Healthcare on life support. Embargoes. Climate of death threats. The last of ScienceOnline2010 online. Will the sanguinary iPad save print media?
On science blogs
More aftershocks. Schrodinger's health care bill. Healthcare-less? Polling the polls. Haiti health care becomes a reality series. ScienceOnline2010 online.
Catastrophe in Haiti and the Devil is in the details. Plus health careless again, essay writing for scientists, searching for PubMed, and ScienceOnline2010
Tops. The end of Origins, health care again, it's cold outside and in Antarctica, and the stars come out.
Nopenhagen, more on the climate for science writing, health careless, party time.
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.
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.
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.