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Seven feel-good science stories to restore your faith in 2025 – Nature
Seven feel-good science stories to restore your faith in 2025 Immense progress in gene editing, drug discovery and conservation are just some of the reasons to be cheerful about 2025. By Katie Kavanagh, Email Share: Bluesky Facebook LinkedIn Reddit Whatsapp X The biggest science story this year was the political upheaval in the United States.…
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Alas, Ukrainian Rare Earths: But “There’s No There There”? – InvestorNews
“Gertrude Stein, an influential writer who spent much of her life in Paris, famously said in 1937 about her birthplace, Oakland, California, that ‘there’s no there there.’ This aphorism has become a way to describe something that fails to live up to expectations. The same can be said about Ukrainian rare earths. There are no…
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The week American journalism died | Salon.com
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to pay our respects to the dearly departed: journalism.Journalism was dearly, and it has departed. I’ve been here for a while and I haven’t seen it move a muscle. Source: The week American journalism died | Salon.com
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Talking to science deniers and sceptics is not hopeless | Nature
Fears of backfire effects are overblown, and advice to listen and interact still stands. By Lee McIntyre, 5 August 2021 I was at the March for Science in Boston, Massachusetts, on 22 April 2017, as were many scientists. About 70,000 of us descended on the Boston Common, a famous park in the city. We were…
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‘Not Sitting Quietly Anymore’: How Librarians Are Fighting Trump | Broadly
“In a political climate where truth is dismissed, it can be difficult to figure out where politics end and moral, or even professional, imperatives begin.” Though some people may think the job involves more shushing than rallying, many librarians consider “making America read again” to be a radical political proposition. Source: ‘Not Sitting Quietly Anymore’:…
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‘We did not start this fight’: In Trump era’s dawn, scientists rally in Boston – The Washington Post
#GoScience #Resistance #Facts #Truth The demonstration was a small-scale version of a much larger March for Science planned in April. Source: ‘We did not start this fight’: In Trump era’s dawn, scientists rally in Boston – The Washington Post
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FFF: The 2016 Holiday Season
[Source: U.S. Census Bureau] The Census Bureau presents holiday-related facts and figures from its collection of statistics. Source: FFF: The 2016 Holiday Season
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Christmas Tip Sheet for Journalists – DailyNewsGems
“By now with Christmas only 9 days away, many are probably rushing to do their last minute shopping, baking the last batch of cookies, feeling stressed by too many annoying Christmas songs and commercials blasting out of the airwaves, all while dashing through the snow on their one-horse open sleigh.” “No wonder we often lose…
