“All’s Well that Ends Welles”: Orson Welles and the “Voodoo” "Macbeth"

The Medium on Trial: Orson Welles Takes on Kafka and Cinema

Few American directors have been as manifestly preoccupied with the uses and abuses of the media as Orson Welles. He became instantly famous in 1938 when his radio show The War of the Worlds, a simulation of a news broadcast announcing that Martians had just invaded New Jersey, managed to induce mass panic in an audience who took the hoax for an actual event.' People packed the roads, hid in ce...

Packets in Packets: Orson Welles' In-Band Signaling Attacks for Modern Radios

Here we present methods for injecting raw frames at Layer 1 from within upper-layer protocols by abuse of in-band signaling mechanisms common to most digital radio protocols. This packet piggy-backing technique allows attackers to hide malicious packets inside packets that are permitted on the network. When these carefully crafted Packets-in-Packets (PIPs) traverse a wireless network, a bit err...

Fifty years after Welles and Welles: distribution and genetic structure of desert bighorn sheep in Death Valley National Park

The status of desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) populations in the mountains around Death Valley was first evaluated in 1938, shortly after designation of Death Valley National Monument. However, the most comprehensive evaluation of bighorn sheep in the region was conducted by Ralph and Florence Welles during 1955-1961. They documented patterns of use at water sources and other foc...

Owl's well that ends well.

Oil's well that ends well.

So there I was - 3am on a cold December morning walking around the pontoons of an oil rig, seawater swirling over my boots, torch in one hand, lead in the other and on the end of the lead.., a diver. How did this happen to a nurse and why wasn't I in a nice warm hospital?