#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.
McCarthy: Your Daily Dose
Michael McCarthy now reports daily on health care business, global health policy, , and more for the website of BMJ, an international medical journal. Get quick but comprehensive summaries of current stories with Michael’s perspective as an experienced medical writer....
Weeks and Adler: Next Generation
Reitha Weeks and Susan Adler are cultivating new science writers. Reitha, Susan, and colleagues at the (NWABR) hold an annual “Biomedical Breakthroughs and My Life” that gets middle schoolers to think—and write—about science. Read the winning entries from 454 students...
Cramer: Big Bang or Big Groan?
John G. Cramer gives us a sound bite of the birth (or at least early childhood) of the universe. John is a University of Washington physics professor but the project started with his writings for Analog Science Fiction and Fact. The sound recreation is so cool, it...
Stricherz: What Doesn’t Kill You…
…might make you grow faster, writes Vince Stricherz. That is, if you’re a plant exposed to the toxin hydrogen sulfide. Vince, writing for the University of Washington, explains how a lot of the sewer gas is poisonous, but a little bit might just press an evolutionary...
Nelson: Sane and Green
Bryn Nelson tells us how to keep it real in the new : Everything You Need to Know to Pitch, Publish, and Prosper in the Digital Age. In a section called in The Sane Science Writer, Bryn has a chapter on Avoiding Domestic Disasters. Must be working. Bryn’s New York...