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https://www.newscientist.com/article/2086234-lizard-gets-to-grips-with-city-life-by-evolving-stickier-feet/  From the New Scientist,a report of city lizards having evolved "stickier" feet for scaling windowpanes without falling off. This work was done at the U of Massachusetts. This field is called "urban evolution".




http://www.msn.com/en-gb/video/animals/why-zebrafish-have-led-to-major-discoveries-in-human-genetics/vi-BBsKWhE This is a microsoft network (MSN) short video quoting research published in the journal Human Gene Therapy about the importance of zebrafish in human genetics.

http://portside.org/2016-05-07/mapping-american-social-movements-through-20th-century From a website called Portside, a collaborative project done by the U of Washington has mapped American social movements in space and time with a series of interactive maps.



http://ncse.com/climate-evolution/evolution-pros-crusading-scientistwriters-climate-change  The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) "Evolution pros" are honored for their contributions.










http://www.scidev.net/global/communication/practical-guide/how-to-report-scientific-findings.html
How to report scientific findings. From SciDevNet. For all science writers.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/35970-why-teachers-matter-in-dark-times 
An article from Truthout by the writer Henry Giroux about how teachers matter. No argument here.





http://assets.climatecentral.org/images/uploads/news/5_9_16_Andrea_TempSpiralEdHawkins.gif  Climate change graphic showing global climate change since 1850.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/healthy-weight-bmi-overweight From Science News a long term study reported in JAMA that the BMI associated with the lowest death rate has risen from 1976 to 2013 (the period of time that the study was in progress.




http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/
This is a link to a blog entry by scientist Michael Eisen refuting Siddhartha Mukherjee's epigenetics article. It's important to report about science in the media and critical to maintain accuracy and complexity, both of which are easily sacrificed.





http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2016/05/12/creationist_ken_ham_tweeted_a_series_of_very_bad_claims_meant_to_be_scientific.html
From Slate,  Phil Plait, the author of the Bad Astronomy blog, takes Ken Ham to task for a series of Tweets belaying his incorrect understanding of science.



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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/10/science/a-window-into-the-workings-of-zika.html?_r=0 From the Tuesday NYT Science Times a report about a 23-year-old JHU graduate student's suggestion to test the 3-D model of the brain her research group had developed with the Zika virus. This work showed that Zika infects neural progenitor cells and will be published in Cell.




https://psmag.com/the-bionic-woman-of-good-science-3194be8570db#.cwpr6yy4j
An article in Pacific Standard about Jane Lubchenko , an environmental scientist.





http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0512/Missing-mitochondria-Strange-eukaryotic-cell-lacks-powerhouse  OK. Time to revise the dogma: Scientists at the University ot British Columbia have found a eukaryotic cell  without mitochondria. This will be published in Current Biology.