After several absorbing days at ScienceWriters2014, I’ve fallen behind. Here are a few quick things that I didn’t want to miss: Meredith Levine wrote an interesting piece for CBC News in […]
Isolation? Quarantine? Choose carefully when covering Ebola.
When a person infected with Ebola is moved away from others to prevent the spread of the disease, is that isolation? Or quarantine? I’ll admit I wasn’t sure, but now […]
Suppose 50,000 Americans died of Ebola every year…
Ebola has killed one person in the United States. Several others are infected. And yet the emergency is considered so severe that President Obama canceled a campaign trip today “so […]
Update: Discoverer of ‘Alzheimer’s in a dish’ was a cheerleader for a study that failed.
Yesterday, I posted on a story in The New York Times by Gina Kolata that contained more superlative adjectives than you can find in some of the most overheated advertising […]
Ebola, make way for Lassa.
Erika Check Hayden had a nice piece in Nature a couple of weeks ago in which she did a very good job of placing us in a clinic in Sierra […]
Open Notebook offers writing fellowship for early-career science writers.
The Open Notebook is seeking applicants for fellowships that give early-career science writers the opportunity to write five articles over a four-month period on the craft of science writing. The […]