Steven Ashley

@steveashleyplus

Freelance science/tech writer-editor: SciAm NYT BBC NOVANext AutoEng NewSci Nautilus TheWeek PNAS PopSci Hakai BoingBoing FQXi PhysTdy MechEng ModernistCuisine

Joined April 2011

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  1. The world that America made is now going to go unmade, but we'll still have to sleep in it... (FT):

  2. Thinking yesterday of the fine irony of Ballard having become the literally prescient one, not the "hard science" crew. Not them at all

  3. FB is a social marketplace in which news is valuable mostly to help users project their constructed identities to friends/family/peers...

  4. FB's newsfeed personalized curation problem: it's not at all clear when the editor of 3rd-party content becomes an info content provider...

  5. Top defense/intelligence officials say Obama should remove Adm. Rogers from his NSA directorship post. (WSJ):

  6. To reduce the long-standing gender imbalance, the Dutch science academy plans to hold 2 women-only elections. (Sci):

  7. 1st power drawn from tidal turbines installed off the coast of Scotland. (ArsTech):

  8. UK Parliament approves 'most sweeping' home surveillance powers of any western democracy. (Grdian):

  9. Feeding seaweed to cows can cut their fart/methane output, Canadian farmer finds/researcher confirms. (CBC):

  10. Wedge-tailed eagles have brought down 9 survey drones--costing $100,000--flying over S African Goldfields. (ABC):

  11. It took 2 yrs for CO2 that was injected into basalt to transform into rock in a test. (ACS):

  12. Nearby, but unknown supercluster of galaxies--hidden by gas, dust, stars--may be moving the Milky Way. (Sci):

  13. Weather forecasting 'revolution' on the way: "GOES-R will be like going from B&W TV to super-high-def TV." (Space):

  14. Is an octopus in the parking garage climate change's canary in a coal mine? (MiamiHerald):

  15. Rare humpback whale sighting in the Hudson River near GW Bridge is 2nd in 2 days. (NJ):

  16. FB is a mktplace where news is valuable mostly to help ppl project fabbed identities to friends/family/peers. (NYT)

  17. First annual SciVizNYC conference, a gathering of artists and scientists around the topic of visualizing data.

  18. The Pope move to reshape the RC Church w/ more international, less-conservative cardinals. (Newsday): via

  19. That fad for nose piercing is at least 50,000 yrs old. Oz roo-bone nose piercing is oldest bone jewelry yet. (NSci):

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