Aliens abduct bloggers! Or did bloggers abduct aliens? And did you hear, they all ate arsenic at a NASA press conference! Anyway, things are a bit better for HIV infection and AIDS.
The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media has a two-part series on leading climate scientists’ and science journalists’ “Lessons Learned” from the climate change controversies of the past 12 months.
It's all brain all the time at the Society for Neuroscience. Celebrities and the brain. Female orgasm and What Women Want: The truth about premature ejaculation. Plus oxytocin, grad students, optogenetics, jet lag, and improving memory.
Free online: Wise advice from your science-writing peers, direct from ScienceWriters2010, the NASW annual meeting, Plus waiting for ScienceOnline2011. Plus the truth about Daylight Saving Time: If you spring forward, you might fall back.
It was not Cathy Farrar's goal to transform her high school physics students into science journalists — at least not at first. She just wanted to encourage them to enter a writing contest.
Slidecasts and videos of six ScienceWriters2010 sessions Saturday in suddenly snowy New Haven, Conn., have now been posted on the ScienceWriters2010 site. You can also read about the weekend's events on Twitter, Facebook, and the fellows' blog.
The National Association of Science Writers is meeting at Yale, and you can be there even if you're not there. Plus post-election postmortem.
The newly redesigned National Association of Science Writers web site has some major new features as well as refined versions of tried-and-true features from our previous site. Here's a brief guide to what's new, what's moved, and what's changed on our site. If you have any questions that aren't answered here, send them to cybrarian@nasw.org and we'll get them answered.
ADVERTISEMENT
