Daniel Ackerman
Science Writer at Freelance
Producer at WBUR-FM (Boston, MA)
🌎 Covering climate and science in 📻 and ✏️. Alum: @marketplace @Gimletmedia @sciam @MPRnews @WBUR
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1 week ago |
fdd.org | Daniel Ackerman |Ryan Brobst
See below for new language integrating Mark’s feedback. Hedged a bit and went with “the forthcoming B-21 Raider is expected to carry a single MOP”The GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) is a 30,000-pound class weapon designed to strike hardened, deeply buried targets.
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marketplace.org | Daniel Ackerman
The engine of this economy — consumers — slowed in May. Consumer spending is responsible for more than two-thirds of gross domestic product in the U.S. The gauge of the engine is, in this case, retail sales, which declined 0.9% from April, according to data out Tuesday morning from the Census Bureau. That was a bigger drop than analysts were expecting. Consumers pulled back especially on vehicles, down 3.5%, and on restaurant meals, down nearly 1%.
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marketplace.org | Daniel Ackerman
A Canadian shipbuilder wants to make icebreakers in Texas. Davie Shipbuilding last week announced plans to invest $1 billion into the project. The breakers would be for the U.S. Coast Guard to use in the Arctic. The deal comes amid a bipartisan push to revive the domestic shipbuilding industry. There was a time when U.S. shipbuilding was the envy of the world.
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2 weeks ago |
fdd.org | Daniel Ackerman |Andrea Stricker |Anthony Ruggiero
An ascendant “Axis of Aggressors” — China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea — is strengthening its nuclear capabilities and developing closer military, economic, and political ties. These actors aim to directly challenge the security of the United States and its allies and partners. Specifically, these adversaries seek to use nuclear weapons to intimidate or coerce the United States and its allies and serve as a shield to enable more aggressive foreign policies.
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marketplace.org | Daniel Ackerman
When Rich Harrill was 17, his dad came to him one day just after the school year ended. “And he said, ‘Be ready in the morning.’ I said, ‘Where are we going?’ He said, ‘Don't worry about it,’” he said. The next day, Harrill’s dad dropped him off at a peach farm on the edge of their town in South Carolina. That’s where Harrill worked for the next seven summers.
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A timely conversation with @drvolts as French pres. @EmmanuelMacron today reiterated his call for a ban on deep-sea mining at #COP27
Given how nasty mining for key clean-energy minerals is on land, interest is growing in mining them off the deep-sea floor. What should we think about this? I walk through the in's & out's with @DAckermanNews. https://t.co/ouEeaetfs8
