GRAIL probe crashes unlikely to disturb any historic lunar landing sites Beacon Staff Reporter In a grand finale to the $496 million gravity mapping mission, the NASA’s twin Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) probes will hit the lunar surface on Dec. 17. The cosmic collision has become inevitable as they have run out of [...]
Policy-based science of climate change winning the day at IPCC By Stephen Murgatroyd, PhD FRSA When we seek to understand the science of climate change, we need to understand that there are at least three kinds of science in use. The first we will call “conventional science” in which observable data either leads [...]
September 17, 2012 By Matt Palmer I have been busy the last few weeks with a number of things, and sadly that has kept me from writing here. Later this week I am heading off to New York for some meetings on my project, and then on October 5th I am off to Cannes for [...]
September 7, 2012 By Matt Palmer Ken Burns It’s been a while since I have watched a Ken Burns documentary, but he is a brilliant storyteller. I remember first hearing about his seminal series on the American Civil War in 1990, and I thought it was going to be a dry and boring piece. Yet, he made [...]
September 7, 2012 By Matt Palmer Ken Burns It’s been a while since I have watched a Ken Burns documentary, but he is a brilliant storyteller. I remember first hearing about his seminal series on the American Civil War in 1990, and I thought it was going to be a dry and boring piece. Yet, he made [...]
September 7, 2012 By Matt Palmer [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H37yNkrw3_4] It’s been a while since I have watched a Ken Burns documentary, but he is a brilliant storyteller. I remember first hearing about his seminal series on the American Civil War in 1990, and I thought it was going to be a dry and boring piece. Yet, he made that [...]
August 29, 2012 By Matt Palmer Bill Gates is working to transform the developing world with a toilet. Before I go into that, I want to offer a little personal context to the story. I made my first trip to Kenya in March of 2006 for the making of my feature documentary “Letters From Litein“. It [...]
June 27, 2012 By Matt Palmer The End is Nigh. The sky is falling. Oh, and oil may not be peaking, yet. This past Monday Andrew Revkin wrote in his NY Times Opinion blog, “A Fresh Look at Oil’s Long Goodbye“, about how the growth of oil production from shale/tight oil plays, particularly in the U.S , [...]
