4 April – 20 May 2022 · closed archive
Fifty-four dispatches, then the desk went quiet.
Science filed every weekday for seven weeks — a rift crossing an Antarctic shelf, a feathered dinosaur's tail in amber, Cassini's last orbits, 160 new species out of the Mekong. Nothing has been added since. It is kept exactly as it was filed.
Powerful crack in Antarctic glacier — filed 25 April 2022
A neutralizing antibody has been found for 98% of the disease. HIV strains
Climate change has affected the reindeer population
A cold shower is good for your health
Almost 1500 new viruses identified
Every dispatch, by the day it was filed
54 dispatches over 34 publishing days. Weekends were never filed.
4 Apr
21222
11 Apr
12112
18 Apr
12211
25 Apr
31131
2 May
12122
9 May
·1212
16 May
21212
last filed
20 May 2022
9 May 2022 is the one weekday the desk missed.
Week of 16 May 20228 dispatches
Yraves face extinction
A unique house from nearly 4 thousand years ago. years the Scientific Journal of Maszkowice was discovered
Wolf stole a foresters’ camera in Puszcza Drawska (Drawsko Forest) Dziennik Naukowy
Week of 9 May 20226 dispatches
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A dozen of these fifty-four dispatches are about spacecraft — Cassini's last orbits, Dawn's images of Ceres, the Trace Gas Orbiter's first look at Mars. All of them quietly assume something the reports never spell out: nobody drives a probe. You send an instruction and you wait.
- One-way time, and the round trip you actually wait
- A range, not one number — the planets keep moving
- Any distance you like, in kilometres
- Nothing is sent anywhere; the sum runs on your device
Signal delay
One way—
There and back—