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| Getting tired of the "A-hole" jokes on board a research ship Editor's Note: Peggy Delaney is sailing on a newly refurbished research vessel, the JOIDES Resolution, that left Honolulu on March 10 with an international group of researchers on board. The ship, supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, conducts scientific investigations beneath the seafloor by drilling the ocean floor and retrieving long “cores” of mud for testing and data collection. This is her ninth blog post. To see all her posts, see "60 Seconds in the Mid-Pacific."SOMEWHERE IN THE EQUATORIAL PACIFIC (April 18, 2009)--I am definitely at the "Will it never end?" stage of the cruise. I have been studiously ignoring the count of days that many folks keep, and that I have kept on other cruises. Counting forwards or backwards from the trip's 56 days, or so, just seems long, no matter which way you go. We are at our last site, nearly finished with the first hole. I let down my guard and let someone tell me how many days are left--16, plus a wake-up. This seems achievable, but still long. [More] rss.sciam.com |
The Rain's Maintained Speed Strain Is Now Explained [The following is an exact transcript of this podcast.]Could it be that our understanding of rain was all wet? A new study says that some drops of rain are falling faster than they should be. Which ultimately means that it may be raining less than we think. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Readers Respond on "The Expanding Universe" Quantifying QuandaryIn "The Post-Traumatic Stress Trap," David Dobbs reports on a growing number of experts who believe that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is being overdiagnosed. In support of this argument, Dobbs cites a 1990s study in which researchers asked veterans "about 19 specific types of potentially traumatic events.... Two years out, 70 percent of the veterans reported at least one traumatic event they had not mentioned a month after returning, and 24 percent reported at least three such events for the first time." These memories are assumed to be "new," but it may be that the subjects simply could not bring themselves to put their experiences into words so soon after those experiences occurred and that after some time they could. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Tuning In To The Insect Philharmonic [ The following is an exact transcript of this podcast. ]“Can you hear the end of the daytime insect? That’s the cicada. But I’m hearing crickets in the background too. And just listen for a second, listen to how many different sounds you can hear.” That’s Allison Beall of the Marshlands Conservancy, a wildlife sanctuary in Rye, New York. She led a twilight walk through the preserve on September 5th. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Can Local Governments Solve Global Warming? BOULDER, Colo. Here's what this affluent Rocky Mountain city of 100,000 does about a revenue shortfall in the darkest economic hour since the Great Depression: [More] rss.sciam.com |