Hunger Game: Is Honesty Between Animals Always the Best Policy? by Natalie Wolchover: Imagine you’re a puny peacock, rendered weak by bad genes or poor nutrition. You hope to attract a peahen, who mainly cares about the length of your tail. Growing a long tail would greatly enhance your sex appeal, but the encumbrance might [...]
Keep reading »Hollywood is a fan of journalists. On the screen at least. Journalists, Hollywood would have you believe, live an adrenaline-filled life, travel the world undercover and dismantle the most obscure of plots. Journalists are part of the select heroes who, in typical Hollywood cliche, save the world. The truth is much more mundane and but [...]
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Since The SA Incubator launched in 2011 as part of the original line-up of Scientific American’s science blogging network, Bora has posted 100 blog posts here. Yes, exactly 100 at time of writing. I joined in as coblogger some months after the blog launched and have posted over 70 blog posts. From our weekly picks [...]
Keep reading »This is a series of Q&As with new, young and up-and-coming science, health and environmental writers and reporters. They – at least some of them – have recently hatched in the Incubators (science writing programs at schools of journalism), have even more recently fledged (graduated), and are now making their mark as wonderful new voices [...]
Keep reading »First Picks of the year! And I’m already looking forward to reading some great pieces throughout 2013 as well as discovering new science writers. All aboard! – Jordan Gaines continues what’s proving to be a must-read series about how retail stores manipulate our senses so that we buy more, unconsciously. In this blog post at [...]
Keep reading »What does randomness look like? by Aatish Bhatia: On 13 June 1944, a week after the allied invasion of Normandy, a loud buzzing sound rattled through the skies of battle-worn London. The source of the sound was a newly developed German instrument of war, the V-1 flying bomb. A precursor to the cruise missile, the [...]
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Democracy in action! Here are the blog posts from the “Tips” series which have received the most traffic in 2012. Tips is a series on The SA Incubator which aims to provide young and early-career science writers with, well, tips to aid them in their budding careers. It links out to existing resources available online. [...]
Keep reading »This is a series of Q&As with new, young and up-and-coming science, health and environmental writers and reporters. They – at least some of them – have recently hatched in the Incubators (science writing programs at schools of journalism), have even more recently fledged (graduated), and are now making their mark as wonderful new voices [...]
Keep reading »Welcome to the end-of-the-world edition of Picks which does not highlight any articles about the end of the world. Go figure. What this week’s picks do highlight is unsurprisingly much cooler (and at times more serious). The next Mayan inspired end-of-the-world edition of Picks will be in roughly 144,000 days. Until then… – A very [...]
Keep reading »This is a series of Q&As with new, young and up-and-coming science, health and environmental writers and reporters. They – at least some of them – have recently hatched in the Incubators (science writing programs at schools of journalism), have even more recently fledged (graduated), and are now making their mark as wonderful new voices [...]
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