by Chris Tachibana | Mar 2, 2012 | ScienceWire
We know her voice from NPR. Now, follow her around the world in her latest project. Joanne Silberner moved to Seattle last year and is now a freelance reporter and University of Washington artist-in-residence. Go with her to Uganda, India and Haiti in a series on...
by Chris Tachibana | Mar 2, 2012 | ScienceWire
The world’s best global health tourguide is Humanosphere, KPLU reporter (and former NSWA president) Tom Paulson’s acclaimed blog. Seattle is the Geneva of America, with the highest concentration of international health organizations in the country. Let Tom show...
by Chris Tachibana | Mar 2, 2012 | ScienceWire
Marimbas are the method in a story at The Hearing Lab, Nedra Floyd-Pautler’s website on hearing science. Each month, Nedra posts a feature about current auditory research. In February, she described how visual cues affect our perception of sound. Audio-visual...
by Chris Tachibana | Mar 2, 2012 | ScienceWire
Biofuel-cell-powered cockroaches? Yes, reports NWSA board member John Roach in a Future of Tech post for msnbc.com. We need them if we want to use insects as environmental toxin detectors or nanospies. Aptly named, John is a science writer cockroach himself—meaning...
by Chris Tachibana | Mar 2, 2012 | ScienceWire
The free e-book A Small Dose of Toxicology is now available in a second edition from the . Multiple formats are iPad, Kindle or pdf. Steven G. Gilbert, the author and a University of Washington Affiliate Associate Professor, Environmental Health, makes teaching...