#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.
Scanlan: Nature and Nurture
Hope is part of nature, and part of human nature, writes Adrienne Ross Scanlan in an essay about navigating life. Adrienne’s life is filled with courageous children with serious illness—children who also love to go to Green Lake and look for chickadees. Adrienne is an...
Fleishman: True Tones
Glenn Fleishman, blogging (AND with this month's cover story) at The Economist, describes what happens when California sunlight meets a dye from the 1950s on a Los Angeles t-shirt. An artist couple wanted graphics with true continuous tones and couldn’t get them from...
Mapes: And the Winner Is…
…Lynda Mapes, for the series “Elwha: The Grand Experiment.” The multimedia project described the ecological effects of dam removal on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. In February, Lynda, Steve Ringman, and Genevieve Alvarez won an American Association for the...
Scheiderer: Chasing Venus
Greg Scheiderer would let neither wind nor rain nor Seattle’s clouds stop him from seeing the transit of Venus. It happened last June but Greg’s quest is still an exciting read at his blog, SeattleAstronomy.com. The journal is in two posts, and the payoff in the...
Tachibana: Ahoy! Antibiotics
Wildly susceptible to sea sickness herself, Chris Tachibana writes about microbiologists on a 9-month ‘round-the-world ocean voyage. The scientists were looking for microbes (like Penicillium) that produce antibiotics, which we are rapidly running out of because of...