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Last week, John Holdren appeared for a 45 minute interview on NPR Science Friday with host Ira Flatow. Below the fold, I have pasted excerpts of his comments relative to […]
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The new activity at Indonesia’s Sinabung continues and now over 21,000 people have been evacuated. Meanwhile, Etna continues to rumble away, possibly towards a new eruptive cycle.
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This week’s On the MediaspotlightsRushmore Drive, the new search engine marketed to African Americans (audio above). As the program describes, the search engine uses a unique algorithm to find those […]
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AVO reports that it appears that the volcano has potentially erupted – or at least released a lot of steam and (possibly) ash. So much for the end of activity.
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