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Retired NPR Science correspondent. Audio storytelling in the service of nature. Two books, two kids, one life. Jazz, please.

Washington D.C.
Joined September 2008
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  1. Retweeted
    21 hours ago

    European obsession with precautionary principle led them to ban GM foods even with no evidence of harm. Now many are suspending AstraZeneca vaccine even after the European Medicines Agency has pleaded that benefit far outweighs the risk

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  2. Mar 21

    The Master.

    John McPhee, who turned 90 earlier this month, wrote his first piece for The New Yorker in 1963. For this week’s Sunday Reading collection, from the , we celebrate McPhee’s extraordinary and ongoing career.
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  3. Mar 20

    Can’t top it, but I’d like to say goodbye to “hardscrabble.”

    My nomination for dumbest cliché in journalism: "bully pulpit." Top it if you can.
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  4. Mar 20

    It’s a priesthood. Like the Latin liturgy, it’s meant to intimidate and dazzle the ‘ignorant’. Academics speak in tongues because, well...they’re just so brilliant. Makes me want to puke. And they wonder why the common folk accuse academia of ‘elitism.’

    I know, academic writing: fish in a barrel. But imagine a student eagerly signing up for a course on Middlemarch, Jane Eyre, Vanity Fair and Our Mutual Friend; starts reading the assigned book about them called The Novel As Event; and finds it filled with passages such as these.
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  5. Mar 19

    Awesome choice! The best!

    White House appoints former NOAA head and prominent marine scientist & ecologist to lead climate/environment efforts within the Office of Science and Technology Policy, marking another key climate science hire.
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  6. Mar 18

    Rand Paul is a dick. Not just any kind of dick. A stupid dick.

    5:40
    Sen. : "If we're not spreading the infection, isn't it just theater? You have the vaccine and you're wearing two masks, isn't that theater? Dr. Anthony Fauci: "Here we go again with the theater. Let's get down to the facts." Full video here:
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  7. Mar 18

    The last time FEMA tried to raise rates, it was Dem Congresswoman Maxine Waters who stopped it. She had been all for it til her constituents complained about rate hikes. Politicians want to have their cake and eat it too.

    The Biden administration has pitched climate-sound policy as an economic win for households. But that's often not the case -- and Schumer's pushback on flood insurance reform shows why.
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  8. Mar 18

    Excellent analysis but so little said about how much North Sea nat gas contributed to lowering emissions by putting coal out of business. As nat gas did in the US as well.

    The UK is now half way toward meeting its net-zero goal. Some great new analysis by my colleague :
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  9. Mar 18

    In fact, Democrats in Congress have a sad history of cutting FEMA off at the knees when it tried to fix the hopelessly indebted flood insurance program. No guts.

    Two stories this week with the same key point: The next big climate change fight is who should bear the cost -- all of us, or mainly the households most at risk? 1: Coastal towns 2: Flood insurance
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  10. Mar 18

    What if we ate the seaweed instead of the cows?

    Feeding cows a few ounces of seaweed daily could sharply reduce their contribution to climate change via
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  11. Mar 17

    Could you write a line that tells me what this tweet is really about?

    This heavy handed editor loves this...
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  12. Mar 15

    There must be more like this. The debt is deep, and everlasting.

    BREAKING: The Senate has confirmed Deb Haaland to lead the Interior Department, making her the first Native American cabinet secretary in U.S. history.
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  13. Mar 14

    How about mayonnaise?

    Replying to @Anne_M_Burrows
    I’m not there yet but I can relate to a degree. Certainly better than partially dissected bodies.
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    Mar 14

    The "Biden hasn't given a press conference" "concern" seems lame. He's obviously working very hard, rather than bragging and waiting for somebody to tell him what to sign, and he has an active press office that isn't full of chuds.

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  15. Mar 14

    Brilliant!

    March 14 -- Happy Pi Day!
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  16. Mar 14

    ‘How Can I Miss You When You Won’t Go Away?’ Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks.

    plz send breakup songs
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  17. Mar 13

    ‘Pancho and Lefty.’ ‘If I Needed You.’

    Sometimes it sucks to forget Townes Van Zandt songs exist, but then the hit of dopamine you get when you remember again is 👌
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  18. Mar 13

    Bought a new bottle of bay leaves. Came with this top. What were they thinking? This is why we have too much plastic floating around. Oh, it’s organic. Guess that makes it ok.

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  19. Mar 13

    No he never was.

    Replying to @gbrumfiel @christophjoyce
    You’re not nice
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  20. Retweeted
    Mar 13

    Happy Saturday to everyone but especially Yo-Yo Ma who got his second dose at our local vaccine clinic today and played a concert for everyone during the 15 min waiting period

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