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We’re All Gonna Die!!!!!!

...d cities, resulting in no new cases as of May 8. Then, just last week, CNN.com carried two stories (you can read them here and here) about a SARS-like virus called Middle East Respiratory Symptom Coronavirus, or MERS-CoV. This time there were 49 known cases with 27 fatalities, for a 55% mortality rate. So, CNN got all excited, especially when Dr. Margaret Chan, the head of the World Health Organization, who ought to know better, called the virus “...Read More

If Gene Therapy Could Save Your Life, Would You Take It?

...her works or it’s clear that it won’t. The same appears to be true when it comes to these gene-mod treatments. It’s interesting to me that there’s been little push-back against these kinds of treatments, which involve modifying a cell’s genes, as compared to the other kinds of genetic modifications scientists are experimenting with. See my previous post for some examples of this. Maybe it’s because there’s a perception that these kinds of treatmen...Read More

Would You Accept a Pig-Grown Human Organ Transplant?

...ttle on. We should remember, too, that scientists in other countries might come to different conclusions, depending on their cultural values. Could that lead to a “transplantation tourism” industry, where people from countries that prohibit or restrict such transplants would travel to countries where it was legal or easier to get? It’s good to be having these discussions now, however, and they are under way. So what do you think you would do? Plea...Read More

Science Education: Medicine and the Citizen

...ich in turn also affect your stomach. That interconnectivity is a layer of complexity on top of the complexity of how each part itself works. No organ is made of just one kind of cell, and within each organ, the cells talk to each other via chemical signals, changing their behavior and the chemical signals they in turn put out. And of course, what’s going on inside each cell is its own level of complexity. According to various web sites, including...Read More

Science Education Under Attack—The Language Barrier

...e generations from a time when its original meaning was well understood. A common example of the first case comes from medicine. One doesn’t have a “heart attack,” one has a myocardial infarction. Myo- refers to muscle and cardial refers to the heart. Dictionary.com defines an infarct as “a localized area of tissue, as in the heart or kidney, that is dying or dead, having been deprived of its blood supply because of an obstruction by embolism or t...Read More

Fight the Power (Company)–and Burglars

...un by an administrative law judge. Photo by Luis Relampago, via freeimages.com Earlier this month, Judge Martin finally released her “Recommended Opinion and Order” (ROO). We were delighted to see that she largely sided with those of us who opposed what SSVEC wanted to do. But there was one more step in the process. The ROO is a recommendation, not the final decision. That has to be made by the ACC and last Thursday, it was item #33 on a 34 item h...Read More

Critique Technique, Part 49 — Head-Hopping

...ck out when their focus returns to the first POV character. This trap is easiest to fall into when a story is being told in close third-person POV, because the focus is so much tighter on individual characters’ viewpoints. Omniscient POV can seem to head-hop because the narrator can tell the reader what each character is seeing, thinking, feeling, etc., so it’s important for you as a reviewer to correctly identify each scene’s POV selection. Examp...Read More

Critique Technique, Part 47 — Danglers

...role was never concluded. The reviewer doesn’t have many good ways to overcome this incompletion problem. He needs (a) a really good memory for the details of the story, (b) to have gotten enough of the story in a short enough time to have the chance to catch the dangler, or (c) that stroke of good luck—which usually comes at an inopportune time—in which he suddenly realizes, “Hey, what about…?” Catching that Dang Dangler So if catching and fixin...Read More

Critique Technique, Part 46 — Padding

...g or depth. A writer can pad her work in a number of ways. One of the most common is with backstory, that background material that explains why and how the hero got into his predicament in the first place; why the antagonist is the way she is, starting back in her deprived childhood; the histories of the remote monastery they now find themselves trapped in and the ascetic monks who first built it, and so on and so on. The reader needs to know all...Read More

Great Stuff for Writers, April 15, 2013

...wood (@JordynRedwood) provides a quick how-to and the link to clicktotweet.com to make it happen. THE WRITING LIFE It seems to me I’ve written about excerpts from Sage Cohen’s (@sagecohen) book The Productive Writer before, even on this topic: Make More Time for Your Writing. Nonetheless, this post from the Writer’s Digest There Are No Rules blog had one little piece that really jumped out at me. By way of several references, Cohen notes that the...Read More