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It was either The Police or Soundgarden
September 3, 2024
September is shaping up to be extraordinarily busy even by my standards, so this (long overdue) newsletter installment will be to the point. First up: my...
Saving the planet from space rocks with radar
July 22, 2024
I have only one new publication scheduled this month, but it’s a big one: a feature article for AGU Eos about using radar to help defend Earth from hazardous...
Let This Radicalize You
July 4, 2024
“Let this radicalize you rather than lead you to despair.” -Mariame Kaba Honestly, things in general are not good right now, both in the United States where...
Hot Sun, Cold Ice
June 5, 2024
The newsletter silence lately has been because I have been working on no fewer than seven major pieces over the past months. One fell through, but two of...
Gary-mandering and Feline MAYHEM
March 20, 2024
I learned a few years ago that we all pronounce "gerrymandering" wrong. We say it like "Jerry", but 19th century Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry...
Ice Clouds and a New Cat
March 6, 2024
I know which bit of this newsletter is gonna grab your attention, so I'll keep the sciency bit brief. Turbulence Giveth, Turbulence Taketh Away High-altitude...
What Do Journalists Owe Our Communities
February 25, 2024
I know, it has been some time since my last newsletter. Life and health problems have intervened. However, I'm sitting here on a Sunday afternoon writing...
Past Tense, Present Tension
December 7, 2023
It's premature to wrap up 2023 just yet, but even with a month to go, I can declare it to have been one of the most difficult since becoming a full-time...
This Topic Was Inevitable
November 21, 2023
This Thursday is Thanksgiving in the United States, so it's an abbreviated work-week in which I must nevertheless pack a full normal amount of work. As a...
Mars, Wildebeest Math, and Vultures
November 7, 2023
Dear Dormice and Mad Hatters, I guess this is issue 3, so I'm keeping this thing going. As it sometimes happens, after a drought two new articles published...
Science, Human Rights, and Responsibility
October 17, 2023
One of my biggest science-writing influences is the late evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002). He had the enviable position of writing a...
Welcome to the Bowler Hat Science newsletter!
October 3, 2023
Welcome to my second attempt at a newsletter! My hope is to send two of these every month, consisting of up to three parts: Summaries and possible further...
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