Distinguished Science writer Dr. Richard Kerr walked the plank this afternoon in response to this morning’s Knight Science Journalism Tracker inquiry of science writers.
Charles Petit’s casual post brought quick attention from the old-school dean of science writing. Kerr implored his press colleagues to, in effect: Move on, move on…There is nothing to see here.
See here:
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Crickets….
Watts Up?
Big Media again tend to ignore PNAS report that comet blast – or blasts – renewed Ice Age, canceled Clovis culture, mammoths, giant beavers…
— KSJT
The authors worked mainly under grants from the NSF. It doesn’t give money to just anybody.
— KSJT
From the Knight Science Journalism Tracker
A quite perfectly delightful hypothesis holds that air bursts…
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Well, well. A cat just leapt from the bag.
I don’t have an “as published” copy yet (despite being a co-author). But I will post one just as soon as I do.
See here for UCSB Press Release: Study Jointly Led by UCSB Researcher Finds New Evidence Supporting Theory of Extraterrestrial Impact
These scientists have identified three contemporaneous levels more than 12,000 years…
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The Aalsterhut / Hut van Mie Pils
The recent paper from van Hoesel et al., Nanodiamonds and wildfire evidence in the Usselo Horizon postdate the Allerød-Younger Dryas Boundary, confirming nanodiamonds in the Dutch Younger Dryas Boundary (YDB), or Usselo Horizon, establishes a cynical new low for the intellectual integrity of our debate.
Despite confirmation of this extraordinary material in the…
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Den Aengus Fort on the Tsunami Wracked Aran Islands offshore of Fanore Beach
Irish Examiner
6,000-year-old settlement poses tsunami mystery
By Andrew Hamilton
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
Archeologists have uncovered evidence of pre-farming people living in the Burren more than 6,000 years ago — one of the oldest habitations ever unearthed in Ireland.
Radiocarbon dating of a shellfish midden…
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