What made Rebecca Skloot's "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" the top science book of 2010? It wasn't just the science, said John Dupuis in Confessions of a Science Librarian: "People that were predisposed to like science books loved it and that shows through. More tellingly, however, are the cases where the reviewer didn't seem predisposed towards science books at all but still loved the story of Henrietta Lacks."
Science writing news
On the heels of last week's suicide of former Chicago Bears safety Dave Duerson comes this interview from Nieman Storyboard with a writer, Jeanne Marie Laskas, who has profiled two other players, Fred McNeill and Mike Webster, who were similarly afflicted by concussion-related brain damage.
Spectacular photos from space: European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli, aboard the International Space Station, snapped the shuttle Discovery as it prepared to dock Saturday.
The American Astronomical Society bows to technological reality and revises its embargo policy in light of the increasing online availability of abstracts and papers.
Are science writers responsible for public skepticism about climate change? Is it OK to say extreme weather can be due to global warming? Should you trust health care web sites? Can cell phones cause brain damage?
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Then he got busy writing it up for publication. A brief bit of whimsy from the Whizbang blog.
Which of these sentences was written by a scientist, and which by a science writer?
Controversial content provider Demand Media ekes out a fourth-quarter profit as its top officer addresses Google's actions against "con
Fresh from her AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award for a High Country News story about an endangered fish, science writer Hilary Rosner says the journalism ecosystem, like natural ones, flourishes on diversity. Read more: Tooth and Claw blog. Also, how she got the story: The Open Notebook.