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The Short Goodbye
by It seems like just yesterday I was making a science television show and writing a blog that would go the distance. Ah, my salad days, when I was green in judgment.
by It's been an interesting experience.
by So long and thanks for all the fish!
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Don't Be a Stranger
by Well, it's goodbye from me... and maybe hello elsewhere...
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Summer reading!
Have some free time this summer? A few books to add to your list...
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Out of Balance
Climate change can't be avoided in any way except by stopping our changes to the atmosphere.
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The River of Energy
Wherein we tackle global warming at last...
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Plight Of The Postdoc
by Is modern American science strangling its young talents in the cradle?
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Mars Lander Awash in Data
I've throttled back on the Mars Lander news updates of late, but I can spare you my astrophilia no longer. The latest from the Red Planet is that Phoenix has dug its robotic hand into the dirt and come out with a fistful of chemical data that points toward - you guessed it - water. A lot of water.
After the flood--starting to assess the damage
The flooding may be nearing an end, but the clean-up and reconstruction are only just beginning.
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Bucky
Richard Buckminster Fuller was a dreamer. No doubt about it. He had all sorts of ideas about how technology could be employed to solve the ills of our society and species. Most of them never saw the light of day, although his name lives on in a number of areas. There's an excellent opportunity to learn more about him by visiting an excellent new retrospective on him that is in New York's Whitney Museum, and there's a New Yorker article that you can read online.
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Micro-Beauty
by I just came across these fantastic images from Lennart Nilsson's site and had to post them. Seriously, who would think subway scum and malaria could look this beautiful? Nilsson is one of the pioneers of medical photography, and was also the first person to ever capture images of the HIV and SARS virus.
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The Black Mallet :: Mathematical Pudding
Last night I watched what could oddly be described as a moving math documentary. It's the story of Andrew Wiles, a Princeton University professor who spent seven years of his life ploughing away at one of mathematics' last great unsolved puzzles
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Journey To South Africa!
Esteemed wildlife photographer and biologist, Nicolas Devos, is back in South Africa... and he's bringing Correlations readers on the adventure!
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Clouds from Both Sides Now
As much energy leaves the earth into space as arrives from the sun. As much energy reaches the surface of the earth as leaves the surface. But these are not the same! Does the earth somehow make something from nothing?
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