#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.
Scigliano: Global Warming’s Evil Twin
We thought we’d heard the last of acid rain, but a story by Eric Scigliano at OnEarth.org is a reminder of that environmental plague of the 1970s. Fossil fuel consumption increases CO2 in the atmosphere, causing global climate change. But it also forces CO2 into our...
Timmerman: Auld Lang Syne for Seattle Biotech 2011
As National Biotech Editor of Xconomy and the Editor of Xconomy Seattle, Luke Timmerman writes and tweets about the Seattle life sciences industry copiously, continuously and most importantly, competently. See his “Top 12 Life Sciences Stories of the Year” for a...
Sorensen: May I Have Your Attention Please
Reading tweets is more interesting than working. Kids like stuff that flashes. Talking on the phone while driving is dangerous. Eric Sorensen, science writer for Washington State Magazine/WSU News Service, delves deep into the science of attention research to explain...
Barlow: What Ted Kennedy and the Oregon Ducks Have In Common
References to both the late Massachusetts senator and the mighty Duck football team show up in a story about the cells responsible for a rare but deadly brain cancer by Jim Barlow, University of Oregon director of science and research communications.
Golard: Your Brain on Eureka
How does your brain keep up with new ideas like the iPad, while still recognizing Bill Clinton and Halle Berry? Neuroscientist Andre Golard explains (and compares your brain’s cortex to a dust rag) in “The Neuroscience of Eureka Moments,” his 2011 TEDx Puget...