this is how we write about a new study
Hello, Guardian writer fellow! You are brilliant! This is a bitterly amusing summary of how to cover science stories. (Hint: Badly.) Here you go, little aspiring journalists: This is a news website...
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autistic-like
My pal Jody Becker’s documentary, Autistic-Like: Graham’s Story, airs on NYC’s PBS station WLIW at 3pm this Saturday, and around the country on PBS stations throughout April and May. Set your TiVo....
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Hoo boy. Psychology Today has already yanked Satoshi Kanazawa’s article, “Why Are Black Women Less Attractive Than Other Women?” from the web site. But there’s a screen grab of it here. (The answer is...
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nice job, psychology today. nice.
You recall that post by an evolutionary psychologist on Psychology Today’s blog pointing out in a totally rilly empirical manner that there is a TOTALLY RILLY SCIENCEY REASON he doesn’t want to bone...
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A commenter on my blog called my attention to the fact that my article on Green Mountain at Fox Run was on MSNBC’s front page yesterday. The piece was for Prevention magazine, but online it is also...
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Over at Love That Max, Ellen Seidman blogs about a child who was denied a kidney transplant solely because she is cognitively impaired — or, in the phrase written in the transplant doctor’s folder,...
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pink pink pink pink pink
The Empire State Building is pink! Now no one will ever get breast cancer again! This week’s Tablet magazine column is about a new documentary called Pink Ribbons, Inc, about the corporatization and...
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In the October issue of Self, I have an article about managing fear — channeling it so it becomes a galvanizing rather than paralyzing force. Since Conde Nast does different versions of stories online...
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3 picture books about awesome jews
This week’s Tablet magazine column is on illustrated biographies for kids (and grownups!) that will absolutely knock your socks off…thus making you look like Einstein. Go on and read the review, but...
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it’s SCIENCE!
Fabulous picture books on cosmology. For the wee. A column in Tablet magazine. Buy these books immediately.
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