It's the same topic but it's a different story. The science and engineering indicators report linked in the first paragraph hadn't even been published when the

It's the same topic but it's a different story. The science and engineering indicators report linked in the first paragraph hadn't even been published when the first story was written. Also she provides a link to the previous NYT story you've pointed out directly in her blog post (ctrl-f "As my colleague Christopher Drew wrote in an article in November"). I read this as a "If you liked that article you might want to check out some of this new data" sort of post.