by Chris Tachibana | Feb 3, 2013 | ScienceWire
Amelia Apfel, a young science writer with a stellar pedigree, writes about the science-art-communication crossover in High Country News. Talk about multidisciplinary: Apfel talks with faculty members at the Department of Art and Ecology, University of New Mexico, and...
by Chris Tachibana | Feb 3, 2013 | ScienceWire
We’re born to talk, writes NSWA Vice President Molly McElroy. She shows how researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle, and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden figured out if babies could distinguish English or Swedish—their mother tongue in more...
by Chris Tachibana | Feb 3, 2013 | ScienceWire
Bryn Nelson shows how luxury, energy-efficiency, and art come together at a sustainable living campus. In a post for the New York Times, Bryn shows this is no idealistic community in sunny California. HUG, the Hunt Utilities Group, put their innovations and inventions...
by Chris Tachibana | Feb 3, 2013 | ScienceWire
Tag-team reporting from Tom Paulson, former NSWA President, and Keith Seinfeld, current NSWA secretary, covers the spectrum of news about flu shots. Keith’s reporting for KPLU shows that vaccination is our best bet for reducing influenza in the population. At KPLU’s...
by Chris Tachibana | Jan 3, 2013 | ScienceWire
Nothing grips a writer or a scientist more than the quest for precision. Hence the popularity with science writers of David B. Williams’ blogpost “Rock or Stone: Is there a difference?” Absolutely. But it depends on whether you are British, American, on land, at sea,...
