Bloggers vs. Journalists: A Response to Fiona Fox (and Richard Littlejohn)

... by Martin
In a fit of apparently unintentional irony, Fiona Fox of the Royal Institution's Science Media Centre, has posted a blog on the BBC's journalism blog about how blogging isn't journalism. I'll get to that in a second, but Richard Littlejohn has also criticized blogs...
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The Litmus Test: Science policy at the general election

... by Martin
All this week, I'll be running a series of six articles and a podcast at The Guardian examining the science policies of the various parties contesting the imminent General Election. We've put a series of questions to eight of the parties, and we'll be reviewing their...
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Amateaur astronomers discovery rotating pulsar using Arecibo

Wed, 08/25/2010 - 20:59


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Perseid Meteor Shower Thursday and Friday

Wed, 08/11/2010 - 22:54


Get ready! The earth's orbit is intersecting with the orbit of the comet Swift-Tuttle tonight and tomorrow. Look up! The moon will be more faint this year, so we should have a great show. No one explained the science of meteor showers this year better than Ethan Seigel at Scienceblogs.

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The changing relationship between science journalism and scientists

Tue, 08/03/2010 - 00:54
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BP doctored photos....hilarity

Wed, 07/28/2010 - 22:01

It's pretty easy to attack BP these days--with hundreds of millions of gallons of oil floating around in the Gulf of Mexico, faulty traps and caps, and lousy attempts at compensation.

The BP photoshop mini-scandal is just one of the twigs branching off this tree of disaster. But, a funny one. Basically, BP put up a fake picture of it's 'Crisis Command Center' for the oil spill. Here's a summary in links, for those of you who haven't followed:

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Which came first, the scientist or the sensationalist?

Sat, 07/17/2010 - 01:06

The best headline I read last week is from Metafilter blog: "Scientists prove that lunch came before breakfast." In fact, journalists at major news sites all around the web reported that scientists have solved the infamous chicken-and-egg problem.

Which came first? The chicken. Definitively.

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Does religious belief really quell uneasiness? What would your neurons say?

Wed, 07/14/2010 - 17:43


Religious belief quells uneasiness in life, right? Or that's the main reason why we assume people believe.

But, is this actually true?

A group of scientist took a look at a specific area of the brain for clues.

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Philipines establishes text message system for farmers

Fri, 07/09/2010 - 23:30


The Philippines has been described as the "text messaging capitol of the world" (perhaps a little over-zealous, but you get the point.) While only 60% of the Filipino population owns a cell phone (compared to over 100% in the UK,) those who do, text about twice as often as users in the US, for example.

The country is taking advantage of the prevalence of text messaging in a new initiative to improve efficiency of rice farming. Funny, I think of farmers as such a non-technological lot.

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Football fandom--psychological diff between Scottish and English

Wed, 06/23/2010 - 20:31


Gooooaaal!

Cheering for your home team evidently solidifies your national identity if you're Scottish, while English tend to see their fan-dom as an individual preference, finds scientist Jackie Abell at Lancaster University.

This sounds like a study my 12 year old nephew would come up with. From the paper..

Support for the England football team is
not necessarily an expression of collective social identity and pride.

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"Alien Life" on Titan? Misleading headline at the Telegraph

Tue, 06/08/2010 - 23:53


Saturday, the Telegraph published an article deceivingly titled, "Titan: NASA scientists discover evidence 'that alien life exists on Saturn's moon'" Sounds pretty cool, right?

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Sex Matters! in Vaccine Efficacy

Wed, 05/12/2010 - 21:50

Could the dissemination of H1N1 vaccine have been more efficient?

If you consider sex a more pertinent variable--possibly--suggests a recent study. Lead author Dr. Sabra Klein and crew sifted through dozens of past clinical trials in search of sex differences in immune responses to yellow fever, influenza, measles, mumps and rubella, hepatitis and herpes vaccination.

Guess what? They found em.

According to the Eurekalert press release:

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