Posted in Media, Politics on Nov 23rd, 2012 No Comments »
“We all know that Centrix makes dentistry easier, but does that mean that we have to travel to the South Pole to do so? [Dr. Bob] from Colorado says YES! He’s shown here holding a box of Encore® A/F, our self-cure composite core buildup material, and a Centrix E/Z™ syringe.” [...] “…and of course, Centrix [...]
Posted in Politics on Oct 5th, 2012 No Comments »
Posted in Denver, Politics on Sep 3rd, 2012 No Comments »
NSF’s Antarctic Support Contract Reading Room is a collection of workaday documents, including payments and terms of service with subcontractors such as Best Recycling, the University of Arizona (for the South Pole Food Growth Chamber), the US Postal Service, and the Pacific Regional Veterinary Command (for sanitation inspection services). Within these documents one can learn [...]
Posted in Politics, Popular Antarctica on Sep 2nd, 2012 No Comments »
Figure 1. is from More and Better Science in Antarctica Through Increased Logistical Effectiveness (pdf 10MB), NSF’s “Report of the U.S. Antarctic Program Blue Ribbon Panel” July 2012
Posted in Media, Politics on Sep 2nd, 2012 No Comments »
Who goes there? Science, fiction, and belonging in Antarctica by Elena Glasberg is, in part, an ice-pertinent and comprehensive review of John Carpenter’s “The Thing”: Tracing this story of the threatening alien ‘thing’ through its two filmic iterations – The Thing From Another World (1951) and The Thing (1982) – this article examines the implicit [...]
Posted in Media, Politics on Aug 30th, 2012 No Comments »
From the essay “America Dreams” by Connie Samaras: Although only about 10,000 people have been to the South Pole since it was first explored, per capita it may be more photographed than Disney World. I did not encounter one person, support personnel or researchers, who did not have a camera. Once my identity was established [...]
Posted in Denver, Media, Polar Programs, Politics on Jun 1st, 2011 No Comments »
In this report (pdf), Oklahoma Senator Tom A. Coburn identifies “over $3 billion in mismanagement at NSF”. Newspapers such as The Washington Times focused on McMurdo jell-o wrestling as a particularly egregious and ridiculous waste of taxpayer dollars. Senator Coburn’s report describes: In their spare time NSF employees have been jello-wrestling in Antarctica at the [...]
Posted in Polar Programs, Politics on Jan 14th, 2011 No Comments »
Posted in Politics on May 19th, 2009 No Comments »
Here’s the new Korean Icebreaker. The Korean Land Ministry calls it a “marine powerhouse”. Now that the Polar Sea and the Polar Star are on their way out, it won’t be long before the USAP is renting it for a tidy sum.
