September 30 – October 4
This week — on the off chance that you haven’t heard — Christie won the National Association of Science Writers’ Science in Society Award for last year’s dynamit post about pink ribbon cancer denialism.
Cassie sets out to do a story on how Bolivia can have a navy without a coastline — and finds herself needing to execute some defense maneuvers of her own.
Runner’s high, we’ve heard of. But runner’s itch? Roberta explains.
Guest poster Bryn Nelson ruminates on shared memory, stored knowledge and tractorpalooza.
Ann and Abstruse Goose realise that an internet without back doors and side channels is probably not an internet.