Ed Yong, one of the more followed and respected of science bloggers, stopped by the Knight Science Journalism program via Skype the other day and chatted with the Fellows. I think the talk was illuminating enough to post on our site....
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Ed Yong, one of the more followed and respected of science bloggers, stopped by the Knight Science Journalism program via Skype the other day and chatted with the Fellows. I think the talk was illuminating enough to post on our site. Take a look.
Phil Hilts
30Jul 2012
The Knight Science Journalism program at MIT has launched its new website. The mission of our program is unchanged — to offer training and to stimulate discussion among science journalists — but the new site will have more audio and video, more information on our Fellows, and a gradually-growing set of...
The Knight Science Journalism program at MIT has launched its new website. The mission of our program is unchanged — to offer training and to stimulate discussion among science journalists — but the new site will have more audio and video, more information on our Fellows, and a gradually-growing set of Knight Science Journalism Trackers to follow science and health news daily. We hope to offer more guest posts, articles and multimedia presentations on the practice of journalism as we go forward.
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One of the more difficult challenges to journalists is tracking and understanding the evidence in science and medicine. The Knight Science Journalism program has put together a four-day workshop to tackle the issues, with a dozen speakers including experts from NIH and FDA, to talk about everything from what epidemiology reporters need to know, to the latest on scientific journals, and covering particular cases from...
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Early release of a Science paper on oil-eating bacteria produced lots of stories today, and the ball bounced one more time between nature-damaged and nature-cleans-itself tales.
This came just a few days after a quick study of the plume in the Gulf made it seem as if bacteria were not moving...
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The split across the different outlets was pretty sharp in the past two days---to write the story as the Wall Street Journal's Amy Dockser Marcus did in the main story, saying as the headline does there is "New Hope in Fatigue Fight," or as...
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Astronomers are expecting a large number of new planets to be discovered in the next few years, as instruments and methods to detect them get revved up. Today's announcement from the European Southern Observatory may presage things to come---the observatory said definitely five and maybe seven planets were found orbiting a sun-like star. And a...
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A week a ago there was a spate of stories about the year in weather disasters, and many of the stories raised the question whether climate change could be said to be the cause of this year's troubles in Pakistan, Russia, Iowa, etc. Some went too far and put "proof" in the mouths of scientists. Today, Andrew Revkin reports in his blog...
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Sounds impossible, but the interview clip at BBC seems real. The experiment by Karen Olsson-...
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Victor McElheny spotted Tina Hesman Saey's story on TB last week, and this story on Genomeweb News, by ...
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After looking at a story on Scientific American's site, I spent a few minutes checking on the WHO's campaign to eradicate polio and the regularly updated world map of cases:...
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There is a story making the rounds on the east side of the Atlantic today that is pretty silly. It will be interesting to see if others fall for it on this side of the Atlantic. The Telegraph and the...
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ScienceBlogs has been reduced by yet another blogger, Matthew Nisbet, who has been the author of the Framing Science blog for the past several years. His new blog is called Age of Engagement and is housed on the Big Think site. That site has been...
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Veteran Earle Holland at Ohio State University has come to the defense of Harvard on his blog, after Harvard has suffered a pummeling in the news for not commenting much and not producing any documents about the three-year investigation of researcher Marc Hauser. (The Boston Globe broke the story, and followed up with "Harvard keeps mum as scientists call...
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I couldn't pass up this image of undersea cable connections when I saw it in Atlantic magazine online. It's interactive so you can highlight different...
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