#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.
Stiffler: Obamacare in WA
Five years into Obamacare, Lisa Stiffler (@lisa_stiffler) takes a look at healthcare in Washington State. Writing for the Seattle Times, Lisa combines personal stories with statistics, expert comments, and a summary infographic on how the Affordable Care Act has...
Serikawa: Personalizing the Nudge
Where there's an app there's a way, writes Kyle Serikawa (@kyleserikawa) in Xconomy. Right now, activity trackers like the Fitbit and apps like Moves nudge some people to walk more, take breaks from sitting, and remember to exercise. But app developers could be even...
Kwok: Not Just for the Barbie
Roberta Kwok (@robertakwok) covers the latest science stories for Conservation This Week, including news from PNAS about disease-fighting West African prawns. A schistosomiasis outbreak after a dam was erected on the Senegal River led to experiments that discovered...
Doughton: Full Rip Revisited
Didn't we all think of Sandi Doughton's book Full Rip: 9.0: The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest when the New Yorker article about Seattle earthquakes went viral? So did Dan Savage of The Stranger, who had a lively Q&A with Sandi about earthquakes...
Lindley: Neuroscience Backstory
Neuroscience is a hot field but it has a long history, writes Robin Lindley for History News Network. In the latest in a series of interviews with authors of science and medical books, Robin talks with Dr. Mitchell Glickstein, formerly of the University of Washington...