Health News Review has won one of the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism.
An interesting blog: Fun-Motion, about Physics-Based Games.
From Columbia Journalism Review: Weird Science: Why editors must dare to be dumb
“Science reporters’ top challenges include finding photos and well-spoken researchers” – conclusions of the Science Communications Survey (pdf), conducted by EurekAlert! and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, July 2006.
From Adventures in Ethics and Science, you should read Journalism, advocacy, and distrust of scientists.
From Science & the City: CSI, Crime Scene Insects. “A new interactive exhibit at the New York Hall of Science”
From Seed Magazine: How Chopin is like jazz
I just found inkycircus, a very nice science blog.
AN INTERESTING weblog written by Diarmaid Mac Mathúna, from Ireland: Science Communication Review.
From Nature: 50 popular science blogs.
Science for all: is public engagement engaging the public?
Conference Report
[3–4 April 2006, Manchester Conference Centre]
From Communiqué: Munich Launch of Implementation Plan
Communiqué will launch its implementation options for a European research media service on Tuesday 18 July at a lunchtime reception during ESOF 06 in Munich.
From the European Research Information Centre: ETHNIC – Minorities to science and technology!
Children are children, no matter where they are born – but do they all have the same opportunities to attain their maximum potential? The ETHNIC project set out to raise awareness of science and technology among children and their parents from ethnic minorities. All too often even in our modern European societies young people from ethnic minorities are being left behind in terms of educational achievement partly due to circumstance and partly due to low expectations.
KRIEGHBAUM, H. (1967) Science and the mass media. New York: New York University Press, p.207.
