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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.
Wilcox: Bettas — Pets to Models
Christie Wilcox (@NerdyChristie) and her daughter recently brought home the girl’s first pet, “Sky Banana,” a lavender Betta fish. But these creatures offer more than human amusement. Writing for The Scientist, Wilcox takes us from Sky Banana into research labs, which...
Aldern: Bitcoin’s Energy Usage
Bitcoin is responsible for 0.5% of all the electricity consumed in the world — but why? Clayton Aldern (@compatibilism), in a video for Grist, explains how blockchain works and why bitcoin’s blockchain implementation burns so much energy. He explores this...
Lindley: Equity in Duwamish Cleanup
The Duwamish River became the industrial core of a prosperous Seattle, writes Robin Lindley (@robinlindley2) for EarthX, but the river and the marginalized people who live along its banks suffered the consequences. After a segment of the lower Duwamish was declared a...
Fore: Translating Physics Into Blackfoot
There are now only a few thousand native speakers of Blackfoot, a language once spoken across the northern Great Plains. Meredith Fore (@Fore_Says) writes for Symmetry Magazine about one of these native speakers, Sharon Yellowfly, whose efforts to reinvigorate the...
Weinberger: COVID-19 Vaccine Trials Continue
Even though FDA-authorized coronavirus vaccines are now widely available, writes Hannah Weinberger (@Weinbergrrrrr) for Crosscut, people continue to participate in clinical trials of new COVID-19 vaccines. Her story discusses a new University of Washington clinical...