How can we make a monster problem more manageable? This was the conundrum facing participants at “Tipping the Scales on Climate Change,” an April 20 panel discussion sponsored by KSJ and Undark as part of the Cambridge Science Festival.
Carl Zimmer’s Cure for ‘Boring Genome Syndrome’
Genome sequencing “is more and more a part of our culture,” the star science writer tells KSJ fellows. “This is a part of business. This is a part of the modern economy.”
Mark Kramer on How to Host a Science Story
At a Knight Science Journalism seminar, the veteran writer and founder of BU’s Power of Narrative Conference talks about the importance of voice.
Roll Over, Einstein
At a KSJ seminar, the MIT physicist and historian David Kaiser uses dessert, conspiracy theory, and the occasional particle detector to explain how scientists are trying to close the loopholes in quantum theory.