Science and the Media, a new (and free) volume from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is the result of a series of workshops that considered ways to enrich Americans' engagement with science and technology.
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The Chilean miners: therapy and media matters. Blog control at US News. The buzz about bee colony collapse. Most biomedical research is wrong.
Once more, Tuskegee-style human experimentation, but this time in Guatemala. 2010 Nobel Prizes: All carbon, all the time in chemistry, physics, even medicine.
ADHD is a genetic disorder, sort of. The human microbiome is very big now. Climate change in Washington and elsewhere.
Health care reform could be reformed into oblivion. Arguments about the salmon Frankenfish are not sustainable. Plus merging addictions.
Winners of the 2010 Science in Society Journalism Awards are Susan Cohen and Christine Cosgrove for their book "Normal at Any Cost: Tall Girls, Short Boys, and the Medical Industry's Quest to Manipulate Height," Martha Mendoza and Margie Mason for their Associated Press series "When Drugs Stop Working," Charles Duhigg for his New York Times series "Toxic Waters," and J. Madeleine Nash for her article "Bring in the Cows," which appeared in High Country News.
Have the wheels come off the sunspot cycle? Video games good for kids? Galileo was wrong? Plus art appreciation for the Mandelbrot set.