The Week's Best: Evolution, healthcare reform, clever apes, and Cheever in his undies
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Evolution, healthcare reform, baboons, and Cheever in his underwear
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I write articles on science, medicine, nature, culture and other matters for the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Slate, National Geographic, Scientific American Mind, and other publications, and am working on my fourth book, The Orchid and the Dandelion, which expands on my recent December 2009 Atlantic article. My previous books include Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral, which traces the strangest but most forgotten controversy in Darwin's career — an elemental dispute running some 75 years.
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Gleanings - storms, vegetables, violence, grace, and a correction
As alert reader Alex Witze pointed out , these photos were taken by stormchaser Mike Hollingshead in Nebraska and Kansas in 2002 and 2004, and have passed around the net in other guises ever since. ... He has some doozies. You may be shocked but not surprised to hear that Insurance Company Dropped Customers With HIV .
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Cool/nifty versus funny-smelling/fishy stories: Why we need both kinds
Category: Culture of science
How "This is Nifty" science stories are (part of) the foundation of democracy.
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On the lighter side: 119 banned words ... in one sentence
Category: Journalism
In other news, stay tuned, because in our top story tonight, some really good (or bad) news: as expected, in a surprise move yesterday, informed sources say...
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Eureka! Neuron Culture goes Sally Field
Category: Journalism
was thrilled this morning to learn that this humble, erratic blog was named one of Top 30 Science Blogs by Eureka, the new monthly science magazine recently launched by the Times of London.
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The mojo of open journalism, plus that itchy beta thing
Category: Journalism - rebooting (aka future of)
It was a riveting, invigorating, almost intoxicating experience. It seemed a glimpse of the sort of honesty, rigor, transparency, and quality of thought and discussion that a more open system of science communication and discussion might generate.
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Hits of the week past
Category: Brains and minds
The week's best -- with new features!
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Rebooting science journalism -mixed-metaphor notes on the upcoming yakfest
Category: Journalism - rebooting (aka future of)
Ask not whom to kill, but how sci journalism and/or sci journalists might adapt to a new environment.
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Rebooting science journalism, redux
Category: Journalism - rebooting (aka future of)
If good science writing were easy, we'd be choking on it. Instead, it's rare enough that when we find it, we celebrate it and pass on the links as something especially worth attending. Why pretend it's otherwise?
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Blogosauruses and bad bad bad bad science TV
Category: Culture of science
The times I've seen subjects I'd written about covered on TV -- DBS for depression, and Williams syndrome, which I'd written about for the Times Mag and both of which were subsequently covered by 60 MInutes -- the TV results were truly appalling.
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