Monthly Archives: October 2011

Must the World Starve?

Posted on October 16, 2011 by Stephen Luntz

Today is blog action day, and I signed up to write a post about this year’s issue, food. I had the usual good intentions of doing some research for the topic, but now find myself running out of time to … Continue reading →

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Congratulations

Posted on October 12, 2011 by Stephen Luntz

Since Brian Schmit’s Nobel victory I’ve had plenty of people say “I bet you wish you’d nabbed him for the book”. Naturally I do. I had no idea about his second career as a winemaker, but his research alone was … Continue reading →

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Irony

Posted on October 8, 2011 by Stephen Luntz

Predicting earthquakes is a much less developed field than predicting climate; perhaps even than predicting weather. So it seems pretty harsh to charge seismologists with manslaughter for not releasing warnings they were not confident had much reliability. On the other … Continue reading →

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Wow

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Stephen Luntz

I can’t say I saw this coming. I’ve interviewed Professor Schmidt several times and was certainly aware he’s an astronomer of great distinction, but had no idea a Nobel was on the cards.I wonder whether he’s just being modest in … Continue reading →

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Striking While The Rock Is Hot

Posted on October 1, 2011 by Stephen Luntz

Just three months ago a paper was published reporting the first observed case in the wild of tool use in fish. Now, a different technique has been observed being applied by the same species but a different country. And this … Continue reading →

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