Doorbell camera catches rare footage of meteorite striking home’s front walkway 25JAN2025

 Doorbell camera catches rare footage of meteorite striking home’s front walkway

By Jackie Wattles, CNN, January 22, 2025

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/22/science/meteorite-strike-doorbell-camera/index.html

See – And Hear – Meteorite Crash To Earth

Weather Channel, January 21, 2025

https://weather.com/science/space/video/see-and-hear-meteorite-crash-to-earth-on-sidewalk

Shocking thing:' Watch first-of-its-kind video of meteorite crashing outside a home

Amaris Encinas, USA Today, January 23, 2025

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/01/23/meteorite-strikes-earth-charlottetown-canada-video/77910791007/

Yours,

Paul H.

Fossil Ivory Smuggler Facing Prison in Russia 18JAN2025

Fossil Ivory Smuggler Facing Prison in Russia

Smuggling fossil ivory doesn’t pay in Russia.

‘Ice ivory’ smuggler foiled in Russia – officials (PHOTO)

https://www.rt.com/russia/610015-mammoth-tusk-smuggling-russia/

One more article is:

The climate crisis has sparked a Siberian mammoth tusk gold rush

Sabrina Weiss, Wired, November 8, 2019

https://www.wired.com/story/mammoth-tusk-hunters-russia-china/

Yours,

Paul H.

Preprints often make news. Many people don’t know what they are 08JAN2025

 Preprints often make news. Many people don’t know what they are

The public needs context about unreviewed manuscripts, survey suggests

Jeffrey Brainard, Science Advisor, SAA, January 6, 2025

https://www.science.org/content/article/preprints-often-make-news-many-people-don-t-know-what-they-are

The open access paper is:

Fleerackers, A., Ratcliff, C.L., Wicke, R., King, A.J. and Jensen, J.D., 2024.

Public understanding of preprints: How audiences make sense of unreviewed

research in the news. Public Understanding of Science, p.09636625241268881.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09636625241268881

Yours,

Paul H.