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Kevin Vranes has a phud in Physical Ocean- ography and Cli- matology. He now studies sci- ence policy and politics at the CSTPR. (More in the about.)
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Journalism:
One thing I don't do in blogging is pick on one person and keep harping harping harping endlessly on the poor dead horse(man). (Even when they deserve it, like Paul Epstein.) So this will be the last Laurie David/NSTA post,...
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Posted on December 4, 2006 12:30 PM • 1 Comments
My original post on Laurie David's WaPo op-ed is here. A reader just added a comment that links to the Wisconsin Society of Science Teachers' blog (not a daily read for me, but hey, I have to pick the 2...
Posted on November 30, 2006 5:15 PM • 8 Comments
You might have seen a few other SBers pick up Laurie David's WaPo op-ed from last Saturday. You might have even seen the topic appear in the SB Buzz. And by now you might have seen the NSTA response and/or...
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Posted on November 29, 2006 5:42 PM • 10 Comments
Colorado Confidential is a multi-blogger news project started in September by New Journalist program. They are supposed to functioning more like real journalists than (what has become) traditional bloggers and so far I like what I see. I've only been...
Posted on November 6, 2006 6:49 PM • 0 Comments
... that beyond just not paying well, it pays abysmally? I was just catching up on a little blog reading and saw this Matt Nisbet post from last week. Matt is reporting on a survey of environmental reporting (I think...
Posted on September 14, 2006 1:09 PM • 8 Comments
This was the scene at 6th and Canyon in Boulder, Colorado today as hordes of swarming televangelijournalists converged on the Boulder County Courthouse. (I hope you don't need me to tell you why, but if you do, check this link...
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Posted on August 17, 2006 6:05 PM • 7 Comments
Matt Nisbet and Chris Mooney have an excellent piece on the coverage of hurricanes and global warming here. Matt asked me to comment a few days ago when they posted the piece. Unfortunately, Matt and Chris are so spot-on and...
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Posted on August 9, 2006 1:32 PM • 1 Comments
It's not often that geologists get featured on NPR, but when you publish a paper in Nature that discusses the destruction of Los Angeles via fire and brimstone, you're going to be called upon to give interviews. Here's the exchange...
Posted on June 21, 2006 9:36 PM • 3 Comments
It's very rare that I highlight charity opportunities. In fact I haven't since I started blogging about a year ago. But I've been following the Jill Carroll saga since its start, probably because I'm a wannabe journalist (there was a...
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Posted on June 7, 2006 3:53 PM • 0 Comments
