by Jane J. Lee | Nov 21, 2010 | Posts
I had a chance to cover a demonstration last week involving the military and unmanned autonomous vehicles (a.k.a. robots) for my internship. The robots were designed to fly out, locate wounded soldiers on a battlefield, and relay the soldier’s vitals like heart...
by Catherine Meyers | Nov 21, 2010 | Posts
As our first quarter as SciCom students nears its end, I realize I’ve been spending a lot of time staring at my computer screen. This weekend, a visit from my parents provided a much needed excuse to leave the digital world and go out exploring. Here are some photos...
by Susan L. Young | Nov 21, 2010 | Posts
Anyone flying on November 24th this year should probably plan to get to the airport extra early: A group of travelers’-rights advocates are organizing a nationwide boycott of the full-body scanners used in security checks in airports. The Wednesday before...
by Sascha Zubryd | Nov 20, 2010 | Posts
Scientific American is all about the intersection of magic tricks and neuroscience this month. I’m sure some of you may know about it already, but I thinks it’s too interesting to not post about. I found it on Twitter (thank you, @sciam_live): SciAm video...
by Sandeep Ravindran | Nov 18, 2010 | Posts
photo © 2008 Fang Guo | more info (via: WylioWhile at my Salinas Californian newspaper internship yesterday, we were visited by school kids taking a tour of the building. “This is where our reporters work,” said the tour guide, as she walked by me. It brought back...
by Nadia Drake | Nov 17, 2010 | Posts
Tuesday, 3:30 p.m., PST N: Keith and I are at our hotel in Irvine, the Marriott-something-or-other-resort-and-spa. It’s next door to Bloomingdale’s. Orange County. We’re chilling here for a few days while we attend the Keck Futures conference on...
by Donna Hesterman | Nov 17, 2010 | Posts
Here I sit, digging my lede out of the second paragraph — I hope it’s okay. It’s been down there since Monday with no food or water. My editor found it. He heard it whimpering under the crushing weight of a superfluous first paragraph. That’s...
by Danielle Venton | Nov 17, 2010 | Posts
Not much is off limits. In research, if you can quantify it, you can study it. In journalism, if you can justify it, you can do it. Our class stories appeared on mongabay.com this week. I wrote about researchers who study cheetah fertility with ultra-sonography....
by Melissae Fellet | Nov 16, 2010 | Posts
I watched a fantastic Nature special on PBS this week about wolverines. I always thought of these critters as small bears with exceptionally angry attitudes. But they’re actually quite fascinating. First off, the wolverine is a weasel, not a bear. They’ll...
by Jane J. Lee | Nov 14, 2010 | Posts
The thing with having such a common name is that it’s both a good thing and a bad thing. It’s good because googling yourself brings up tons of other people, all with your name, and you can get lost in the crowd. The bad comes when you go to the emergency...
by Catherine Meyers | Nov 14, 2010 | Posts
In preparation for a spring class in investigative journalism, my classmates and I began filing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests this week. There is a certain amount of glamour in investigative journalism. Think clandestine meetings, code names, scandals,...
by Sandeep Ravindran | Nov 11, 2010 | Posts
I realized there were no photos of the UC Santa Cruz campus on this blog, so I thought I’d add a few. These are photos that I snapped on my phone’s camera on my way to class in the morning. I apologize for their quality, my phone can only do so much…...
