Guest Thinkers — December 21, 2010

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Waq al-waq has had well over 3,000 visitors today, which is far above our daily average. For those new to blog and looking for information on Yemen and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula I would recommend clicking on the articles on the side or doing a search for things like “al-Qaeda” or AQAP in the upper left-hand corner.

Here is the link to my appearance on CNN last night.

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Hard Science

The weird, dangerous, isolated life of the saturation diver

The divers spend their waking hours either under hundreds of feet of water on the ocean floor or squeezed into an area the size of a restaurant booth.

Starts With A Bang

Ask Ethan: Can science explain UFO sightings?

Lots of people have seen lots of bizarre events and phenomena that defy our conventional experience. But is there a scientific explanation?

Strange Maps

The world’s longest straight line connects Portugal to China

It’s nearly 20,000 miles long.

Starts With A Bang

Astronomers race to save the night sky, but will anyone listen?

An unprecedented number of new satellites threatens the night sky as we know it. Will we act in time to save it?

Starts With A Bang

Astronomy Faces A Mega-Crisis As Satellite Mega-Constellations Loom

The night sky is already noticeably different, and bigger changes are ahead. For all of human history until the launch of Sputnik, the only objects in the night sky were naturally […]

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