The Aventis Prize is now in its 18th year, and marks a bastion of excellence for popular science writing.
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The Jonah Lehrer debacle has spawned a series of debates about popular science writing and journalism.
Virtually all of my science writing has had some social or policy dimension.
The general prize is often referred to as the "Booker prize for science writing", although the science prize winner often outsells its better-known counterpart.
They zeroed in on Mr. Preston because of his science writing background, which included nonfiction books about astronomy, steel and viruses, as well as a novel about bioterrorism.
ScienceBlogs, the blog network run by privately held Seed Media, which also publishes the eponymous magazine, is one of the best places to find good science writing on the Web.
We also partner with North Carolina State University where I teach courses on science writing for the media to students split equally between traditional writers and science PhD trainees who want to make their work come alive in words and images.
The series includes short stories, mysteries, essays, travel writing, science and nature writing and, my own favorite, sports writing.
Science fiction writing can only be valuable to us if it is written by someone who has some knowledge of science.
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My move from medicine to teaching high school science and writing about health care has been immensely rewarding for me.
The basic complaint is that the Bush White House puts political ideology over science when writing policy or when determining who sits on advisory panels set up to provide expert input into decision making.
And I'm surrounded by, I guess, I'd call them music geeks, music science geeks, because they're writing albums about science.
These are subjects that a science writer should popularize together with a clear, and at the same time correct, exposition of the fundamental lines of the science he is writing.
By the mid-1970s he had carved out a nice living writing pulpy science fiction and suspense novels.
Proficiency scores in reading, writing, science and mathematics for American teenagers in their last year of high school all fell between 1992 and 2005.
It is quite effective in creating Science and Technology awareness, helps to foster creativity and integrate the study of science with reading, writing, music, art and the performing arts.
Arthur Koestler argued that the creative act involved juxtaposing ideas that were not normally associated with each other, and that is where I would seek for similarities between writing and science.
Named after Hugo Gernsback, the editor of groundbreaking sci-fi magazine Amazing Stories, the Hugos (originally the Science Fiction Achievement Awards) have been awarded annually for science fiction and fantasy writing since 1953.
Publisher Tim Sanders of Net Minds persuaded him to write a book linked to Jobs, even though Bushnell had already finished writing a science fiction novel about a video game hatched through nanotechnology in 2071.
Moreover, writing well about science and technology may require dipping into a dozen different disciplines.
She quickly moved to the Science Unit as a reporter writing daily stories for the World Service's 40 or so foreign language sections.
What I want to convey with the term science-help is that several of us are writing books about a range of topics in psychology and cognitive science that are also applicable to daily living.
It has what he calls his "research, " the notes for a science fiction story he's writing.
The UC-Berkeley team, writing in the journal Science, say that increased longevity can be due to numerous factors, including better sanitation and improved healthcare.
First Florida started grading its schools from A to F, based on the proficiency and progress of pupils in annual reading, writing, maths and science tests.
All three new tests will mirror the old GED in many ways: They will be five to eight hours long and cover the basic subjects of reading, writing, math, science and history.
Since 2007, I've authored the White Coat Underground blog, writing about the intersection of science, medicine, and culture.
Writing in the journal Current Science, the Indian scientists report finding ACE-inhibiting properties in six varieties of banana.
Ebert covered high school sports for a local paper at age 15 while also writing and editing his own science fiction fan magazine.
According to Brian Stableford, writing in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, the definitive reference on the genre, Camille Flammarion was the first author to present a popular fictional portrait of truly alien life-forms.
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