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Sunday, August 29, 2010

SCIENCE NEWS: METEOR IMPACT CRATERS

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[Above & Left]: Aerial picture and geological map of the meteoric impact crater at Ries in Germany. [Below]: Landsat image of crat...
Saturday, August 21, 2010

GEOENGINEERING: PAST & PRESENT

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  The big theme of this blog is connectivity between people, places, things and ideas, and its content is often driven by chance and coincid...
Sunday, August 15, 2010

INSIDE DOPE: SPEED GOES GLOBAL

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(Top): Notable locations of manufacture and main trafficking routes of amphetamine group substances 2008-2009. (Below): Notable locations...
Tuesday, August 10, 2010

NUCLEAR FIRES: RUSSIA & USA

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The Russian Fires are causing threats to nuclear facilities and the area around Chernobyl. The story is being reported around the world. Her...

ARCHIVE: THE POISONING OF MOTHER RUSSIA

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This major news feature was published in the Sunday Times on 9th November 1980. It was an exclusive story that I sold to the paper, having b...

ARCHIVE: RUSSIAN CONSERVATIONIST ALGIRDAS KNYSTAUTUS

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This article was published in The Guardian on March 31st 1987. AFTER Chernobyl and the period of guilty secrecy immediately following t...
Sunday, August 08, 2010

PLANET NEWS: FORESTS ON FIRE

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Dense, billowing white and gray smoke pours from wildfires and shrouds the ground near Nizhny Novgorod, western Russia, as the Moderate R...
Saturday, July 31, 2010

WIKILEAKS 2: NEW DEVELOPMENTS

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  Illustration: Stuart Bradford. Source: ‘Click and Dagger Factory’ in MotherJones Since our last post on the subject back in April (s...

MUSIC: BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY

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  I’m a late-comer to the music of this man but I’m entranced. Like all the best things, I came upon it by chance – or not. I had just read...
Saturday, July 24, 2010

CULT BOOKS: DEREK RAYMOND, AMIN MAALOUF, JOSÉ SARAMAGO

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  Following my usual random practice of buying novels from second-hand bookshops for my morning novel-and-coffee sessions, these three ...

BI-WEEKLY.PL

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  I stumbled into this great Polish website while looking for information on the banquet that Picasso staged in 1908 at the Le Bateau-Lav...

TOP SECRET AMERICA

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There’s a lot of loose talk around about the ‘death of journalism’ and the decline of journalistic standards. so it was heartening and impre...
Sunday, July 18, 2010

BP: A DEEPER HOLE

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Source: Map of the northern Gulf of Mexico showing the nearly 4,000 active oil and gas platforms. NOAA One of the world’s biggest natur...