I realize there's been a slump in the number of posts from this blog. Too many deadlines are showing up too close together on the calendar. In fact, things have become so bad that I'm whoring out my precious 9-hour sleep cycles to get more work done. Anybody can tell you that sleeping for 6 hours is not for the students of print journalism. Simply not.

But bear with me. More posts will come, and many of them have been personally researched. In the meantime, I would redirect you to a fitting riposte by Paul Raeburn to David Whitehouse's accusation in the Huffington Post that the golden age of science journalism, if there ever was one, is long past. I'd like to remind you that this, right now, is the golden age, but I think Raeburn says it better.