Today’s article on why men don’t do yoga is trending well on the Washington Post website. I guess its a topic that everyone has an opinion on. I do like the idea of Lulucucumber.
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Recent feature in the Washington Post about new developments in robotic sensing that allow devices to see and smell – and make decisions about where to go with that information: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/robots-are-getting-closer-to-having-humanlike-abilities-and-senses/2013/08/05/61cb3cdc-8d9d-11e2-9838-d62f083ba93f_story.html. Some are being used to detect leaks of gas at landfills, or mimicking the abilities of fish to stay in underwater currents. Here’s another feature for C&EN about how Estonia’s state energy company is hoping to expand its shale oil operations to both Jordan and Utah. I visited the northeast corner of Estonia to see the massive surface mines where brown-colored shale oil rock is stripped off the surface. It’s then either burned in the Eesti Energia power plant, or pulverized, heated and then refined into liquid oil: http://cen.acs.org/articles/91/i30/Energy-Production-Estonian-Way.html?h=1584378995 Here’s my first feature for Chemical & Engineering News, a magazine published by the American Chemical Society in Washington. I flew out to Seattle in late January and met with Micah McCarty, the former tribal leader of the Makah. They live at the northwest corner of the Olympic Peninsula, right on the water. He’s worried about the effects of ocean acidification on shells they use for both food and ceremonies. There’s also a great video produced by C&EN with some of the video and stills I shot on our scramble down to the tidal rocks at Cape Flattery. Here are some new bio-inspired devices coming out of research labs that make use of new nano-technology techniques to sort tumor cells, create surgical glues that work inside the body and electronics wrapped in spider silk that evaporate. From today’s Washington Post Health/Science section. Fun story here in today’s Washington Post Health/Science section about cuttlefish and their powers of changing colors and camouflaging themselves even though they are color-blind. This came from visit to Roger Hanlon’s lab last summer at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., where I was an environmental journalism fellow. Here’s a look at drones and their use by atmospheric scientists and others to scan the skies. It appeared in September in the Washington Post Health/Science page. Here’s my recent piece in the Washington Post on new battery technology – which is actually pretty interesting despite the financial problems of some of the bigger firms going after the EV market. With nearly a year gone since Fukushima, I took a look at one possible alternative for nuclear fuel called thorium. Proponents haven’t had much luck getting either private industry or the U.S. labs to build a thorium reactor, but they’re hoping for some help from Congress to get it off the ground. Here’s my report in this Tuesday’s Washington Post. There’s been lots of ink spilled over the past two months as the centennial of the discovery of the South Pole – and the race between Amundsen and Scott – is remembered. What sometimes is forgotten is that Scott’s expedition, even though it turned out to be a disaster, was primarily a scientific one. His colleagues returned with thousands of samples, new findings and even new theories about the origins of Antarctica. Here’s more in a piece for the Washington Post’s Health/Science page. |
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