Tracy Staedter

Tech Producer, Discovery News

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Web producer for Discovery News Tech by day. Fiction writer by night.

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RT @LeoDiCaprio: It's time to end the illegal trade of ivory & save the wild elephants. #handsoffmyparts t.co/DItJ4xbt

LeoDiCaprio: It's time to end the illegal ...

twitter.com — It's time to end the illegal trade of ivory & save the wild elephants. #handsoffmyparts http://t.co/DItJ4xbt

ElephantsNeverForget | Indiegogo

indiegogo.com — The uncertain future for elephants is investigated in the story of a young man and a young elephant who share a life that leads them to very different fates.
Earth End Game: Visualizing carbon emissions in NYC: amazing! t.co/0xB32Cwe

Visualizing carbon emissions in NYC: amazing!

earthendgame.blogspot.com — You may have heard that New York City added over 54 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in 2010. But other than recognising that it's a pretty big quantity, can you picture what that amount actually looks like?

Rarest Wolf Genetically Vulnerable: DNews Nugget

news.discovery.com — Rarest Wolf at Risk: The Ethiopian wolf evolved some 100,000 years ago and found a comfortable niche in life above 3,000 meters (1.86 miles), where it where it preys almost exclusively on high-altitude rodents. Now, fewer than 500 of Africa's only wolf species are thought to survive.

Sudsy Tech Sexier Than You Know

news.discovery.com — From magnetized soap to bubble displays, surfactants are sexier than they sound.

Goldilocks and the Three Kinds of Dialogue

tracystaedter.com — Dialogue in fiction is not simply people chatting away about their day. It's supposed to do a lot of hard work: characterize the speaker, advance the plot, convey subtext. In a writing workshop that I'm taking this fall, the instructor, author Adam Stumacher, gave us some great advice about dialogue that I wanted to share here.

Text Heavy | Tracy Staedter

tracystaedter.com — Like many people who write, I love language, and I especially admire writers that are able to compress details and time into just a few words. Look at this example from Jim Henry's story, "The Flood."
RT @treehugger: Wisconsin Invites Hunters to Kill 1/4 of its Wolves t.co/tkb9q2Pi Why does it have to come to this?

Wisconsin Invites Hunters to Kill 1/4 of its Wolves

treehugger.com — Up until January of this year, Great Lakes wolves were protected under the Endangered Species Act. But just ten months after being delisted, hunters are being given a chance to bait, trap, and shoot them for sport. In a dramatic turnaround for human-wolf relations, wildlife officials from Wisconsin there recently began issuing hunting permits allowing gamesmen to kill the formerly 'endangered' animals.
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