Awesome scientific paper by 8-yr old kids, more on #arseniclife, more on Wikileaks, on science+art, the amazing case of bad journalists aggressively reacting to a piece of good journalism on Lyme Disease, and more:
Eight-year-old children publish bee study in Royal Society journal and Low-Grade Science: Primary School Students Conduct and Publish a Study on Bees and 8-Year-Olds Publish Scientific Bee Study and Young People Can’t {Can!} Do Real Science and Blackawton bees (paper, and video) and Blackawton bees: commentary on Blackawton, P. S. et al. and Science lessons from 8 year old children and Schoolchildren announce bumble-bee breakthrough in top science journal and ‘Biology Letters’ Science Journal Publishes Study By 8-Year-Old Children On Bumblebee Color And Pattern Vision
How Neutral Should Journalists Be? and The Chicago Tribune, “chronic Lyme disease,” and demands for false balance and Chicago Tribune off balance on chronic Lyme disease and The medium is not the message—is it?
Post Arsenic-bacteria post and Parallel Universes? Arsenic and Phosphate – The Blogosphere, the Traditional Media, and the Scientific Literature
The Blast Shack and Statism and Wikileaks and Prospect of WikiLeaks Dump Poses Problems for Regulators and Wikileaks’ Leaks Leaked: Norwegian Paper Has All the Cables and None of the Restrictions and Some Lessons From Our Reactions to Wikileaks and #NiemanLeaks big takeaway? Even post-WikiLeaks, context still key and CIA launches task force (WTF) to assess impact of U.S. cables’ exposure by WikiLeaks and WTF? OMG, LOL! CIA gives WikiLeaks taskforce naughty name and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to become member of Australian journalists’ union and The Hazards of Nerd Supremacy: The Case of WikiLeaks and Wikileaks Exposes Internet’s Dissent Tax, not Nerd Supremacy
Scientific accuracy in art and Scientific American Guest Blog and Painting With Penicillin: Alexander Fleming’s Germ Art and Elephant Live Blogging Event and Exposed! Sensual Science
It’s just a stage. A phylotypic stage. Part III: Fish and more
Scientists as rock stars? and “Rock star of science” hurts science
Author of the Day: Tom Linden and Author of the Day: Maryn McKenna
Scientists capture microglia’s role in brain connectivity
Jay Rosen on Hannah Arendt as Deep Background
When boffins go POP: Eduard Kaeser expects that the bubble of spectacular science may burst
Participatory medicine as a new way to produce medical knowledge
Climate change as a ‘grand narrative’
Science journalism and social debate on modernization risks
Science journalism in the age of crowd: interviews
Science journalism to face a demand for renewal
Leaves don’t lie – it’s winter
The Evolution Polling Numbers Have *Nudged* A Little
An Amazing, Though Clearly Little-Known, Scientific Fact: We Get More Snow Storms in Warm Years
Creativity Can Lessen Leader Image
Forget Journalism School and Enroll in Groupon Academy
Dork Ecstasy: Superheroes and the Law
Putting Some Numbers on Peer Review
Poaching, habitat loss taking toll on Bornean clouded leopard
Beyond the Light Switch: What to do about coal ash?
FCC Ends Net Neutrality Debate (for Now) by Passing Its Open Internet Order
Genomic DNA Sequences from Mastodon and Woolly Mammoth Reveal Deep Speciation of Forest and Savanna Elephants and African elephants are two distinct species and Elephant News: Africa has two distinct species, Mammoth’s nursing and extinction linked, and rare footage from Cambodia
Favourite posts: Writing Sex Scenes and 3am Epiphany: of sex and food
House Passes Overhaul of Food Laws
Marriott International – Global hotel chain embraces sustainable seafood
Using the Brain Systems, Connections, Associations, and Network Relationships (brainSCANr) engine, you can explore the relationships between neuroscience terms in peer reviewed publications. and brainSCANr search for ‘suprachiasmatic’
When is the Best Time to Publish Blog Posts? [Infographic] and When’s the Best Time to Publish Blog Posts?
The Illusion of Net Neutrality
What if we threw a data-curation party and nobody came?
Ministers and Federal Subsidies
Nasty, brutish and not that short: Medieval warfare was just as terrifying as you might imagine
“And now math is something you get.”
Do you use Boy Words or Girl Words? Or the other words, but I can’t ‘amember them.
God’s little rabbits: Religious people out-reproduce secular ones by a landslide
DNA, Denial, and the Rise of “Environmental Determinism” (and video)
Science writing and readability
Brain Cuttings: An Excerpt at Scientific American and Can You Live Forever? Maybe Not–But You Can Have Fun Trying
Pimp My Virus: Ocean Edition and The Brave New World of Giant Viruses
At the Corner of Hope and Hype
Animal Instincts: Are creatures better than us at computation?
Opinion: What would Linnaeus do?
Anti-Smoking Drug Linked to Violence, but Pfizer’s Data Says the Opposite
New Dinosaur Species Named for Johns Hopkins Postdoc (and her twin sister)
Siberian Fossils Were Neanderthals’ Eastern Cousins, DNA Reveals
Origins and Endings: Scientific American iPad app
Just Say No to Christmas Displays? – presence of Christmas Displays reduces psychological well-being in non-celebrators and non-Christians.
It’s not your imagination, there are more journalism jobs
Victory for sharks: U.S. bans shark finning
Science of TRON: Getting Up to Speed with Teleportation and Quantum Computing
Meet the Ethical Placebo: A Story that Heals and Evidence that placebos could work even if you tell people they’re taking placebos
From Fossils To New Tech: NCSU Research Highlights From 2010
A Novel Neural Substrate for the Transformation of Olfactory Inputs into Motor Output
River otter latrines: so much more than just a pile of poop!
2010′s Best Long Reads: Science & Technology
Nuclear Power – Getting more from our fleet (without new construction)
Early Reports From the ‘Dark Matter’ of the Genome
Circadian Genes and Metabolic Pathologies
Bad Metaphors Make for Bad Theories
Right-wingers want to erase how George Bush’s “Homeowner Society” helped cause the economic collapse
Discussione infinita su scienziati e giornalisti and Science-journalism split gets lost in old-new media stereotypes and Science Links + Notes
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