Tomorrow – Thursday, Nov. 26 – is Thanksgiving Holiday in the US and therefore, as we take Friday off too, there won’t be much if any new stuff on ksjtracker till next Monday. Happy Thanksgiving all of you here in Yankee Doodle Dandy land and equally...
The Tracker this morning happened on a lively piece at DiscoveryNews by Irene Klotz, called Lightning’s gamma rays may destroy matter. The news is that, earlier this month, users of NASA’s Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope reported at a meeting that –...
The beat goes on as media hunch up to cover the Copenhagen talks (even if it’s become unlikely to do much beyond set a date perhaps to get something tough done). The AP and BBC in particular rolled out two hefty enterprise yarns.
AP – John Heilprin :...
In New Scientist its former editor in chief, Alun Anderson, essays on the past and future Arctic with an expert’s eye. He starts with only a thin faint knell of foreboding, in a reminiscence of a polar bear he met as a postdoc aboard a research vessel...
One quickly gets over a first suspicion that Cornelia Dean scored a soft assignment to visit a tropical paradise for an eco-tourism semi-vacation writing and frolicking assignment. She lands the lead spot in the section following a trip to what she...
