#NSWASCIWIRE
Recent work by our members#nswasciwire highlights the published writing of NSWA members each month. Would you like to see your writing featured? Please suggest an item online or send a link or PDF file to Susan Keown at sciencewire@nwscience.org. The NSWA Board of Directors determines what material to present. We look forward to highlighting your work.
Bailey: Old and New for Salmon
Ride the waves with Kevin Bailey, who recently watched the modern version of traditional Native American reef-net fishing. In a piece for Grist, Kevin relates the rationale, the mechanics, and some of the ear-catching jargon of this sustainable technique. Read Kevin’s...
Luce: A Mom’s Dilemma
When Casey Luce's daughter fell, Casey and the doctors thought she might have a concussion. Did the little girl need a CT scan? Casey was well aware of the benefits and risks, since she studied the effects of medical imaging radiation on children. At the Group Health...
Harris: Drone Tracking
In an exclusive for The Guardian, Mark Harris explores a problem that has the Federal Aviation Administration "panicking, just a little bit." Drones clutter our airspace, with more expected as the unmanned minicopters are deployed for deliveries and other services....
Tompa: Making Time
Rachel Tompa's piece in Hutch News mixes marijuana, suspended animation, and musings on the nature of time—all covered in Dr. Mark Roth's Fred Hutch talk to an admittedly stoned but highly engaged audience. The lecture that @Rachel_Tompa covered was part of a series...
Gibbs: Better Than Star Wars
Wayt Gibbs, contributing editor to Scientific American, kicks off a special physics and astronomy issue that has stories on time travel, the origin of the universe, and human intelligence. Wayt (@WaytGibbs) will blow you away with his own piece on two invisible black...