Science Is Awesome! Sack The Journalists!

Science Is Awesome! Sack The Journalists!

In December 2008 CNN announced that it was closing down its whole science and technology production team and moving the environmental agenda into their general news. It was as if the news world had…
Sci-Fi Writer David Brin Reveals His Secrets

Sci-Fi Writer David Brin Reveals His Secrets

David Brin (author of The Postman) is interviewed this week as part of Nature's ongoing series of interviews with science writers: Brin got his PhD in physics and then left research to write science…
Science Reporting: Bad Because It's Cheap

Science Reporting: Bad Because It's Cheap

In a column in Nature, Colin Macilwain suggests that bad science reporting is due in part to its relatively low cost: Propped up by the specious authority of their jargon and, most of all, by their…
Is Your Government Making You Fat?

Is Your Government Making You Fat?

An investigative piece so explosive, no book company marketing hyperbole can be left out. "After reading BIG FAT LIES you will never trust the government again - Dr John Briffa" Hannah Sutter says…
Marc Morano - Global Superhero

Marc Morano - Global Superhero

Marc Morano - Global Superhero In one of the most philanthropic gestures ever from a mere political journo-lobbyist, Marc Morano has taken upon his own shoulders the entire burden of global climate…
A New Kind Of Science Journalism

A New Kind Of Science Journalism

Markets work well when there’s a chain from wholesaler to retailer to customer…and back. If none of the customer payments makes it back to the wholesaler, soon there may be few to no wholesalers…
My Bummy Valentine

My Bummy Valentine

It’s Valentine Day, and children everywhere celebrated friendship and love by giving cards and candy to their friends. In what alien observers must consider one of the most bizarre human customs,…