Washington Post: NASA’s first, tragic reminder that space ships are dangerous
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: , Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment New Scientist How long before green energy becomes just energy source to be capped Lots of Ink : The Everglades death toll now apparent . Giant snakes are cleaning the place out of anything big and still . alive Washington Post : NASA’s first , tragic reminder that space ships are dangerous Four days ago we received notice that the Washington Post s Brian Vastag had a melancholy , powerful story on the anniversary of the Apollo capsule fire It struck 45 years ago during a routine test on the launch pad and with no blast off yet on the schedule . I finally got around to reading his look-back at what the day was like , as recounted by the former wire service reporter who was NASA press officer on . duty It is a
Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment Wall Street Journal : No need for global warming panic Daily Mail : Forget global warming James Hansen Don’t forget , and get . busy New Scientist How long before green energy becomes just energy source to be capped Artist : Andy Potts What a terrific story . New Scientist’ s Anil Ananthaswamy throws his vision into full-fisheye , wide-angle mode to put human use of energy into long term future-history context Do that , he writes , and it starts to become clear that at some point , there can be too much energy even if it is all green energy . This is an outlier scenario that puts today’s arguments over the price of energy both directly economic and indirectly environmental into sharper . focus The theme question
: , , Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment Reuters : The Russian captain of the tanker that rescued Nome talks AP : Thai taste for bushmeat , pachyderm division , threatens species From Bangkok comes what the AP says is an exclusive story , and is definitely a good example of how to use a dramatic development to illuminate a larger , chronic issue . The development , writes reporter Thanyarat Doksone is that an official of Thailand’s wildlife agency reports that poachers are not only killing Asian elephants for their tusks , but their meat , giblets , sweetmeats , and other edible parts . The issue is the near-global concern that growing , hungry human populations may eat many endangered species out of . existence The story illustrates the sort of small
: Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment Clueless coverage of GOP candidates’ blather about US space program AP : Thai taste for bushmeat , pachyderm division , threatens species Reuters : The Russian captain of the tanker that rescued Nome talks Nice piece here of enterprise writing about the Russian rush to make money in the Arctic Ocean . alliteration is wit almost as cheap as puns . Almost but not quite . I try to draw the line at puns . Reuters s A lbina Kovalyova and Alissa de Carbonnel spoke with the captain of the Russian tanker that just delivered fuel oil to Nome , Alaska with the help of the overworked USCG ice breaker Healey They filed from Severodvinsk after reaching the skipper by phone in Vladivostok . A tagline credit goes to reporter
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