My latest newsletter for Anthropocene Magazine: Do Carbon Prizes Work?
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New by me: New analysis of historic synthetic aperture radar data shows deadly Ukraine dam collapse may have been years in the making - but doesn't let Russians off the hook
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A small scoop: Ebb Carbon is planning the biggest ocean geoengineering plant in the US, in Port Angeles, WA. The pilot electrochemical plant will remove at least 500 tons of CO2 a year from seawater, and enhance alkalinity locally.
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New by me: How the ISS is disrupting Elon Musk's online gaming plans. The FCC has once again told SpaceX it can't deploy satellites below the ISS. It's a blow to what Musk calls 'the biggest single technical goal' of his Starlink service- reducing latency
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New by me for New Scientist: SpaceX aims to let astronauts avoid a radio blackout during re-entry. A Falcon 9 mission will have a Starlink terminal on board, testing communication at orbital velocities & one day, during hypersonic reentry. {paywall} newscientist.com/article/241636…

Laid off from TechCrunch , the website I built over the past decade with the help of many wonderful humans including Jordan Crook, Panzer, Alexia Bonatsos, and Matt Burns to name just a few. Open to work if you're hiring, and also snap up morgan sung from rat.house and Harri 🏳️‍⚧️ both also impacted

Interesting article in IEEE . While early J6 arrests relied largely on defendants' own social media posts, recent ones rely more on geolocation data & facial recognition technology. (cc: Ryan J. Reilly, tho he must already know) ...
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New by me at IEEE Spectrum: how tech is automating the January 6th investigations spectrum.ieee.org/capitol-riot-p…

A unique #AGU23 feature: 3 “climate parables” were acted out on stage tonight. In this one, from Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Ministry of the Future” novel, “Glacial Elevation Operations”is narrated by actor Conrad Cecil.

I'll be at AGU this Thurs and Fri with my Anthropocene Mag hat on, if anyone wants to say hi. Also check out our Climate Parables performance on Thursday evening, including a chat with Kim Stanley Robinson and Oliver Morton. Info here futureearth.org/event/climate-…

Every year, the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT offers academic-year fellowships to 10 science journalists from around the globe. Applications are now open, get yours started today! ksj.mit.edu/fello…

As Jon Allsop notes in his column cjr.org/the_media_toda… when I say 'not the odds, but the stakes' I mean election coverage should actually be organized around the stakes, not the latest odds. Many things can be part of it. Consquences for democracy should be the heart of it.

Holy heck! Did The Future of Mobility™ just come out of stealth? #ittfom

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New by me for IEEE Spectrum : another retinal implant company goes broke. Are high-tech bionic eyes just too difficult to bring to market?
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New by me: LTA Research gets airworthiness certificate for its full-scale airship spectrum.ieee.org/lta-airship-fa…

New info about Varda Space Industries's orbiting pharma factory - it likely won't be allowed to return to Earth this year. spectrum.ieee.org/space-manufact…

This is an important story about EVs and labor

I wrote about a couple of nuclear power companies, NuScale Power and Commonwealth Fusion Systems, for this round-up of climate tech innovators in MIT Technology Review. But the rest of the package is well worth reading too...
technologyreview.com/2023/10/04/108…