An accommodating Internal Revenue Service makes it relatively easy to correct mistakes on previous returns without the need to completely redo the returns or go through any complicated red tape. From the Winter 2011-12 ScienceWriters.
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Susan G. Komen for the Cure looks to be on life-support after defunding Planned Parenthood. A new theory-of-everything calls into question the peer-review process and institutional public-information offices. Yet more on #SciO12: the music video, the enemies of science, and making book on e-books.
All about ScienceOnline2012 (#SciO12). The meeting, the people, the blogging, the videos, the commentary, the tweets, the Storifies.
Alleluia! Next week is the blogger's Holy Week: ScienceOnline 2012. Here's how you can be there even if you're not there. Also links to the program, the people, and everything else #SciO12. Including a session on how to create an eBook, organized by Carl Zimmer and me.
The Council for the Advancement of Science Writing is updating its Guide to Careers in Science Writing and is conducting an anonymous salary survey of science writers to ensure the guide contains up-to-date salary information. They would very much appreciate your taking a few moments to fill out and submit the brief survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7RJ9KNQ.
We begin 2012 with bloggers' lists of 2011 highlights. Sex, retractions, weather, videos. Also, a timeline for the tale of faster-than-light neutrinos.
Some success at last for gene therapy. Microbes in living color. Whither the Higgs boson, not to mention particle physics? Brief hiatus.
There is a good deal of academic research that focuses on risk communication, social construction of risk, and how certain theories apply to communicating with specific populations about specific issues. We saw several papers over the last few months that really help provide some context about the world views of our audiences. From the Fall 2011 ScienceWriters.
Hurray, NASA has found Earth's twin orbiting a sun-like star! Or is it? Should we be searching only for life-as-we-know-it? Pardon Alan Turing. Open Lab 2012 winners. Once more, are bloggers journalists? Big news about the Higgs boson next week?
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