Achenblog: April 24, 2005 - April 30, 2005
Gene's Oeuvre
Weingarten is talking to my students tonight, God help them. Here are the pieces they will have read, carefully, as an aid in preparing cogent questions for the Genester: If You Go Chasing Rabbits Fear Itself None of the...
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April 28, 2005; 2:34 PM ET |
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Ivory-billed Woodpeckers Sighted!!
It's not every day that an "extinct" species comes back to life. (Next: The passenger pigeon.) Look at this breaking bulletin from the Science magazine folks. They've analyzed a video frame by frame and concluded that there really is...
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Joel Achenbach
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April 28, 2005; 11:59 AM ET |
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Latest Rough Draft: More Solo Dad
Here's my latest Sunday column, a rip-off of previous blog items about being Solo Dad. I plagiarize myself with wild abandon, and by gosh it feels good. Sorry some of the links on this blog don't work lately. Hal's...
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Joel Achenbach
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April 27, 2005; 5:36 PM ET |
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American Idol Scandal
American Idol last night was a slow-motion multi-car pileup. Bo and Vonzell sang well, but Bo isn't really an amateur singer (he's secretly about 50 years old). Carrie won't get voted out, because she is the floor model at...
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Joel Achenbach
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April 27, 2005; 11:11 AM ET |
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Brian Greene
There are a lot of bad links on the blog right now, probably because dot.com changed publishing systems (I have no idea what that means, exactly). I can't fix the links because I don't know how to get into...
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Joel Achenbach
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April 26, 2005; 10:30 PM ET |
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No Flaming, Please
I commend to everyone the comments posted in answer to Tom's daffy speed of light question (previous item), but must warn readers that we will not tolerate flaming. Vituperativeness is forbidden on this blog! What happened, in this case,...
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Joel Achenbach
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April 26, 2005; 5:04 PM ET |
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Tom Befuddled by Speed of Light
My editor, Tom, whose last contribution to the blog brought him only misery and derision, has hit me with an imponderable speed-of-light question, to wit: "According to Einstein (I think), the velocity of light is the one constant in...
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Joel Achenbach
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April 26, 2005; 8:57 AM ET |
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Arbor Day Overkill
It's hard to believe that Arbor Day has once again crept up on us. It's this Friday -- the 133rd annual celebration of the holiday founded by the great J. Sterling Morton of Nebraska. I had vowed that this...
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Joel Achenbach
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April 25, 2005; 8:35 PM ET |
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More Journalism Tips
This morning went to Riggs Library at Georgetown for a ceremony where student journalists get all sorts of prizes for being talented and young and having their whole future ahead of them instead of being washed-up and full of...
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Joel Achenbach
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April 25, 2005; 3:42 PM ET |
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