Oil covers animals, journalists, EPA, scientists, and Florida. We're Number 1 in health care! Is blogging the future of science writing?
Exoplanets aplenty, Kepler says, and some may be Earthlike. That female sex drug moves neither the Earth nor the FDA. BP's oil spill, mental health, and Congress.
With e-books starting to surge, many publishers are asking book authors to amend their existing contracts to include e-book and other electronic rights. If you receive such an amendment from any publisher, please don't sign it before you read the National Writers Union's primer on e-book amendments.
Virtual meetings. Writing about health care reform, Chapter 1. Evidence-based medicine. Conflict of interest. Medical Web 2.0, Whee!
Dear Prospective Student: Thanks very much for your interest in our graduate program in science writing. You're off to a good start by sending a professional message with some well-composed details about your background and your desire to enter our field. We'll talk soon over the phone, and I welcome you to visit us here in the redwoods. In the meantime, you've asked what I look for in our applicants — the signs that you might be a good fit for us, and vice versa. I'm happy to oblige.
BP's oil spill is the energy story that keeps going and going. But where? Wallet-shock and the future of carbon pricing. Oil spill science. Looking for that Hollywood ending.
The relationship between a freelance writer and a publisher thrives on mutual respect, clear expectations, and professional behavior on both sides. That's the ideal. But it doesn't always work out that way, and writers sometimes end up getting what they consider to be unfair treatment.
Craig Venter & Co's synthetic/artificial/plagiarized/real life. The politics of Synthia. The bioethics of Synthia. Synthia and evolution and extinction.
