Here’s what I wrote for New Scientist in June: First article (web, assigned, 500 words): http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17271-japanese-probe-set-to-crash-into-moon.html First article of my own initiative (web, 500 words): http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17278-junk-food-gives-crow-chicks-a-weight-problem.html First interactive piece(1200 words and some video/HTML editing): http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17341-explore-how-climate-change-might-affect-the-us.html First bylined print article (400 words): http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227133.900-health-clues-found-in-big-tobaccos-files.html First story turned around in one day (500 words): http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17371-us-grandparents-smarter-than-uk-counterparts.html First physics article [...]
No more RPM contest, but I’m still making sounds. Here are this week’s: Monday: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Tuesday: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Wednesday: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Thursday: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Friday: [Audio clip: view full post to listen]
Last week I checked out the MIT Science Journalism Panel organized by the MIT Careers Office. Jonathan Fildes, Science and Technology reporter for BBC News, Karen Weintraub, Deputy Health/Science Editor for the Boston Globe, and Trisha Gura a freelance science and medical journalist and author of Lying in Weight spoke about a range of issues [...]
Noam Chomsky spoke this evening at MIT about Gaza, Israel, and US foreign policy. Here’s the tweetstream, followed by some audio of the talk and the QnA afterwards. (apologies for the crappy audio) display_tweme_list(tweme_data, “tweet-list”, false); Here’s the talk: Noam Chomsky on Gaza 1/13/2009 at MIT by mainsequence Here’re some of the questions and answers [...]
I have a story in the January edition of the NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) digest on the true effects of “Work First” welfare reform. “…welfare reforms have reduced both the probability that women aged 21-49 will attend high school and that those aged 24-49 will attend college, by 20-25 percent. These findings suggest [...]