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Should be posting more. Here are a few recent pieces from Wired.com: –Climate fight between House GOP Science Chairman and NOAA scientists. -New Rules Coming for CRISPR Gene-Editing. -Drinking in Antarctica. -How Much Will VW Pay for the Diesel Emissions Scandal. -VW Couldn’t Trick Thermodynamics and Chemistry. I made a bunch of trips up the 495 to Goddard this summer and fall to put these pieces together for The Washington Post and this month’s Wired Magazine. With an $8.8 billion pricetag, it’s quite an amazing project that won’t get off the ground until 2018. Here’s a first-person treatment of my recent hip replacement surgery in today’s Washington Post. My piece in this week’s Washington Post highlights new research about the link between certain genes and the likelihood of getting brain disease after getting hit in sports or during combat. Here’s my piece in Wired Magazine from last summer’s visit to Fits.me, a Tallin-based startup with offices in London that is making it easier to shop online for clothes. Here are the results of my trip to Finland and Estonia last summer, a look at the work of a Helsinki researcher linking the nation’s high rate of type 1 diabetes and its clean society. Published recently in The Washington Post. Here’s a piece from my trip last fall to Berlin, and Germany’s increasing use of dirty brown coal to supplant its electricity needs published in Chemical & Engineering News. 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. 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 |
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