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Weekend video break: Journalism in the age of data
Knight Fellow Geoff McGhee created this polished video documentary series about how data visualization is infiltrating and transforming journalism. Interviews with Many Eyes creators Fernanda Viegas...
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The New York Times thinks bioanimation is pretty cool
The New York Times decided earlier this week that biological animation warrants its own article. About time! Seriously, for those of you who haven’t discovered BioVisions‘ amazing animations, you...
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Weekend reading
Here are some essay links I’ve had open as tabs in my browser for over a week, waiting to be posted. Unfortunately, I don’t have time to do the extensive commentary they deserve, so I’m admitting that,...
View ArticleSpidergoats! A Synthetic Bio Horror Movie?
So I’m all in favor of promoting struggling artists, and that includes documentary filmmakers. But I have to say I’m a little taken aback by the aesthetic of the “Synthetic Bio” documentary project by...
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ScienceBlogGRRRRL Power!
I’m honored to get a brief shout-out today from the awesome Ed Yong in his post on female bloggers. I mention this not to toot my own horn, but to call attention to the amazing number of women...
View ArticleA geoblogger & her nuclear engineer dad team up to explain the Japan situation
For everyone frustrated with the unscientific, spotty, incoherent and often inaccurate coverage of the Japanese nuclear plant situation: one geo-blogger and her dad try to help out. Now THAT is how you...
View ArticleStop torturing me, MIT!
Now this is just cruel: yesterday the Cambridge Science Festival kicked off – a week of science, sciart, sci-journalism and sci-education activities at MIT, Harvard, the Museum of Science, and...
View ArticleThis is actually fracking good
I was playing The Fracking Song last night about midnight, and my boyfriend was grooving to it. At the end he asked, “what was that about?” “Uh. . . fracking.” “Which kind of fracking?” Yes, we are a...
View ArticlePseudonymity: Five Reasons the New Scienceblogs/NG Policy is Misguided
Recently, Scienceblogs/National Geographic decided it would no longer host pseudonymous science bloggers. As a result, many of my former colleagues have left. I think this decision was wrong. Read on...
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