Press releases should be about people

Posted in Science at 1:00 pm by David Bradley -- 3 Comments; add yours  

We’re all increasingly familiar with corporate press releases. There are countless websites that regurgitate the corporate and institutional public relations output for wider and wider audiences.

If you’re familiar with the blogosphere, you will almost certainly recognise that many posts simply echo the notices provided by the likes of Eurekalert, AlphaGalileo, and the more generic wire services. Indeed, Sciencebase has a set of pages that lists the current press release headlines so …

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Climate emails, MS trek, Gulf Stream safe

Posted in Science at 10:00 am by David Bradley -- Click to comment  

Latest science news snippets

Hacked climate emails – Hacked climate email inquiry clears Jones but questions remain
Trekking for multiple sclerosis – Wendy Booker (wendybooker.net), is determined to change the face of MS. Her mission? Climb the Seven Summits—the highest mountains on each continent; making her the first person with an MS diagnosis to do so. Expectations are she’ll conquer Everest, at 29,000 feet (the last of the Seven Summits) this May — right around …

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Materials, water, and light

Posted in Science at 6:09 pm by David Bradley -- 2 Comments; add yours  

Some scientific links from this week, including my Materials Today news round up.

Periodic Table of Parodies – Yet more periodic table fun and games
Similar websites to Sciencebase – This neat little tool automagically works out your site's keywords and searches for other sites with the same keywords
The long and winding road to synthetic silk – Unravelling the secret of silk's incredible strength could allow materials scientists to develop a synthetic version for …

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