But leaving aside the whole crazy circumstances thing, I wanted to draw your attention to the media coverage of the meteor strike in particular. Here’s a sample of headlines from around the world:

Russian meteor blast injures at least 1,000 people, authorities say – CNN

More than 1000 injured as meteor debris strikes Russia – National Business Review

Great balls of fire! Meteor blast hurts 1000 Russians – The Australian

Streaking meteor explodes in Russian sky, injuring nearly 1000 – NBC News

Meteor hits Russia, 1,000 injured – Emirates 24/7

Hundreds injured in Russian meteor blast – The Independent

Exploding Meteor Smashes Windows, Injuring 100 in Russia’s Urals – Bloomberg

Meteor injures up to 1000 in Russia – Irish Times

Russian meteorite leaves 1,000 injured - The Financial Times

I’m going to stop here because you surely get the idea. Leaving aside allegations that the meteorite was Russian — for the love of god, It Came From Outer Space! — the headlines share a common theme: a meteor struck Russia, and it injured 1,000 people.

But I noticed that the Jerusalem Post had a little bit of a unique perspective:

Perfect.

There’s been so much action this week – with teams in NYC, Dallas, Chicago, and at Yale.  In Dallas, we presented to Women Moving Millions.  In NYC, we ran public programs and held media meetings.  Our Chicago team – Debbie Seigel, Michele Weldon, Katherine Lanpher and Zeba Khan — will be running a public program on October 1st, hosted by Northwestern University, with forty women in the room (a record).

Successes this week included:

*Qanta Ahmed published an op-ed on Saudi women in today’s NY Daily News, which was the most emailed article of the day. Qanta is now on her 20th published column since coming through OpEd project, many of which have been featured in the Washington Post and USA today. Read You Don’t Know Saudi Arabian Women. 

*Marielle Anzelone, an urban ecologist, had a gorgeous column in the NYT  this week on the beginning of Autumn –
 it’s the first of a 13-week online column on urban ecology that was offered her after she published her first op-ed ever in May, in the NYT print edition, after coming through The OpEd Project. Read: Autumn Unfolds in a Patch of Urban Forest. 

*Yale Scholar Laura Wexler (part of our OpEd Project at Yale fellowship program)  had a beautiful CNN column on the Troy Davis execution, and the unreliability of eyewitness identification and memory. As a result of this, Laura will be on Minnesota Public Radio today.  Listen to the interview.

*Also,Yale astrophysicist Meg Urry wrote a great CNN piece on the expanding galaxy – her fourth for CNN in the past few months that we’ve been working with her (she also did one for The Huffington Post). Yesterday, CNN offered Meg a monthly column, and potential TV spots.  Find Meg’s columns here.

*Finally, Fordham/Princeton scholar Carina Ray (we are launching OpEd Project fellowships at Princeton and Fordham both in the next two months) published an enlightening article in the Huffington Post this week titled The Gaddafi Mercenary Myth; and Sarah Fitts, who came through our NYC public program just this last weekend, published her persuasive piece Freedom is an Electric Car, also in the Huffington Post.

Wow.  What a week!