A passion for biology prompted Teisha Rowland to write on a wide range of biology topics for her local newspaper while still in grad school. Now she’s collected and updated her columns in two books.
In his final column, Rick Borchelt shares three seminal pieces of research from the decades past that he think every practitioner of science communication should know and be able to recite word for word. From the Summer 2013 ScienceWriters.
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Oct. 17, 2013There’s still a gender gap in the sciences, with far fewer women than men in research jobs, and those women earning substantially less, but it doesn’t help when journalists treat every female scientist they profile as an archetype of perseverance. Such was the consensus that emerged from a discussion prompted by a March 5 post at Double X Science. From the Summer 2013 ScienceWriters.
Working with a cadaver dog gave Cat Warren new appreciation of law enforcement work, and prompted her to investigate the science of scent.
President Ron Winslow convened the NASW membership meeting at 8:14 a.m., on Oct. 27, 2012, in Raleigh, N.C., even as Hurricane Sandy churned off the Atlantic coast a bit to our south and meteorologists warned that a “Frankenstorm” could envelop a third of the eastern U.S. before Halloween. Hardy science writers dug into breakfast, fortifying themselves for the business and weather ahead.
Oct. 7, 2013
Even though I'm an experienced health journalist, who has been a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post, I still see plenty of red.
To boost your chances of getting an interview, carefully prepare each introductory email for each source, and use more formal language, closer to what would be found in a scientific paper than in a magazine article.
Suppose wrinkles in space-time could open gateways to other universes. That’s fantasy, but fun to contemplate, says Dennis Meredith, who explores this premise in his latest novel, Wormholes. Meredith self-published the book in both adult and young adult versions, hoping to tap both markets.
