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+/- Science: Five Interesting Things I Heard About: Nuclear Energy
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On the awesomeness of science in the natural world. Five Interesting Things I Heard About: Nuclear Energy. I’m back with another installment in my new series, “Five Interesting Things I Heard About: [blank].” In the first installment. I relayed five interesting comments that University of Wisconsin – Madison. Mechanical engineering professor Sandy Klein made about solar energy. Klein, also the director of the Solar Energy Lab. Image of U.S. government in public domain). 1 “There is no [nuclear] rea...
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+/- Science: December 2011
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On the awesomeness of science in the natural world. Five Interesting Things I Heard About: Nuclear Energy. I’m back with another installment in my new series, “Five Interesting Things I Heard About: [blank].” In the first installment. I relayed five interesting comments that University of Wisconsin – Madison. Mechanical engineering professor Sandy Klein made about solar energy. Klein, also the director of the Solar Energy Lab. Image of U.S. government in public domain). Links to this post. When you can&#...
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+/- Science: Antarctic Great Lake Glimpsed
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On the awesomeness of science in the natural world. Antarctic Great Lake Glimpsed. UPDATE (16 February 2012, 12:55 pm):. A few follow-up pieces have been posted in the past couple days (see here. Nature News has another story. With a great accompanying graphic that depicts the drilling operation in better scale; and a nod to Knight Sci Journalism Tracker. A team of Russian scientists has managed at long last to finish drilling through 3,769 meters of ice. Below the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Located at th...
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+/- Science: April 2011
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On the awesomeness of science in the natural world. In this age of the ever-expanding scope and complexity of cutting-edge science, researchers are increasingly using any and all resources at their disposal to expand their capacity for data collection and analysis. This may mean borrowing time on massive, multi-user super-computers. About the updated winter wolf count in Wisconsin, which relies in part on observations from knowledgeable amateurs) to surveys of interstellar gravitational waves. Like othe...
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+/- Science: March 2011
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On the awesomeness of science in the natural world. Shake, rattle, and roll.to scale. 160; Downtown Seattle as seen from West Seattle across Elliott Bay. The timing of my trip during the week after Japan’s subduction-related magnitude 9.0. And the resulting tsunami. And not long after a shallow crustal temblor hit Christchurch, NZ. Of the Puget Sound to both of these types of earthquakes, as well as to large deep earthquakes such as the 2001 Nisqually. Quake, and the parallels. On many in the region.
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+/- Science: October 2011
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On the awesomeness of science in the natural world. A ‘Now What? 8217; Moment for Climate Change Skeptics. Skeptics and denialists of climate change lost a powerful voice recently. It was one of their very few scientific voices. A physicist at the Universityof California at Berkeley. Has long raised questions about the data used by climate researchers and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In an October 21 op-ed. Links to this post. New "family friendly" policies from NSF (Part 2).
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+/- Science: February 2011
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On the awesomeness of science in the natural world. Nisqually.10 Years On. Headline from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 1, 2001. Earthquake occurrences in the past seven days. Screen grab from www.usgs.gov). A quick glance at the USGS running tally. Today is the 10th anniversary. Of the magnitude 6.8 Nisqually earthquake. Which struck the area at 10:54 am local time on Wednesday, February 28, 2001. Although it ranks as only the 82nd largest earthquake by magnitude. Links to this post. Below, Ive ...
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+/- Science: About the Author
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On the awesomeness of science in the natural world. Photo courtesy of Dave Clark). Scroll down for a list of published work.]. I talked for years about about going to journalism school and transitioning from science to science writing. I was not always convinced that it would happen myself, but I'm finally headed in that direction. This past December, I finished a Master's degree in journalism through the Pro-Track program in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Kind of a strange project for ...
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