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Butler: Knocking on Heaven's Door

“I didn't find the idea for my book. It fell into my life like a ton of bricks,” Katy Butler relates. In Knocking on Heaven's Door, Butler describes her parents’ experiences with disability and terminal illness, and explores high-tech and other treatment at the end of life.

From ScienceWriters: Graduate programs weather tumultuous times

Are we doing the right thing by recruiting students into science journalism, which is undergoing all the upheavals that are hitting journalism as a whole? Will they find jobs or good freelance opportunities? Michael Balter of New York University’s Science, Health and Environmental Journalism Program discusses this question in the Summer 2013 ScienceWriters.

Winter: Triumph Over Tension

Deadline anxiety? Technostress? Take the quiz in Ruth Winter’s book, Triumph Over Tension, and benefit from expert advice on managing daily hassles.

From ScienceWriters: Tax rules for prizes and awards

The IRS is unyielding when NASW members receive Science in Society Journalism Awards or other awards of money or property in recognition of their journalistic or literary achievements. Writers owe income taxes on their awards. From the Summer 2013 ScienceWriters.

Megan Scudellari wins Clark/Payne Award

The winner of the 2013 Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award, an annual prize for young science journalists, is Megan Scudellari. Scudellari received the award and its $1,000 prize for “Never Say Die,” a story about aging and life extension in MATTER, a Kickstarter-funded online magazine; for an article in The Scientist about prosthetic limbs, “Missing Touch;” and for two shorter pieces.

Marsa: Fevered

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

On science blogs: Tabitha Powledge moves

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!

On science blogs: Nate Silver moves

Why scientists — and especially science writers and science bloggers — should be tickled pink about Nate Silver's move from the New York Times to ESPN/ABC.

On science blogs: Origins

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?

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