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June 2, 2009 By Sarah Webb 3 Comments

Science, Journalism and Inform-vs-Educate

Almost 6 years ago, I attended a conference of scientists and communicators about issues of communicating global warming to the general public.  At that point I was still wearing my graduate student hat and was still learning the ropes of science writing. The issues related to global warming and the public were different– this was…

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May 28, 2009 By Sarah Webb

Connecting science and life: a guest post by Jennifer L.W. Fink

Before I was a writer, before I was a mom of four boys – before I was the mother of one boy – I was a nurse. Guess I’ve always been interested in science.  In high school, I loved biology and advanced biology.  In college, I studied anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology, microbiology, chemistry, biochemistry, nutrition and…

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May 20, 2009 By Sarah Webb 1 Comment

New York State of Mind

Five years ago today, I arrived in Manhattan with two cats, dreams of a new career, and a little overwhelmed by my move from the college-town Midwest. At that point, that Sarah could have told you generally what she wanted her career to look like in 5 years. But the woman who miraculously found a…

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May 15, 2009 By Sarah Webb

The best part about my job

Is talking to enthusiastic scientists with a story to tell. When I was at the AMNH Extreme Mammals preview on Tuesday, I talked with Natalia Rybczynski of the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, one of the scientists who discovered this fossil, Puijila darwini. It’s an exciting find: a pre-pinniped (pinnipeds are a group of…

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May 6, 2009 By Sarah Webb 6 Comments

Science research to science writing: ten principles for making the switch

May 2009 marks a milestone for me: 5 years as a full-time science writer. Folks interested in the career (usually scientists) contact me occasionally about the transition, and I caution that it’s different for everyone. But here are my basic guidelines. 1. Look before you leap. It’s easy to have a bad week, month, semester,…

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May 1, 2009 By Sarah Webb 2 Comments

Epiphanies: chewing on a good problem

I got a phone call from my husband a few weeks ago when he was away doing dissertation research. “Well, I’ve had an epiphany,” he says. “I’ve realized why what I’m doing won’t work.” This explanation was so logical, delightfully simple. I’m sure he’s right, though he now has to rejigger his experiments. After we…

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April 1, 2009 By Sarah Webb 2 Comments

Scientists as Naturally Obsessed

If you’ve done a Ph.D. in science (or particularly if you’re thinking about it) or if you’re just fascinated with the scientific process, I hope you have an opportunity to see the documentary Naturally Obsessed that chronicles the journey of three graduate students toward the scientific prize in protein crystallography. Only one of them, Robert, wins…

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January 15, 2009 By Sarah Webb

chemical art (and life) decoding

The late period of Vincent van Gogh’s art screams harmonies of color, but his earlier work was decidedly dark. I wrote a kids’ piece last fall about how chemistry and art history came together to decode a  woman’s  face lurking below the surface on one of the artist’s sunny South-of-France paintings. The x-ray technique is…

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