Sunday, April 24, 2016

Hiking the tow path, past the eagles's nest...

http://niemanstoryboard.org/stories/power-of-narrative-conference-mary-roachs-bad-habits/
This is an article from Neiman Storyboard about science journalist/author Mary Roach's narrative style.



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http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6284/408.full
Article in Science magazine about food waste





http://www.wired.com/2016/04/science-professors-arent-confusing-theyre-wrong/
From Wired, about how biology is not "clear-cut".

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/apr/27/brain-atlas-showing-how-words-are-organised-neuroscience
According to Guardian Science, UC Berkeley neuroscientists have created an atlas of the brain which shows which parts of the brain respond to certain words and have created a website where people can explore the brain atlas:


http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/ice-lake-suwa-japan-torne-river-climate-change-monk-shinto/
News from National Geographic about Shinto monks recording climate change data for the past 6 centuries.




https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160428124108.htm
From the British Journal of Nutrition, how eating chocolate every day can help your heart as reported in Science Daily.

http://labblog.uofmhealth.org/health-tech/artificial-placenta-holds-promise-for-extremely-premature-infants The University of Michigan reports research that an artificial placenta can help extreme premies. This research is preliminary and hasn't gone into clinical trials yet.
https://youtu.be/r4Tp7dm2Blo


https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/06/09/college-is-not-a-commodity-stop-treating-it-like-one/ From the Washington Post, an article about the commodification of higher education.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnOTprOTHc8&feature=youtu.be  360 degree tour of the solar system from The Thought Cafe on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FyN5_-njAU Here's another 360 degrees tour I confess I haven't looked at yet.

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