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sethmnookin: 1st class Delta security line in Boston longer, w/fewer TSA agents. I guess some people would rather miss flight that mingle w/hoi polloi.
EmilyAnthes: Navy dolphins discover rare old torpedo http://t.co/1a9PyNGtc7 via @latimes
TravisSaunders: Full text of very cool new paper posted to the #SBRN website http://t.co/vsrF3kuDB2
hillaryrosner: OK meteorologist just called Moore tornado "the worst tornado in the history of the world." Jesus. http://t.co/JPiW0OARL6
stevesilberman: The Fillmore East, through the lens of seminal rock photographer Amalie Rothschild. http://t.co/uCvYL5IO75
daniel_lende: RT @vaughanbell: How self-invented sign languages help us understand the birth of language http://t.co/0kEh0KaYyh Great short research video
mfenner: RT @RickyPo: Officially Entering “And Then They Fight” Phase of Open Access http://t.co/ZxBKruKLWE #openaccess
MrEpid: RT @jasonyork33: What's next , Ottawa parents threatening there kids that if they don't eat their vegetables,Matt Cooke will get them.
BethSkw: RT @usairguitar: All true! RT @BethSkw @ftrain inc "must be invisible & be a guitar" & "Air roadies are allowed, but must leave the stage b…
Jason_Reads: RT @nycjim: KFOR reporter confirms that students were in Plaza Towers Elementary School, then he's overcome with emotion.
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Blog Archives
The state of science writing, circa 2012: The summer of our discontent, made glorious by the possibilities of our time
Category: Journalism, Media, Science, Science Writing
Tagged ADHD, ars technica, autism, Bob Dylan, Brendan Maher, cancer, Cryptogenomicon, DNA, Ed Yong, Emily Willingham, ENCODE, Evolver Zone: Genomicron, Ewan Birney, Gizmodo, hookworms, JAMA, Jesus Diaz, John P.A. Ioannidis, John Timmer, Jonah Lehrer, Leonid Kruglyak, Mike White, Naomi Wolf, nature, newspapers, PLoS ONE, Sean Eddy, T. Ryan Gregory, The Finch and the Pea, The Guardian, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vagina, Wired
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SciWriteLabs 8.3: Adjudicating the Lehrer plagiarism accusations. Plus: Are we ignoring the truly frightening trends in journalism?*
Category: Ethics, Journalism, Media, SciWriteLabs
Tagged Arianna Huffington, Carl Zimmer, Chicago Tribune, David Quammen, Deborah Blum, Jack Shafer, Jane Jacobs, Jim Romenesko, Jonah Lehrer, Journatic, Lou Dobbs, Malcolm Gladwell, Oprah Winfrey, plagiarism, Salon.com, The New York Times, The New Yorker, This American Life, William Goldman
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Autism roundtable, Part I: Angry parents, disability rights, and living in a neurotypical world
Category: Autism, Media, Science
Tagged Amy Harmon, Apple, applied behavioral analysis, Ari Ne'eman, Asperger syndrome, autism cults, Autism Diva, Autistic Self Advocacy Network, Defeat Autism Now!, DSM, Grateful Dead, ipad, Jenny McCarthy, John Elder Robison, Kristina Chew, Left Brain/Right Brain, Loving Lampposts, Lydia Brown, Neurotribes, Paul Collins, Ralph James Savarese, Shannon Des Roches Rosa, Steve Silberman, Temple Grandin, The Huffington Post, The New York Times, The Panic Virus, The Thinking Person's Guide to Autism, Todd Drezner, Tom Lehrer, vaccines
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“The risk that watching ABC News will cause your head to explode can’t be ruled out.”
Category: Journalism, Media
Tagged ABC News, British Medical Journal, cancer, cellphones, scare mongering, Tara Parker-Pope, The New York Times
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ABC News lies to readers, pretends 2009 news story on vaccines was written last week.
Category: Journalism, Media
Tagged ABC News, Andrew Wakefield, Emily Main, FDA, Liza Gross, Michelle Bachmann, PLoS Biology, Rick Bragg, Rodale, The New York Times, thimerosal
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The Kingdom and the Paywall
Category: Articles, Housekeeping
Tagged Arthur Sulzberger Jr., Baghdad, Hard News, New York Magazine, The New York Times, Vanity Fair
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