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On science blogs this week: Universe

The Scientist is dead. The Bolshoi Simulation: It's Life, the Universe, and Everything. Except Life.

Interview w/ Cindy Brach: AHRQ Health Literacy Toolkit

It's impossible to anticipate who will have health literacy problems. You can’t predict based on a patient’s age, gender, profession or income. So what can be done? Listen to my conversation with AHRQ’s Cindy Brach to hear how AHRQ is offering tools to help clinicians communicate better: http://engagingthepatient.com/2011/10/03/ahrqs-cindy-brach-the-20-actions-you-can-take-to-prevent-health-literacy-related-complications/

Webcast Today: Science News and Government Transparency

Archived video. You're invited: On Monday Oct. 3, from 3 to 5 p.m., the National Press Club (529 14th Street NW, Washington, D.C) will host a panel of journalists and invited administration officials to critique what journalists and the government are (or aren’t) doing to for transparency. Or watch the webcast. http://www.press.org/events/press-freedom-event NASW and its members assisted in data collection for the CJR investigation.

On science blogs this week: Travel in Mind

The latest on early human migration to Australia and Southeast Asia. The latest on what a mongrel species Homo sapiens is. Bioethics and Aborigine genetic research. 50 reasons not to believe in evolution. Nearly mind-reading and somewhat spooky: Capturing images of what the brain is seeing. Best video of the week: The NASA satellite that fell to earth. Not.

Publishing e-books and e-articles

This guide aims to help NASW members make the best decisions and navigate the rapidly shifting terrain of e-book publishing.

On science blogs this week: Quorum

DON'T PANIC, but Microorganisms R Us. Gut bacteria govern the brain and behavior, mice say. Yogurt and the Mind-Body Problem. My.microbes wants your microbes. The Encyclopedia of Life is reborn: 700,000 species and counting.

WSJ's Winslow awarded Cohn prize

NASW Treasurer Ron Winslow, the New York-based deputy bureau chief for health and science and a veteran medical reporter at the Wall Street Journal, has been awarded the 2011 Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting. Winslow was cited for the “exceptional breadth, precision and clarity of his coverage about how technological innovation is transforming the world of medicine.”

On science blogs this week: Catty

Meet a new human ancestor, maybe. Can 2 million year-old soft tissue be recovered from a fossil site? The politics of vaccination: Republican presidential candidates, HPV vaccine, and cervical cancer. Green fluorescent cats: These are not cute kitties, but genetic engineering a possible weapon against AIDS.

2011 Science in Society Award winners

Winners of the 2011 Science in Society Journalism Awards, sponsored by NASW, are Maryn McKenna for her book Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA (Free Press). Katy Butler for her New York Times Magazine article, “My Father’s Broken Heart,” Barbara Moran for her Boston Globe Magazine article, “Power Politics,” Charles Homans, for his Columbia Journalism Review article, “Hot Air.”

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