The tightening of access to our public servants and information is a critical issue for the science writing community. Join us in D.C. on October 16 for the Information Access Summit. Read more
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DNA makes us who we are. But how? In Genetics 101, Beth Skwarecki starts at the beginning. She aims to build lay readers’ understanding step-by-step, and moves from describing basic building blocks of cellular information to how traits are inherited to topics in the news, including how DNA ancestry services work, ethical quandaries posed by embryonic gene editing, and babies of the future.
This fall members will have the opportunity to vote on two proposed amendments to the NASW constitution. Read on for details and links to the proposed amendments.
The Board and the Governance Committee have proposed an amendment to NASW's bylaws. Members will have the opportunity to vote on this and another proposed amendment at the October 13 meeting in Washington, DC or via online proxy later this fall. Read more for the text of the proposed amendment.
A petition to amend the NASW bylaws was submitted by NASW member Rick Borchelt on behalf of 38 signatories. Members will have the opportunity to vote on this and another proposed amendment at the October 13 meeting in Washington, DC or via online proxy later this fall. Read more for the text of the petition.
US Route 1, the nation’s first highway, runs the entire length of the East Coast. Long bypassed by the interstate highway system, it’s still used by millions of people every day, and ranges from two-lane divided highways to narrow crooked roads. In U.S. Route 1: Rediscovering the New World, Mark A. Marchand explores the character of communities and geographical challenges that determined its path.
Both science writers and investigative reporters rely on analytical skills, curiosity, skepticism and a knack for sussing out dubious claims, Liza Gross notes in The Science Writers’ Investigative Reporting Handbook. Her book, written with support from a NASW Peggy Girshman Idea Grant, tells how to explore the story behind the story, detect biases, and find concealed information.
In Weather: An Illustrated History: From Cloud Atlases to Climate Change, NASW member Andrew Revkin, and Lisa Mechaley provide one-page summaries of meteorological milestones. They report, for example, how clouds were classified and named, how reliable The Farmer’s Almanac is, how global warming harms coral reefs, what a “nuclear winter” would involve, and where climate diplomacy is heading.
Read more about the 19 volunteers who are candidates for this summer's board election.