When the Rachel Dolezal affair became a major news story last week, we at first had only a few details. Her parents were claiming that she was whi…
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Read moreYesterday the Columbia Journalism Review posted an online story about recent upheavals at Science, sparked by the abrupt termination of four employ…
Read moreAs regular readers of this blog know (and many thousands of others), on October 6 I began a three month leave of absence from my position as Contri…
Read moreThe following was sent to Science's news editor this morning: 6 October 2014 TO: TIM APPENZELLER, NEWS EDITOR, SCIENCE FROM: MIC…
Read moreMany of you will have read John McPhee's recent pieces in the New Yorker about how he writes, and how he seems to be recommending that others …
Read moreHere in Paris, the main pop music TV cable channel is featuring Whitney Houston videos nonstop today. I'd have to say that this one has hit …
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