The professor of my "New Media and Science Communication" course assigned our class to to summarize and present a scientific paper in one minute - just like the 60-Second Science podcasts from Scientific American. Here is my presentation, in both audio and transcript. Living in such proximity to the two largest producing countries of oil...

Troubling Contradictions

CBC News, October 21, 2013: Muzzling of federal scientists widespread, survey suggests.The article begins, "Hundreds of federal scientists say in a survey that they had been asked to exclude or alter technical information in government documents for non-scientific reasons, and thousands said they had been prevented from responding to the media or the public." You...