by Chris Tachibana | Jan 2, 2017 | ScienceWire
For Science, Kristin Harper (@kristinnharper) outlines the AIDS epidemic in China, which followed a very different pattern than in western countries. In a review of the book HIV/AIDS in China Beyond the Numbers, edited by Zunyou Wu, Kristin describes what other...
by Chris Tachibana | Jan 2, 2017 | ScienceWire
What makes an outstanding science story? Learn from Joanne Silberner, an experienced science reporter who teaches journalism at the University of Washington. For Open Notebook, she critiqued George Johnson’s award-winning New York Times essay. Read her...
by Chris Tachibana | Jan 2, 2017 | ScienceWire
Get work from two NSWA members with just one click. Robin Lindley interviewed Steve Olson in December about Steve’s book Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens. The weekend the mountain blew held special significance for Robin, who elicits volcanic facts and...
by Chris Tachibana | Jan 2, 2017 | ScienceWire
Small waterways have idiosyncracies, writes Andrea Watts. In an article in Science Findings, for the U.S. Forest Service, Andrea describes a collaborative study by academic and government scientists to find out how local variabilities in streams affect trout habitats....
by Chris Tachibana | Dec 1, 2016 | ScienceWire
History, Elisabeth Eaves writes, has a lesson for those who abandon science: Put politics and fundamentalism ahead of unbiased inquiry and your society is in peril. Elisabeth (@ElisabethEaves) makes her points in a review of Shawn Otto’s book, The War on Science:...
by Chris Tachibana | Dec 1, 2016 | ScienceWire
We had a warm summer, Joel Green reports, and humans weren’t the only uncomfortable species. The high temperatures and low snowmelt were hard on spawning salmon, Joel writes. Read the full report, check out the data, and watch for more from Joel in the Snoqualmie...
