Category: Art
Mind, brain, and body (including those gene things) While reading Wolpert's review of Greenberg's book, I found that the Guardian has a particularly rich trove of writings and resources on depression , some of it drawing on resources at BMJ (the journal formerly known as the British Medical Journal). ... The backchannel is the twitter stream that audience members now rather routinely produce while a conference speaker or panel holds forth at the front of the room; it carries hideous dangers for the unwary, unprepared, or just plain unlikeable speaker.
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BoingBoing loves The Open Laboratory: The Best in Science Writing on Blogs 2009, founded/published by the ever-present Bora Zivkovic and...
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I'll try doing this now and then, maybe regularly, to gather the more notable tweets I get in my twitter...
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Category: Brains and minds
We'll start with the science, cruise through J school, and end with healthcare reform or bust. Genetic material Willful...
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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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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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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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Posted by David Dobbs at 11:14 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Journalism - rebooting (aka future of)
So where IS the ProPublica for science journalism? There are a lot of organizations spending money on promoting science and science communications, but so far, not much aimed at funding high-level science journalism, either of the day-to-day reporting sort of the more in-depth kind that examines not just the findings but the workings of science. Where is our ProScientifica?
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Posted by David Dobbs at 11:08 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Journalism - rebooting (aka future of)
This is how life works. So it's how the blogosphere works too.
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Category: Journalism - rebooting (aka future of)
I think it helps to have a sense of the history of science, which embeds in a writer or observer a sense of critical distance and an eye for large forces at work beneath the surface. Machinations in government surprise no one who has studied the history of government and politics. Likewise with science.
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Posted by David Dobbs at 11:16 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I write 
