In Astronomy 101, Carolyn Collins Petersen brings the seemingly out-of-reach down to earth, providing basic facts and a contemporary perspective on discoveries about dark matter, the big bang, extraterrestrial life, and more.
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“I didn't find the idea for my book. It fell into my life like a ton of bricks,” Katy Butler relates. In Knocking on Heaven's Door, Butler describes her parents’ experiences with disability and terminal illness, and explores high-tech and other treatment at the end of life.
Deadline anxiety? Technostress? Take the quiz in Ruth Winter’s book, Triumph Over Tension, and benefit from expert advice on managing daily hassles.
Linda Marsa’s Fevered explores a genuinely hot topic, the impact of rising temperatures worldwide on human health.
On Science Blogs is moving to the PLoS blog network. And I'm starting a new blog at the Genetic Literacy Project. Meanwhile, Nate Silver has said more about his plans for bringing data-driven news to his ESPN/ABC blog FiveThirtyEight.com. And you can learn data-driven journalism for FREE!
Why scientists — and especially science writers and science bloggers — should be tickled pink about Nate Silver's move from the New York Times to ESPN/ABC.
Technology writer Virginia Heffernan declares for creationism. You'd think it was the end of the world. Turns out, however, that she's not really a true believer. Also, the Bigfoot Genome Project. Is Sasquatch a human hybrid and European immigrant?
How to write a blog post in an hour. Easy-peasy if you follow these rules. And leave out the interviewing. Not to mention the thinking. On Science Blogs: Aggregating and Thinking Since 2009! The state of U.S. health: Dismal. Murder by thallium. Transcranial brain stimulation for everybody, only $249.
NASW member Kathleen Wong and colleagues tell the story of the University of California Natural Reserve System (NRS) and its mandate to provide outdoor classrooms, protect research sites, and conserve ecosystems for the people of California. Wong, a science writer at NRS, pulled the book together in only six months.
Why 700,000 year-old horse DNA is a very big deal. Captive research chimpanzees are an endangered species. NIH is setting its research chimps free. Mostly. "Endangered" designation could affect hundreds of chimps in private research too. Rise of the blog networks. Parsing Obama's new actions on climate change. Are the debates about climate science over?