As I reported on Nov. 24, Gary Schwitzer and his HealthNewsReview.org will soon be back. In a post today, Schwitzer provides details of the project’s return. The most important detail […]
BuzzFeed News hires Virginia Hughes to set up new five-person health and science desk.
Virginia Hughes, a contributing editor at Popular Science and Matter and the author of the Only Human blog at National Geographic, has been named science editor at BuzzFeed News, the news […]
Takedown: Helmuth at Slate rips into racist, sexist remarks by Nobel laureate James Watson.
James Watson and Francis Crick did not discover DNA. “Nuclein,” as DNA was initially called, was discovered in 1869 by a Swiss chemist named Friedrich Miescher. And they did not […]
Detroit: Challenging elitism, racism, and obesity with a grocery store.
Toyoda Ruff’s son, a freshman honor student, had just crossed the 300-pound mark, and she was taking him to a children’s weight-loss clinic. At 270 pounds, her husband wanted to […]
Gary Schwitzer and HealthNewsReview.org are baaaaack!
I’m happy to report breaking news from a good friend of the Tracker, Gary Schwitzer, who for years has rivaled (more likely, exceeded!) the Tracker in the ferocity with which […]
To dream the improbable dream: MIT’s football team is undefeated!
You’re forgiven if you didn’t know that MIT has a football team. When I went to school there, it didn’t. Not only does it have a football team–it has a […]