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Dec 13, 2024 | 
csmonitor.com | Jason Thomson
Putting solar panels in space means you can collect the sun’s rays regardless of the weather, and, proponents say, it can help power remote parts of the world where infrastructure may not exist. The technology is advancing:Why We Wrote ThisSolar panels in space have potential to bring power to remote locations or to areas hit by natural disaster. Private companies and others are working to refine the technology.
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Feb 15, 2024 | 
csmonitor.com | Jason Thomson
There’s a site in Cornwall, in southern England, called Woodland Valley Farm. Here, farmer Chris Jones allows beavers to roam in an enclosed five-acre plot. Their natural dams, he says, have helped control repeated flooding of the downstream village. Centuries after beavers were hunted to extinction in Britain, efforts are now underway by environmentalists to reintroduce the creature.
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Feb 15, 2024 | 
everand.com | Jason Thomson
There’s a site in Cornwall, in southern England, called Woodland Valley Farm. Here, farmer Chris Jones allows beavers to roam in an enclosed five-acre plot. Their natural dams, he says, have helped control repeated flooding of the downstream village. Centuries after beavers were hunted to extinction in Britain, efforts are now underway by environmentalists to reintroduce the creature.
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
whiskymag.com | Jason Thomson |Felipe Schrieberg
The words ‘passion’ and ‘enthusiasm’ are thrown around a lot in the origin stories of whisky makers, but it would be hard to find two people more passionate and enthusiastic about the craft than Ian Stirling and Paddy Fletcher, founders of the newly opened Port of Leith Distillery. The lifelong friends grew up in Edinburgh and moved to London in their 20s, Fletcher to pursue a career in finance and Stirling entering the wine trade.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
whiskymag.com | Jason Thomson |Felipe Schrieberg |Stefan van Eycken
For 225 years, the whiskies of Highland Park have shouted, “ORKNEY” – a bold yet simple assertion that cuts through the lore and myth of a distillery with a storied past. Still, every drop of Highland Park, soaked in the wildness of Scotland’s Orkney Islands, recounts a thousand legends.
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Nov 19, 2023 | 
jasondavidt.medium.com | Jason Thomson
I contracted COVID just after returning home from the Yukon (damn airplanes), and continued to test positive for 10 days beginning on 24 October, though I felt rough for only the first 3. Soon after, however, both of my kids also caught the virus - neither was very sick, but my poor daughter was put into isolation for 10 days, as per the policy of the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario. She didn't need this additional complication, given how poorly things had already been going.
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Nov 2, 2023 | 
jasondavidt.medium.com | Jason Thomson
October 22, 2023 - "Kind of in Survival Mode"In August, a woman who I'd been messaging with sent me an update from Vancouver, where she had travelled on holiday, in part to watch her daughter compete in an ultimate frisbee tournament. Her stay in British Columbia had been extended, she reported, as her daughter had required surgery after breaking both of her hands during a game.
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Oct 13, 2023 | 
csmonitor.com | Jason Thomson
NASA is heading to a world unlike any yet explored by humankind – a large asteroid believed to be made almost entirely of metal. It will take six years, after the successful launch today, for a spacecraft to reach an asteroid called Psyche that could open new windows into everything from the formation of planets like Earth to the prospect of mining in space.
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Oct 13, 2023 | 
news.yahoo.com | Jason Thomson
It is a world unlike any yet explored by humankind. No spacecraft, no probe of any kind, has ventured close to anything like this – a large asteroid believed to be made almost entirely of metal. Now NASA is on the way there. After a successful launch today, a space probe will begin a six-year journey to an asteroid called Psyche that could open new windows into everything from the formation of planets like Earth to the prospect of mining in space.
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Oct 13, 2023 | 
scribd.com | Jason Thomson
It is a world unlike any yet explored by humankind. No spacecraft, no probe of any kind, has ventured close to anything like this – a large asteroid believed to be made almost entirely of metal. Now NASA is on the way there. After a successful launch today, a space probe will begin a six-year journey to an asteroid called Psyche that could open new windows into everything from the formation of planets like Earth to the prospect of mining in space.
