Hillary Rosner makes readers care about saving an unassuming endangered fish
Hillary Rosner Freelancer Hillary Rosner traveled to a Colorado River reservoir to meet scientists bent on rescuing an unassuming fish, the razorback sucker. The resulting story, which won the 2010...
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View ArticleAdam Rogers shadows a fungus detective
Adam Rogers For the residents of Lakeshore, Ontario, the black fungus caking their homes was a problem, and they blamed the local distillery. For James Scott, the Sherlock Holmes of fungi, the identity...
View ArticleGabriel Spitzer explores the Chicago science scene
Gabriel Spitzer Clever Apes, a science series that airs on the Chicago public radio station WBEZ, won the 2011 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award in the Radio category. Gabriel Spitzer, host and...
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Courtesy of Julia Breckenreid. (Originally published in Nautilus.) The following story diagram—or Storygram—annotates an award-winning story to shed light on what makes some of the best science...
View ArticleStorygram: George Johnson’s “Why Everyone Seems to Have Cancer”
Courtesy of Jillian Tamaki. (Originally published in The New York Times Sunday Review.) The following story diagram—or Storygram—annotates an award-winning story to shed light on what makes some of...
View ArticleHillary Rosner Makes Readers Care about Saving an Unassuming Endangered Fish
Hillary Rosner Freelancer Hillary Rosner traveled to a Colorado River reservoir to meet scientists bent on rescuing an unassuming fish, the razorback sucker. The resulting story, which won the 2010...
View ArticleSteve Silberman Finds the Placebo Effect Is … Pretty Sweet
Steve Silberman In medicine, the phrase “the placebo effect” is often prefaced by the word “just”—as though the word “placebo” were a synonym for a psychological trick or a fraud, nothing more than an...
View ArticleAdam Rogers Shadows a Fungus Detective
Adam Rogers For the residents of Lakeshore, Ontario, the black fungus caking their homes was a problem, and they blamed the local distillery. For James Scott, the Sherlock Holmes of fungi, the identity...
View ArticleGabriel Spitzer Explores the Chicago Science Scene
Gabriel Spitzer Clever Apes, a science series that airs on the Chicago public radio station WBEZ, won the 2011 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award in the Radio category. Gabriel Spitzer, host and...
View ArticleStorygram: Amanda Gefter’s “The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic”
Courtesy of Julia Breckenreid. (Originally published in Nautilus.) The following story diagram—or Storygram—annotates an award-winning story to shed light on what makes some of the best science...
View ArticleStorygram: George Johnson’s “Why Everyone Seems to Have Cancer”
Courtesy of Jillian Tamaki. (Originally published in The New York Times Sunday Review.) The following story diagram—or Storygram—annotates an award-winning story to shed light on what makes some of...
View ArticleStorygram: Jane Qiu’s “Trouble in Tibet”
Jane QiuTibetan grasslands have been a lifeline for pastoralists for thousands of years. The following story diagram—or Storygram—annotates an award-winning story to shed light on what makes some of...
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