Monthly Archives: October 2010

The Pink Drink Effect

By Deborah Blum
Posted: October 25, 2010

Category: science communication, Speakeasy Science | Tagged Isis the Scientist, science blogging, science communication, science journalism, The Trouble with Harry, The Trouble with Journalists, The Trouble with Scientists | 2 Comments

The Trouble with Scientists

By Deborah Blum
Posted: October 17, 2010

Category: Speakeasy Science | Tagged Analytical Chemistry, Bryant Gumbel, David Kroll, eating insects, Murray S Blum, Royce Murray, science bloggers, science blogging, science communication, science journalism, Take as Directed, Today Show, University of Illinois | 43 Comments

How to Poison a Small Country

By Deborah Blum
Posted: October 13, 2010

Category: arsenic, poison | Tagged Albert Magnus, arsenic, Bangladesh, Borgias, Epidemiology, India. Ganges River Delta, infant mortality, inheritance powder, Lancet, poison, WHO. Reuters, World Health Organization | 13 Comments

Why I Won’t Blog for U.S. News and World Report

By Deborah Blum
Posted: October 7, 2010

Category: Speakeasy Science | Tagged cardiology, ethics, heart disease, heart failure, Living Well with Heart Failure, Mary Knudson, science journalism, U.S. News and World Report | 33 Comments

Periodically Crazy

By Deborah Blum
Posted: October 4, 2010

Category: chemistry | Tagged hydrogen, lead, Marie Curie, plutonium, polonium, radium, thallium, The Periodic Table of the Elements, xenon | 21 Comments