Weekly News Roundup: Birds and a Plane

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• The science of birds taking down a commercial plane—and how the danger could apply to NASA as well.

• “Scientific and legal integrity” to return to the EPA. And not a moment too soon.

• A ruckus brews over cookies at the White House—and we don’t mean the kind with sugar and sprinkles.

• Facebook graduates from a civil litigation tool to a crime-fighting tool.

• Recession? What recession? Pass the console.

• And not to spoil the pre-inaugural lovefest with bad news or anything, but that little salmonella outbreak has caused 2 more deaths, bringing the total to 5 dead and over 400 sickened.

January 16th, 2009 Tags: , ,
by Melissa Lafsky in Science Goes to Washington, The 2008 Election | 5 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

5 Responses to “Weekly News Roundup: Birds and a Plane”

  1. 1.   Meg Says:

    From the MSN article on bird strike:
    “After a bird strike in the United States, the remains, called snarge, are sent to the Smithsonian Institution’s Feather Identification Laboratory to identify the species, according to WikiPedia.”

    Umm, what? You used Wikipedia? Now I don’t know whether to believe what the author is saying or not, since Wikipedia is hardly an ironclad source!

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  3. 3.   Dave Says:

    Instead of spending all that money on bird detecting radar, why not fit the jet engines with a steel mesh cone over the front of the engine. Then the birds would be deflected from the engine. It has got to be cheaper

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