The AP’s Seth Borenstein does a solid job of producing a long story today, about earthquakes and the public’s perception of them. He could have tossed off a shorty and gotten himself off the hook with editors eager for this sort of inevitable story. A question arises after any spate of bad weather, earthquakes, volcanic [...]

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The Albuquerque Journal, bless its publisher’s heart, insists on trying to make a profit by not giving its product away entirely free on the internet. But the hurdles to reaching stories are not all that high and well worth it for this one. Science writer John Fleck has a front page column called A Third [...]

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Maybe it’s just me, but I felt I hit a sweet spot reading the Science Times this morning and am feeling chipper. I think it was pages 1 and 3 that did it. For those whose digital reading habits deny them the occasional pleasures of good on-page layout (or lucky, which can be better then [...]

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A few of you out there may have seen a long account Sunday in the New York Times sports section by Alan Schwarz about the overdue recognition of the work of a baseball historian. Her  husband, while alive, refused to acknowledge her as an equal co-author of their superb works – and he was the [...]

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