#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.
Williams: Rock On
Nothing grips a writer or a scientist more than the quest for precision. Hence the popularity with science writers of David B. Williams’ blogpost “Rock or Stone: Is there a difference?” Absolutely. But it depends on whether you are British, American, on land, at sea,...
Miner: Biodiversity and You
The microbes in and on your body might be more important for health than your genes. Mindy Miner reports on womens’ personal biodiversity and bacterial vaginosis, in a story about research at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division....
Gordon: Humbugs
Nothing says the the holidays like a NSWA member with a fried arachnid. David George Gordon as the Bug Chef whets the Thanksgiving appetite of New Yorkers and it’s all captured in an online slideshow. See David’s books for recipes (and of course, the science) of bugs,...
Long: Roundup
Priscilla Long celebrates her second year of writing “Science Frictions” for The American Scholar with a link to so far. Browse the list to see how Priscilla started small with a column on the purpose of life (from the perspective of a hair mite) and ended 2012 with...
Roach: Green Research
The holidays are a chance to catch up on the year’s stack of magazines and newsletters. A gem from John Roach appears in a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Bulletin from 2012. John visits the labs and greenhouses of University of Washington researcher Keiko Torii, who...