

Patient zero was a baby girl living in London. She contracted cholera on Aug. 28, 1854. That day her mother cleaned her diapers in a bucket and emptied the fetid effluent into the building’s cesspool, ...