#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.
Yan: Lives Changed After COVID-19
Writing for New York Magazine, Wudan Yan (@wudanyan) tells us the stories of five different people across the country, such as Andrea Ceresa, left, whose lives were all indelibly changed by COVID-19. Facing debilitating long-haul symptoms, job loss, financial...
Blow: Memphis Pipeline
Ashli Blow (@ashliblow) writes for Climate Conscious at Medium about the grassroots efforts to stop the installation of a crude oil pipeline through the neighborhood of Boxtown in Memphis. The proposed route for the Byhalia Pipeline runs through an earthquake-prone...
Tompa: Measuring Bats’ Longevity
Longevity researchers are fascinated by bats, writes Rachel Tompa (@rachel_tompa), since these animals defy the typical correlation between an animal species’ body size and its life span. Tompa writes for the Allen Institute about a new molecular clock method that can...
Nijhuis: A History of Conservation
In her new book, “Beloved Beasts,” Michelle Nijhuis (@nijhuism) charts the history of the modern conservation movement through the lives and ideas of the people driving it. She gives us an in-depth look at how conservationists have taken on the challenge of saving...
Eaves: New Nukes
Why, asks Elisabeth Eaves, is the U.S. spending $100 billion on a new nuclear weapon? Eaves (@elisabetheaves) explores the complex answers to this question in a feature for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, taking us down to missile silos, into the communities...