Earlier this week, Jeffrey Brainard sent me an email asking whether I’d look at a series on sea level rise in the Chesapeake Bay, produced and published jointly by the […]
Some GMO advocates say Bill Nye isn’t the Science Guy.
Climate scientists and evolutionary biologists love Bill Nye. Keith Kloor, at his Discover blog Collide-a-Scape, describes him as a “stalwart defender of evolution and climate science” who “relishes verbal debate” […]
You won’t believe what the AARP published about breast cancer!
Pardon the clickbait headline, but I honestly could not believe what the AARP published about breast cancer in the cover story in the current issue of AARP The Magazine. Here […]
Fish jokes? This one isn’t funny.
After the Supreme Court heard oral arguments last week on a case in which a fisherman is charged with violating evidence for destroying undersize fish caught illegally, many news sites […]
Beware Fake Heather: A writer’s tale of identity theft.
Last Friday, Heather Boerner, a San Francisco-based medical writer, got an email from someone who said he had hired her through oDesk, a web marketplace where employers and freelancers can […]
Nate Silver’s fivethirtyeight improves its science coverage in a single stroke.
Nate Silver‘s data site FiveThirtyEight.com has improved its faulty science coverage in one single master stroke: It has hired the widely respected and admired science writer Christie Aschwanden. Silver, justly […]