Catastrophe in Haiti and the Devil is in the details. Plus health careless again, essay writing for scientists, searching for PubMed, and ScienceOnline2010
Bloggers have much to say about the week's big story, the new, and apparently exceptionally unpopular, recommendations on breast cancer and mammograms.
No better place to commence this new column on science writing for science writers than with some optimism about clearing up our profession's cloudy future. Literally cloudy, according to Dot Earth's Andrew Revkin, who discusses what he calls "cloud financing" of investigative work by science journalists. Revkin's example is a Nov. 9 New York Timespiece by Lindsey Hoshaw on vast trash heaps in the ocean.
