by Chris Tachibana | Feb 2, 2014 | ScienceWire
Amelia Apfel explores the threat of short-term funding to long-term environmental research with the help of the Ensia Mentor Program. The program gave her the time and column inches (or screen scrolls) to dig into how a scientific community came together to advocate...
by Chris Tachibana | Feb 2, 2014 | ScienceWire
Neuroscientist Andre Golard reaches back to our caveman days to explain why we find the advice “cut your losses” so painful. Start folding in a card game or selling your stock and your amygdala broadcasts strong loss aversion signals. Fortunately, Andre (@AndreGolard)...
by Chris Tachibana | Feb 2, 2014 | ScienceWire
Celebrating the Seahawks? Sylvia Kantor, writer for the College of Agriculture, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences, Washington State University, wants you to know the origins, the terroir, and the roots of that celebratory glass of local beer or booze. Sylvia gives...
by Chris Tachibana | Feb 2, 2014 | ScienceWire
Linking to Molly McElroy’s NSWA post is bit ouroboric (a recent word of the day). But NSWA Vice President Molly cheerfully organized and promoted the annual holiday networking bash, got the best photo props ever, and wrote up the event for NSWA—all while tending to a...
by Chris Tachibana | Jan 4, 2014 | ScienceWire
Eric Scigliano is hot on the trail of the Woodland Park Zoo elephants. In a series for Crosscut, Eric covers complaints about the treatment of the zoo’s highly visible animals and the zoo’s official response. Like the pachyderms he reports on, Eric has a long memory....
