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For Atlas Obscura: Why Scientists Are Worried about a Landslide No One Saw or Heard

Here’s the lead (er, lede) I pitched to Atlas Obscura, which (to my delight) they ran unchanged, giving me a welcome chance to write an interesting story I learned about at the AGU Fall Meeting from Kevin Krajick of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory: If a steep mountainside in a remote national park gives way andContinue reading “For Atlas Obscura: Why Scientists Are Worried about a Landslide No One Saw or Heard”

Big Mo: Landslide Win Predicted for Obama in Missouri

Jay Roberts, an experienced St. Louis pol, tells Off the Bus: "We’re going to be one of the top four-to-six battlegrounds and at the end of the day, we’re going to go blue and take back a state that has historically been Democratic — and that includes sweeping a new Democratic governor, Jay Nixon, intoContinue reading “Big Mo: Landslide Win Predicted for Obama in Missouri”