Frank Massey
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Tech, AI, and social media writer with a passion for storytelling. I turn complex trends into engaging, relatable content. Exploring the future, one story at a time
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The Girl Who Glowed in the Dark: Karen Silkwood and the Secrets of the Plutonium Factory
The definitive true story of Karen Silkwood, the nuclear whistleblower who exposed safety violations at Kerr-McGee, died in a mysterious car crash, and changed American corporate liability law forever.
By Frank Massey 28 days ago in Humans
The Paper Trail to Freedom: Robert Churchwell and the Quiet War Inside the Mailroom
The old true story of Robert Churchwell and Black postal workers during the Civil Rights era who risked their jobs and lives to document mail tampering and voter suppression in the Deep So
By Frank Massey 29 days ago in Motivation
The Counter of the Dead: How a Small-Town Pharmacist Saw the Opioid Apocalypse Coming When Everyone Else Looked Away
The harrowing true story of the rural pharmacists who tried to warn America about the opioid crisis years before it became a national headline, and the systemic failure that silenced them.
By Frank Massey 30 days ago in Humans
The Surgeon Who Wasn’t: How a Black Janitor Taught America’s Doctors to Fix Broken Hearts
The incredible true story of Vivien Thomas, the African American laboratory supervisor who developed the procedure for Blue Baby Syndrome but was denied credit for decades due to segregation.
By Frank Massey about a month ago in Motivation
The Bureaucrat Who Said No: How a Junior FDA Scientist Stood Between America and a Medical Apocalypse
The inspiring true story of Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey, the FDA reviewer who blocked the approval of thalidomide in the United States, preventing thousands of birth defects and rewriting the laws of modern medicine.
By Frank Massey about a month ago in Motivation
The Man Who Screamed Into the Void: The Uncomfortable Truth of the Challenger Disaster
On the night of January 27, 1986, the temperature in Brigham City, Utah, was plummeting. Inside his home, an American engineer named Roger Boisjoly sat awake, his stomach knotted with a specific, heavy dread that most people will never experience.
By Frank Massey about a month ago in History
The Man Who Mapped the Poison: How an Invisible Janitor Exposed the Most Dangerous Building in America
The harrowing true story of the whistleblowers at the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, whose warnings about plutonium contamination led to the unprecedented 1989 FBI raid and the shutdown of a toxic American secret.
By Frank Massey about a month ago in Motivation
The Soldier the Army Rejected—Who Became the Commander-in-Chief
The year was 1917, and the world was burning. Europe had been trench-locked in the First World War for three years, and the United States was finally stepping into the fray. Across the American Midwest, young men were lining up at recruitment centers, eager to prove their valor in the "war to end all wars."
By Frank Massey about a month ago in Motivation
The Child Who Was Saved by a Law for Animals: The Mary Ellen Wilson Story
If you walked the streets of New York City in 1874, you would have seen a metropolis on the verge of becoming the center of the world. It was the dawn of the Gilded Age. The Brooklyn Bridge was rising from the East River, and the wealth of the Vanderbilts and Astors was reshaping Fifth Avenue. It was an era of immense progress, industrial might, and aggressive ambition.
By Frank Massey about a month ago in Motivation
The Patriots Behind Barbed Wire: How the Men America Imprisoned Saved America From Defeat
The untold true story of the Nisei linguists of the Military Intelligence Service (MIS) during WWII. How Japanese Americans recruited from internment camps translated enemy codes, shortened the war, and proved their loyalty to a country that had betrayed them.
By Frank Massey about a month ago in Motivation
The Invisible Army: How 10,000 American Women Broke the Axis Codes and Were Ordered to Forget It
The untold true story of the "Code Girls" of World War II—American women recruited to break German and Japanese codes in total secrecy, only to be forced into silence for decades.
By Frank Massey about a month ago in Motivation
The Engineer in the Maternity Ward: How Judith Love Cohen Helped Save Apollo 13 Before Giving Birth to a Rock Star
The incredible true story of Judith Love Cohen, the aerospace engineer who finalized the Abort Guidance System for Apollo 13 while in labor with her son, Jack Black. A deep dive into the history of women in STEM and the invisible labor that saved the space program.
By Frank Massey about a month ago in Motivation
