This BBC report live from Kirkenes in the High North of Norway talks about Russia-NATO relations, hundreds of refugees on bicycle entering Norway, the firing of an editor reporting on cross-border relations, and points to an uncertain but hopeful future for Arctic border life in a place called a test of east-west relations.
An excellent travel story about Norway from The New York Times with a final destination in Kirkenes, a tiny border-town north of the Arctic Circle, where I spent five weeks this summer reporting on Norwegian-Russian border issues and Arctic science. Beautiful Norway.
Ebola coming to America has been called a “situation,” a “crisis” and a “scare,” among other things. Here’s a 4-minute clip from NPR on the chances of the virus becoming airborne or mutating.
[Image from Quantum Diaries: A french birthday party and update on the Higgs boson, sterile neutrinos, and a physicist and a historian walking into a coffee shop are all good finds in the pages of Quantum Diaries.]
Quantum Diaries, don’t judge too quickly – there’s real substance to this site: “This project is not just about physics; it’s about being a physicist.” The site is a conglomeration, a revolving panel of about 100 bloggers writing narrative diaries about their “families, hobbies and interests, as well as their latest research findings and challenges that face them in their labs.”
It’s hard not to find something of interest from a global network of particle physicists writing topics from “the Higgs versus Descartes” to “the fifth dimension that Einstein missed.”
Supported by InterAction, a promoter of cross-border particle-physics cooperation, the blog site is “not just about physics; it’s about being a physicist.”
A local upstart reaching people by combining the power of information with food news in Denton, Texas.
Also, see research from Feed Denton’s Andrew J. Miller–>
This Science magazine interactive features asks, “Who Does Peer Review?”
http://scicomm.scimagdev.org/