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8 October 2010
Science Friday Needs Our Help
Unlike the UK, where a TV and Radio license fee pays for the BBC’s slew of excellent educational programming, we have only NPR and PBS here in America. I’ve frequently compared NPR to the BBC with no money. That really about covers it….except. NPR is still fabulous. In an era where scientific ignorance seems to be at it’s peak, we have very few excellent programs on Science available. Yes, NOVA …
1 October 2010
Looking For Answers In Ancient Ice
Back in July I spent 9 days and (at that latitude) no nights at the top of the world. Scientists from over a dozen nations made history by recovering the oldest ice ever obtained from Greenland. Year after year the snow piles up in Greenland, and as it gets buried and compressed it eventually forms a hard clear ice. That ice is 2 km thick across most of Greenland. It’s …
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.