#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.
Hu: Kids, Puppets, and Stats
Preschoolers practice transitive inference, Jane Hu @jane_c_hu discovered. In research done at UC Berkeley, now published in Cognitive Development, Jane and colleagues used puppets to observe kids making sophisticated conclusions about preferences by watching others....
Solis: Opioid Dangers
Heroin, writes Michele Solis, didn't disappear in the 90s with the Spice Girls. Heroin addiction is still very much with us, along with prescription opioid abuse. In "Heroin Abuse: Breaking the Cycle" in the Pharmaceutical Journal, Michele tells what we know and still...
Watts: Sweep Out the Broom
Ask Andrea Watts: What's the solution to invasive plants? Maybe it's herbicides, she's writes in the US Forest Service publication Science Findings. Andrea talks with two experts about their careful efforts to optimize chemical control of invaders like Canada Thistle...
Mills: Human Meaning
David Mills and Infinity Box Theatre Project asked four teams of a playwright plus a geneticist or synthetic biologist, "What does it mean to be human?" Hear answers in the form of readings of four new one-act plays from the teams, at the Ethnic Cultural Theatre in...
Bach: World’s Goofiest Swimcaps
UW scientists, writes Deborah Bach @DeborahBach1, have noninvasively linked the brains of two people sitting a mile apart. So far, the brain-to-brain interface caps have been used only to play "20 Questions," but Deborah, a University of Washington public information...