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The Colombian geological survey has placed Cerro Machín on Yellow status after a weekend of increased seismicity – the volcano is less than 25 km from the city of Ibagué.
Want to run all the volcanoes in the world?
Redoubt has snarled both air and road travel in Alaska and beyond.
One of the most wonderful things about the emerging global superbrain is that information is overflowing on a scale beyond what we can wrap our heads around.
“Making nice doesn’t work. It was worth a try, but it didn’t work. So we’d better try something else.” A Methodist Sunday school teacher proposes standing up to inaction over climate change.
Most people consider anonymous sex in public places to be a crude, rude and immoral act. But “all that is rude ought not to be civilized with death,” as Walter […]
At the BIO 2008 International Convention coming up in June in San Diego, I will be participating in a panel on the communication challenges facing biotechnology. Below are the details […]
While we witness the transition from paper to digital publishing, The Atlantic looks back on ten prior revolutions in literacy from hieroglyphs to Hellenic song to the printing press.
“Don’t ask, don’t tell” may come up for a vote after all. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) wants to bring the 2011 defense authorization bill, which contains a provision […]
Bright sunny Wednesday here in Ohio made all the better upon hearing that the miners trapped in the Chilean mine have started to make their way – one by one […]
The “significant” eruption at Karkar reported last week turns out to be a significant phantom – how did the Darwin VAAC get such a large “false positive” for an eruption?
This semester, I am serving on the search committee for an exciting new tenure track position in science, environmental, and/or health journalism. Our School of Communication at American University is […]
From a press release out today, detailing the strong commitment from both parties to biomedical research.n Federation of American Societies for Experimental BiologyOffice of Public Affairs • 9650 Rockville Pike, […]
For readers in the Beltway, I will be presenting at this upcoming panel on blogging sponsored by the DC Science Writers Association. It’s free if you don’t plan to partake […]
I have theory, it is a personal theory not quite backed up by empirical evidence, that one of the reasons so many people are single is that they are poor […]
So far, you’ve submitted some great volcano images. Keep them coming!
In the White House, can a white conservative do more to restrain anti-Islamic bigotry than an African-American progressive? Writing on the anniversary of 9/11, a couple of writers Saturday argued […]
Republican senate candidate Sharron Angle says that teenagers who are raped should make lemonade out of lemons by bearing their attackers’ children. Angle is one of several senate candidates who […]
Borders are to maps what icing is to cakes. Tracing their course between countries and across continents is a source of great enjoyment for the cartophile, as is contemplating their […]
Afters months of waiting, I have finally been able to get my act together enough to post the answers to questions you posed to Dr. Adam Kent. If you remember […]
Each Monday evening in November, AAAS is sponsoring a series of panel discussions on major issues in science and technology policy. The panels are hosted by NPR reporters Joe Palca […]
Another mystery volcano photo – and this one should be fun!
Well, when it rains it pours in the world of theNASA Earth Observatory – and this week we’ve been treated to three great images of volcanoes or volcanic landscapes from […]
Earlier this month, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation officially announced its 2009 Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research. Ten projects involving sixteen scholars from the country’s top research universities were […]
A roundup of the latest volcanically-related NASA Earth Observatory images, including Rabaul, Shiveluch and a great panorama of the Canary Islands.
nn This might not be directly related to a volcanic eruption, but it has been picked up by a lot of news sources, so I thought I’d give it a […]
The corruption of U.S. financial markets, whose CEOs habitually buy up expensive art, is mirrored by an unregulated art market where it is difficult to tell between hoax and truth.
I’ll try to stump readers again with a new Mystery Volcano Photo during this slow week in the world of eruptions.
Watch out turtles, Fernandina in the Galapagos is erupting again!