#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.
Hibachi: White Elephants, Yellow Rain, and a NSWA Mystery
The University of Washington’s has a chilling story about global nuclear disasters from Three Mile Island to Chernobyl to Fukushima. The personal essay was written by a NSWA member using the pseudonym Sudoku Hibachi. Is this a clue to his/her puzzle and barbeque...
Sharp: Swimming and Surviving
Elizabeth Sharpe, Communication Director, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington spent a good part of 2010 and 2011 learning about breast cancer from the patient perspective. Now on the other side of surgery,...
Seinfeld: Spermcycle Delivers
Learn about the Seattle Sperm Bank’s low carbon footprint delivery viagra canadian pharmacy system in this NPR story from Keith Seinfeld, KPLU health and science reporter and assistant news director, and NSWA board member. Check out the photo, too. It’s not every day...
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In her New American Scholar column, Science Frictions, Priscilla Long gives us good news about the Seattle climate: her pet worms like it. (And Andrew Sullivan liked this column in his Newsweek/Daily Beast blog.) Photo: Arthur Chapman
Gibbs: Without an Index, a Book is a Doorstop
Q & A conducted by John W. Henson, MD I have a personal rule in buying books: no index, no purchase. To double check, all six of the books on my nightstand at the moment (mainly biographies) have an index. Upon discovering that NSWA member Judi Gibbs is a...