Monthly Archives: November 2011

SciWrite alumni featured on Bora Z’s Scientific American Incubator

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: November 27, 2011

Category: Announcements | Tagged Bora Zivkovic, ScienceOnline, Scientific American, Thanksgiving | 1 Comment

Promise ‘em Bigfoot, give ‘em science

By Bill Lattanzi
Posted: November 15, 2011

Category: Media | Tagged Bigfoot, Borgs, climate change, evolution, It's A Wonderful Life, Jackie Mason, Jimmy Stewart, journalism, Knight Fellowship, MIT, Nova, Ronald Reagan, science, Seth Mnookin, Star Trek, Stuart Brown, TED, weather porn | 10 Comments

Filter could provide cheap way to contain viral disease outbreaks

By Fangfei Shen
Posted: November 14, 2011

Category: Public health | Tagged Chemical Engineering Journal, epidemiology, France, H1N1, H5N1, H5N2, Harvard, health, Mark Lipsitch, medicine, PEI, SARS, Sergey Grinshpun, Toronto, Trong Nguyen, University of Cincinnati, University of Lyon, University of Roeun, viral filter, virus | Leave a comment

Stalking E.O. Wilson

By Lauren Maurer
Posted: November 13, 2011

Category: Geek Love | Tagged biodiversity, Biophilia, E. O. Wilson, Florida Atlantic University, Graduate Program in Science Writing, Joseph Campbell, Life on Earth, Mozambique, nerd-crush | 5 Comments

Nepotism study proves life really is unfair

By Conor Myhrvold
Posted: November 6, 2011

Category: Nepotism | Tagged academia, bureaucrats, Italy, PLoS ONE, Stefano Allesina, University of Chicago | 1 Comment