Short of the Week
The Appalachian electro-hypersensitive community living under the world’s largest radio telescope
In Green Bank, West Virginia, a radio-quiet zone around a giant telescope has become a refuge for people who say wireless signals make them ill.
A strange, quietly fascinating portrait of an American town hiding from the wireless world.
In a remote corner of the Appalachian mountains, the small town of Green Bank, West Virginia has become an unlikely refuge from society’s increasing reliance on machines. Under the shadow of the world’s largest radio tel
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