A couple weeks ago, Ed Yong published a talk by RadioLab’s Robert Krulwich that went viral in journalism and science-writing circles, for good reason. Speaking to graduating journalism students at UC Berkeley, Krulwich, who does some fine blogging of his own, expressed his pleasure and wonder at how blogs, twitter, and other newish tools allow […]
Continue reading →A recent twitter exchange between Tim Carmody, Alexis Madrigal, Alison Arieff, and Brendan Koerner drew my attention to this nice Snarkmarket post from Carmody on digging up material from offline, which Carmody calls paleoblogging: Two weeks ago I praised Harper’s Scott Horton, who in addition to tiptop legal/political commentary regularly serves up poignant and relevant chunks […]
Continue reading →If you care about how science writers collide with science to produce science writing — and if you’re reading anything at Wired Science, you do care, whether you realize it or not — then you’ll probably love this interview with Steve Silberman at the Open Notebook, where Steve relates how he wrote “The Placebo Problem,” a superb Wired […]
Continue reading →Are we squeezing everything we should out of the arsenic story? Some would say so. I’m not so sure. In a quick post-mortem yesterday on the Lake Mono bacterium, Brian Reid neatly ticks off how the “arsenic soap opera,” as he put it, “illustrates five trends in health and science communication that are likely to […]
Continue reading →You know that arsenic-loving bacteria briefly mistaken for an alien? The bug, which roiled the science press earlier this week when it rode an unusually high and steep hype parabola, endured a firey re-entry today when University of British Columbia bacteriologist Rosie Redfield ripped into both the research and the paper — and was quickly […]
Continue reading →Where’d Marc Hauser go? He was here a few days ago. Roy Baumeister, Paul Bloom, Joshua D. Greene, Jonathan Haidt, Sam Harris, Joshua Knobe, Elizabeth Phelps, David Pizarro The Mayflower Inn Washington, CT & Eastover Farm Bethlehem, CT Tuesday July 20 – Thursday, July 22, 2010 Edge’s Morality show lineup, cleansed of Hauser. Hm. […]
Continue reading →Over at CMBR, Colin Schultz blogs on a study that found that science bloggers in particular created more diverse, less self-referential, less echo-chamberish coverage of news than even most other blogospheric areas.
…Read those entries, and their comments, and you’ll find quite a diverse view — but one that produces a richer view of the affair, and sets useful context, rather than fogging things over or reducing things to a polarized simplistic discussion.
Continue reading →We had not been at that paper very long when stupid actions by his supervisors confronted him with a choice that no one who loves their work wants to make: Stay and be ethically compromised, or leave with intact standards and an empty wallet. … All these venues — and more are being formed as you read this — are all trying to figure out how to make money, and in doing so, must confront old questions (how to make money in a way that doesn’t compromise content) amid new financial and publications structures.
Continue reading →Some have questioned from the start whether those who left or went on hiatus were overreacting. To some, SB’s reversal seems to have confirmed we got our panties in a wad over not much. Two answers to that:
Continue reading →[This is a copy of the outta-here post I put up at ScienceBlogs this morning..] Hoo boy. I never thought I’d have to resign a blogging position in protest. But so I find. I’m dismayed at ScienceBlogs’ decision to run material written by PepsiCo as what amounts to editorial content — equivalent, that is, to […]
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