The climate for science writing, the climate for mammograms, the climate for climate
HM's brain being sectioned on webcam right freaking now!!!! Plus climate nerds, health care girds, counting birds, forbidden words.
Freelancer Nancy Allison talks with Dan Baum, formerly of the New Yorker, and his wife, Margaret Knox, editor of his work for more than 20 years. Discover how Twitter put their collaborative working style, marriage, website, and new book, Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans, into the public eye.
ClimateGate, a PR disaster for climate scientists. Darwin was a racist? Facilitating bogus communication for the coma guy. And joy, for a change, in particle physics.
Bloggers have much to say about the week's big story, the new, and apparently exceptionally unpopular, recommendations on breast cancer and mammograms.
A black hole is the perfect place for stuff you never want to see again. So Wired Science is joining Wired.com's extended black hole party by chucking in some of the worst, most overused science cliches.
No better place to commence this new column on science writing for science writers than with some optimism about clearing up our profession's cloudy future. Literally cloudy, according to Dot Earth's Andrew Revkin, who discusses what he calls "cloud financing" of investigative work by science journalists. Revkin's example is a Nov. 9 New York Times piece by Lindsey Hoshaw on vast trash heaps in the ocean.
