#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.
Bailey: No Baloney, Sustainable Abalone
Kevin Bailey, writing in Earth Island Journal, has good news for conscientious consumers. The Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch has a long list of unsustainable shellfish choices—except for abalone from a California aquaculture company. Abalone cultivation isn’t...
Kantor: Save the Bees
Honeybee colony collapse, Sylvia Kantor @kantors discovers, might be halted by mycologists as well as entomologists. In a story for Crosscut, Sylvia talks with a mushroom expert and a Washington State University bee researcher who are finding compounds from mushrooms,...
Distelhorst: Improving Cancer Care—Globally
Sandra Ripley Distelhorst has a first-author Lancet Oncology paper on optimizing breast cancer care in low- and middle-income countries. The comprehensive summary lays out the latest recommendations from the Breast Health Global Initiative, co-sponsored by Fred...
Freeman: Data in Harmony
The European Union, says Kris Freeman, wants its members to join together in harmony, at least when sharing health data. In Environmental Health Perspectives, Kris writes that data from 17 countries can be combined to study exposure patterns to compounds such as...
Rochman: Funny, Factual Sex Ed
In New York Times Magazine, Bonnie Rochman @brochman tells of taking her 10-year-old daughter to For Girls Only, a facts-of-life class for preteens and their parents.Embarrassment ensues, quickly followed by laughs, then frank questions from the girls, with honest,...