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When it comes to climate change, deforestation and toxic waste, the assumption has been that conservative views on these topics are intractable. Delete the scoop?
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I'm a science journalist, but I came to science writing and journalism about 10 years ago while I was a chemistry Ph.D. student at Indiana University. Though I finished, I went straight into journalism internships after I defended ... Delete the scoop?
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Zivkovic is the Blogs Editor at Scientific American. Nice perspective on science writing and description of ScienceOnline. Slivovitz, what is in the box in this photo, is plum brandy.
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Still a little groggy from my return from Africa, I came across a serendipitously came across a tweet - A Call for Proposals for the 2013 ...
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Those wishing to maximize the benefits of public research must require more than free access, says Cameron Neylon [mdash] they must facilitate reuse.
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What do you make of non-open-access journals weighing in on this? I was surprised this article wasn't behind the paywall.
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Scientific American (blog)Re-thinking the way colleges teach critical thinkingScientific American (blog)The combination of science writing and education has influenced my approach to both, which share a common, overarching goal: to reach out to...
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It's a detective story with a century-old crime: The forgery of a supposed missing link in human evolution that went undetected for decades.
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Piltdown Man: a classic in rogue science communication.
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A session on scientific reproducibility today quickly became a discussion about perverse incentives. Robust research takes more time and complicates otherwise compelling stories.
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The agency may start a pilot program that would require reviewers to evaluate grant applications without knowing who had submitted them.
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Scientific figures and graphs are uncelebrated and utilitarian, a means to an end, unnoticed by graphics gurus and information designers -- but some stand out. They're the scientific world's folk art.
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A new guide to peer review has just been launched to help the public make sense of research claims. People are bombarded with claims in newspapers and on the internet that are based on scientific studies.
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The bioinformatics expert says scientists should be trained in effective visual communication
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So, you’re a chemist and you’ve finally decided to find out what all the fuss is about with this thing called Twitter. You decide to sign up, but, for whatever reason, you don’t f...
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Doctors may soon be using a system in the operating room that recognizes hand gestures as commands to tell a computer to browse and display medical images of the patient during a surgery.
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Gestures are an important mode of communication.
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As 2012 is winding down, I thought I’d take a look back at volume 4 of the journal. This isn’t a terribly in-depth analysis, and it’s based on what we’ve published rather than what was submitted, but you might find it a little bit interesting.
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Using Worldle to communicate "weighting" of chemistry words in Nature Chemisty article for 2012.
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Although glutamate was discovered in 1908, it wasn't until the 1980s that it came to be described as 'umami', the fifth flavor. It is a ...
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Science documentary parody: subtle and instructive. Enjoy.
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One of the promises of altmetrics – an approach to measuring attention on research papers that relies on alternative measures to citations, such as downloads, social media mentions, and collections in online libraries – is that it could provide an...
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Alan Alda's Challenge to Scientists: What is Time?KUHF-FMAlan Alda founded The Flame Challenge last year to promote better science communication, and he started by asking scientists to come up with a kid-friendly explanation for a flame.
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Reproducibility Initiative aims to speed up preclinical research.
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40th anniversary of the "Blue Marble" photograph, a film based on interviews with five astronauts.
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Not all research is easily justified—but what do you do when you can't even justify it to yourself?
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