Monthly Archive: October 2011

Science in the blogosphere: Boing Boing

As newsrooms downsize they tend to cut specialty journalists, like science reporters, from their staff or shrink science sections.

What’s Happening This Week?

From exploring the disappearance of the honeybee to lessons the American West could learn from Australia’s long-term battles with drought and floods, Boulder is looking at a wide array of issues this week. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments …

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Making Headlines This Week

Protestors Rally Against Natural Gas Pipeline Opponents are weighing in on the debate over building a natural gas pipeline that would run through the New York region. The proposed $850 million development would introduce 15 miles of new pipeline, running from Staten Island to Bayonne and Jersey City, before crossing into Manhattan. Five miles of …

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John McPhee Wins Wallace Stegner Award

Pulitzer prize-winning author John McPhee has another accolade to add to his collection after the Center of the American West presented him with the Wallace Stegner Award Thursday.

After the Storm: a Hoary Morning

Last Tuesday, a veritable gusher of moisture-laden air spewing eastward from the Pacific Ocean took aim at the Front Range of Colorado. Just a day earlier the region had seen record high temperatures.

What is Wild? A Soft Spot for Civilization

In this, the 7th segment of Hermans’ wildness saga, we visit the primates of Borneo. In addition to plentiful proboscis monkeys, Hermans captures a crab-eating macaque’s awkward debacle with a praying mantis and a successful, if disappointing, search for an orangutan.

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