by Rory Johnston | Aug 21, 2013 | Monitor
Is the Shale Forecast Curve Hyperbolic, or Exponential? Kate Mackenzie / Financial Times Alpha The US shale gas production boom took everyone by surprise — apparently that includes George Mitchell himself, who was credited for sparking the shale gas production surge...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Jun 26, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia H. Kushlis It’s not quite cucumber time in Russia. That’s at its height in August. The days are long; the nights are short but I suppose that doesn’t matter much for someone holed up in Sheremetyevo’s transit lounge unless of course there are no blackout...
by Spencer Ackerman | Feb 28, 2013 | Monitor
FORT MEADE, Md. — Wearing his Army dress uniform, a composed, intense and articulate Pfc. Bradley Manning took “full responsibility” Thursday for providing the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks with a trove of classified and sensitive military,...
by Robert Beckhusen | Jul 17, 2012 | Monitor
A CH-47 Chinook helicopter over Kabul, Afghanistan on June 4, 2007. Photo: DoD Insurgencies are amongst the hardest conflicts to predict. Insurgents can be loosely organized, split into factions, and strike from out of nowhere. But now researchers have demonstrated...
by Noah Shachtman | Jul 3, 2012 | Monitor
Air Force One waits for U.S. President Barack Obama in the fog at London’s Stansted Airport, Friday, April 3, 2009. Photo: AP / Kirsty Wigglesworth Pentagon-funded researchers have come up with a new plan for busting leakers: Spot them by how they search, and...
