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06/16

SF Chronicle, Register, etc: New findings on how stem cells get their chemical “go” signals

non member blog: Knight Science Journalism Tracker created 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Stem cells, human or embryonic, presumably need a green light of some kind to start proliferating and differentiating into useful, living tissue. In Nature’s online advance yesterday, researchers at UC Berkeley reported discovery of chemical pa

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06/16

Wash. Post: New push for additional federal wilderness protection

non member blog: Knight Science Journalism Tracker created 2 weeks, 6 days ago

For a variety of reasons including shifts toward Democratic dominance and rising bi-partisan as well as local support, Congress is setting aside more land as wilderness, reports the Post’s Juliet Eilperin. She also notes the contrast of more pr

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06/16

AP etc: A slug of gulf moisture, some northern chill, a big late snowpack and next thing you know Iowa is under water

non member blog: Knight Science Journalism Tracker created 2 weeks, 6 days ago

At least it’s not global warming - not with any conviction any way. The overwhelming flooding in parts of the midwest has to have plenty of news and assignment editors yelping for the science desk to explain why it’s so freakin’ wet

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06/16

Wires, Science News, etc: A trio of Super Earths spotted by Euro team

non member blog: Knight Science Journalism Tracker created 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Wires and a few other outlets are lighting up this morning with word from a meeting on “super Earths” (masses less than 25 Earths) in Nantes, France about a big fresh haul of extrasolar planets. They include, notably, one set of three orb

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06/16

LA Times: More Pacific coast salmon woes. In Alaska’s warming rivers the chinook are getting “ick.”

non member blog: Knight Science Journalism Tracker created 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Up on Alaska’s northernmost, tundra-speckled coast the locals already have complained in recent years that global warming has made it harder to keep meat fresh in their cellars - as permafrost thaws, the ground doesn’t provide a natural f

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06/16

AP: Wire service says it overstated toxicity of that sewage sludge spread on Baltimore house yards

non member blog: Knight Science Journalism Tracker created 2 weeks, 6 days ago

In April an AP story set off a tempest in Baltimore, one buffeted by suggestions of environmental racism, in its account of a study of lead in the environment and a possible way to get rid of it. Johns Hopkins University Medical Center researchers so

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06/16

Five Grinnell College Graduates Awarded NSF GRFP

non member blog: Science and Engineering Fellowships created 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Five Grinnell College Graduates Awarded NSF GRFP The five Grinnell graduates named NSF Fellows include: * Adam Booth ‘04, with a major in physics, is pursuing graduate study in geology at the University of Oregon. * Natalie Funk ‘

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06/16

Washington Post: How a tower crane works, why it’s sometimes dangerous, why it’s usually not.

non member blog: Knight Science Journalism Tracker created 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Recent headlines about construction cranes toppling in New York and elsewhere brings a sensible, straightforward explanation of their history, how they work, and why proper handling ought to have prevented such accidents. The argument may be a little

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06/16

Nature Network Toronto pub night

non member blog: easternblot.net created 2 weeks, 6 days ago

The Toronto hub now has about 20 people (more than before!) and a group (thanks to Jen!) and will soon have its first pub night. Drop by at the Duke of York this Wednesday at 8:00 PM if you’re interested. (And if you come earlier, you can also

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06/16

Wired Magazine’s Incoherent Truths

non member blog: RealClimate created 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Many of our tech-savvy friends — the kind of folks who nurse along the beowulf clusters our climate models run on — are scratching their heads over some cheeky shrieking that recently appeared in a WIRED magazine article on Rethinking Wha

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06/14

Hologram

non member blog: easternblot.net created 3 weeks, 1 day ago

This is a hologram of a dancing girl, for a movie poster, shown at Subtle Technologies. She really moves! There was also an opportunity to visit the hologram workshop and see how holograms are made, but I didn’t have time for that.

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06/13

AP: A contest to catch giant sharks for fun and prizes; Reuters etc: Sharks about gone from Med

non member blog: Knight Science Journalism Tracker created 3 weeks, 2 days ago

Two bits of shark news today provide a contrast that doesn’t need elaboration. AP Frank Eltman filed from Garden City, NY, on the protests swirling around a shark fishing tournament. This one has $1 million in prizes. The story notes that anima

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06/13

Wash. Post: Uh oh. That Chinese earthquake ran through faults that look just like the ones next door…

non member blog: Knight Science Journalism Tracker created 3 weeks, 2 days ago

In Wednesday’s Post Joel Achenbach introduces readers to a geophysicist in Pasadena who frets that China’s dreadful earthquake seems to have arisen from a cascade of fractures on adjacent faults on the Sichuan massif. And those faults see

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06/13

Wall St. Journal - From Walden Pond to Global Warming, a flower-strewn path

non member blog: Knight Science Journalism Tracker created 3 weeks, 2 days ago

The Journal’s Robert Lee Hotz’s column this week takes readers for a woodland walk, addressing global warming writ small and with a deeply literary angle. Henry David Thoreau kept meticulous natural history records at Walden Pond, he remi

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06/13

Lots of ink, old story: Palm from 2000-year-old seed in Israel still growing, news to some.

non member blog: Knight Science Journalism Tracker created 3 weeks, 2 days ago

In 2005 news first circulated of a palm tree in Israel growing from a seed recovered at Masada, the old Roman fortress taken over by Sicarii Jewish rebels and retaken by Romans in one of the bloodiest, best-known sieges in ancient warfare. The seed w

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Reuters, some others: Yet another supernova goes off in public, media don’t make the connection.

non member blog: Knight Science Journalism Tracker created 3 weeks, 2 days ago

One role of mass media is to keep track of like events and remind readers when more come along. Journalism should promote society’s short-term, collective memory. Three weeks ago a flood of news stories (see post, May 22) described astronomers

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06/13

AP, etc: Feds warn some to avoid amalgam dental fillings. It’s the mercury.

non member blog: Knight Science Journalism Tracker created 3 weeks, 2 days ago

A consumer group called the Mercury Policy Project won - in alliance with other organizations - a victory via lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA has issued a precautionary warning to pregnant women and to parents of young child

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06/13

Science bloggers

non member blog: easternblot.net created 3 weeks, 2 days ago

Alex Palazzo of The Daily Transcript was in town for a job interview and he met some local science bloggers (me, Philip, and John) while he was here. Alex told us all about the traffic in Cambridge… …about the diminishing Nature Network

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06/12

San Diego Union-Trib: Science writer finds an angle in the local US Open

non member blog: Knight Science Journalism Tracker created 3 weeks, 3 days ago

Golf courses are easy targets for enviro bricbats. All that lawn, all those sprinklers in a season of drought, pesticides and herbicides to keep the green’s turf-only, etc. But consider this: only 30 percent of the typical course’s acrea

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06/12

Lots of Ink: GLAST takes the high road

non member blog: Knight Science Journalism Tracker created 3 weeks, 3 days ago

The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope won’t be with us much longer. NASA’s looking for a new name (along the lines of Hubble, Compton, Spitzer, and other space telescopes). But the machine is in space, its detectors getting configured

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