Week In Review
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Extinction’s Tipping Points
March 12, 2010
How the extinction of the dinosaurs, Arctic methane leaks, and nuclear weaponry reveal the precarious thresholds of life on Earth.
public perception, resilience, space, systems, week in review
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Press Gang
March 05, 2010
With New York City about to let bloggers qualify for press passes, a look at what breaking down the walls between old and new media means for science reporting.
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Stranger than Fiction
February 25, 2010
There's no shortage of movies that play fast and loose with the laws of nature. One scientist is on a mission to fix these flaws, but will it really improve scientific literacy?
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Zero-Sum Game
February 19, 2010
With two power-players—Bill Gates and Barack Obama—placing their bets on nuclear energy, another round of debate begins over its place in a carbon-free future.
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Getting Snowed
February 12, 2010
As major storms cover the northeast, the classic canard of conflating climate with weather takes on ridiculous new forms. But is it better to fight or ignore them?
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Slate of the Union
January 29, 2010
A few hours after Steve Jobs announced the iPad, President Obama delivered a slightly more important speech. What he said—and didn’t say—about the future of science funding and NASA.
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Pay to Play
January 22, 2010
With the New York Times announcing that it will start charging for its website, an examination of why scientific and journalistic publishing seem to be headed in opposite directions.
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Trust in the Twitterverse
January 15, 2010
With the world scrambling to cover the recent devastating Haitian earthquake, journalists, neuroscientists, and everyone in between are testing the frontiers of social media.
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What a Water-Full World
December 18, 2009
The discovery of an ocean-covered planet prompts reflections on the purpose, cost, and value of our forays into the great unknown of outer space.
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Search Me
December 11, 2009
Amid a roll-out of a number of new features, Google’s biggest change went largely unnoticed, even though it could further fragment our shared pool of knowledge.
bias, climate, consensus, information, social science, week in review
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Works in Progress
December 03, 2009
Whether it is climate change or life on Mars, revealing the hairy—and human—underbelly of how science is done means controversy for the public at large.
bias, climate, policy, robotics, space, truth, week in review
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Hair Raiser
November 20, 2009
Malcolm Gladwell and Steven Pinker duel over balancing scientific rigor with relatable narrative, while the future of personal genomics goes under the microscope.
biotechnology, communication, social science, week in review
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Signs from Above
November 13, 2009
The release of an apocalyptic movie prompts NASA to debunk planetary rumors, fowl play shuts down the LHC, and the Catholic Church discusses alien life.
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Sad Sacks
November 06, 2009
As a UK adviser is fired over politically unpalatable advice and an English teacher is suspended over an article about animal sexuality, the fate of facts is on the line.
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Pushing a Power Portfolio
October 30, 2009
As alternative energy funding plans are rolled out, a long-running debate over nuclear rages on Earth and in space.
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Brains and Storms
October 23, 2009
A pair of elegant experiments delve deep into the brains of animals, while a pair of authors stir up a storm over their take on global warming.
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Back From the Future
October 16, 2009
A crazy theory about the Higgs-Boson sparks debate in the physics community, and the perils of cloud computing becomes all too real.
lhc, risk, technology, time, truth, week in review
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Heads Up
October 09, 2009
As the Nobels are awarded, President Obama and friends grab their telescopes and head injuries to athletes go under the microscope.
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Futurity Imperfect
October 02, 2009
The science journalism community weighs in as a new website blurs the line between reporting and public relations.
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The One that Got Away
September 25, 2009
A dead fish has caused a stink over false positives in fMRI studies, and while gloom and doom reign at UN climate talks, renting a movie you actually like has never been easier.
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World
Press Gang
With New York City about to let bloggers qualify for press passes, a look at what breaking down the walls between old and new media means for science reporting.
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Culture
The Ancient, Distant, and Dead
Inspired by scientific research, Katie Paterson creates art based on data from faraway melting glaciers, long-dead stars, and the initial moments of the universe.
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Ideas
A Sober Assessment
Alcohol is an important part of life in many cultures throughout the world, but there are many misperceptions about this common social lubricant.
