Meet new member Tim Bonfield
Tim Bonfield, senior associate, Marketing & Communications, at Cincinnati Children's, shares #WhySciWri in this short Q&A.
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What's in store for ScienceWriters2019
Get a first look at the professional development opportunities at ScienceWriters2019 from Jill Adams, chair of the programs committee.
May 13, 2019
Improv your way to better science writing
With support from Peggy Girshman Idea Grant, Katherine Mast, Allison Mills, and Phil Weaver-Stoesz are hosting a workshop using improv—live performance in which the plot, characters, dialogue, and movements develop in the moment—to help science writers become better storytellers.
May 13, 2019
Science Writing by Storytelling
The “Science Writing by Storytelling Master Class” took place Feb. 18-19, 2019, following the AAAS meeting in Washington, D.C.
Antonia Malchik: A Walking Life
Our car-centric culture has been designing walking out of our lives for nearly a hundred years, Antonia Malchik asserts. Forgoing walking has eroded our sense of community, made us more anxious about time, cut us off from nature, and boosted obesity and air pollution, she says. In A Walking Life: Reclaiming Our Health and Our Freedom One Step at a Time, Malchik calls for a U-turn.
Sunny Bains: Explaining the Future
If you’re new to covering technology, where do you start? In Explaining the Future: How to Research, Analyze, and Report on Emerging Technologies, Sunny Bains tells what to ask, where to find answers, how to assess experts’ opinions, and how to organize and convey your conclusions. Bains is editorial director of the science news site Engineering Inspiration.
Rod Pyle: Interplanetary Robots
From the first images of Mars Mariner 4 sent back to earth in 1965 to those of Pluto New Horizons captured in its 2015 flyby, the solar system has proved “far less friendly and hospitable than we had hoped, but more fascinating than we could have imagined,” Rod Pyle writes. In Interplanetary Robots: True Stories of Space Exploration, Pyle recounts six decades of headline-making history.
Desk Notes Newsletter, April 17, 2019
Get an update from President Siri Carpenter, read about a new tool to help journalists access federal court cases, and meet new member Prabarna Ganguly in the April issue.
Stephen Ornes: Math Art
A mathematician created 13 mathematical quilts providing visual representations of patterns in pi. A topologist worked out equations for inner and outer curves of seashells to sculpt shells from gypsum. A teacher crochets tangible models of the hyperbolic plane. In Math Art: Truth, Beauty, and Equations, Stephen Ornes explains the math and provides stunning examples of mathematical art.