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Linda Marsa’s Fevered explores a genuinely hot topic, the impact of rising temperatures worldwide on human health.

On Science Blogs is moving to the PLoS blog network. And I'm starting a new blog at the Genetic Literacy Project. Meanwhile, Nate Silver has said more about his plans for bringing data-driven news to his ESPN/ABC blog FiveThirtyEight.com. And you can learn data-driven journalism for FREE!

Technology writer Virginia Heffernan declares for creationism. You'd think it was the end of the world. Turns out, however, that she's not really a true believer. Also, the Bigfoot Genome Project. Is Sasquatch a human hybrid and European immigrant?

How to write a blog post in an hour. Easy-peasy if you follow these rules. And leave out the interviewing. Not to mention the thinking. On Science Blogs: Aggregating and Thinking Since 2009! The state of U.S. health: Dismal. Murder by thallium. Transcranial brain stimulation for everybody, only $249.

Whether we are trying to figure out how to avoid participating in a “trust fall” activity at an office team-building event or debating how much our key stakeholders trust the scientific information that they see in the media, trust is a recurring theme in our professional lives. With all of the time our community spends focusing on trust, we thought it would be worth exploring some recent research that can provide some insight into how issues of trust play out in science communication.

NASW member Kathleen Wong and colleagues tell the story of the University of California Natural Reserve System (NRS) and its mandate to provide outdoor classrooms, protect research sites, and conserve ecosystems for the people of California. Wong, a science writer at NRS, pulled the book together in only six months.

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Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics

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