Excellent Science Writings: Recent Episodes
Saugat Bolakhe
For the 9th episode, we are joined by Alex Ip. Alex is editor in chief at 'The Xylom', a place that tells stories of science and humanity. We hope that you enjoy our 30 mins of conversation.
In this episode, I am joined by Rena Kingery, a scicomm graduate student at John Hopkins University. She lives in northwest Washington State. Her words have appeared in Discover Magazine, Oceanbites---a marine science blog run by the University of Rhode Island, and a regional magazine called Bellingham Alive. She loves writing about marine science.
The 8th episode of the Excellent Science Writings features Nikk Ogasa. Nikk is a science journalist at Scientific American and have written for a lot of places. In the podcast we discussed about these two articles. Follow Nikk on Twitter @nikkogasa. 1.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/23/magazine/climate-migration.html 2. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/rice-agriculture-feeds-world-climate-change-drought-flood-risk
In the seventh episode of the excellent science writing podcast I am joined by an Aspiring Science and Photojournalist Krishna Sharma. Sharma is an ecology graduate and recipient of this years AAAS mass media fellowship. As a part of this fellowship, Sharma wrote four long form science stories for the Miami Herald. One of his favourite Science article is about the potential of indigenous knowledge in saving pristine region such Antarctica (link 1). And one of his own favourite work is about a piece that he wrote on Monarch Butterflies (link 2). Listen to our conversation and say hi to Krishna over twitter @KrishnaS1241. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/maori-polynesian-antarctica-history-conservation.amp https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/article252505663.html
This marks as the first episode with an experiment. I am looking forward to invite more of my friends in the podcast. Today, my friend Daniel joined me all the way from California. We had great time talking about our experiences in the field of science communication, our first encounters, growth, future plans and loads of other stuff. And at the end we focused about a work Daniel found quite intriguing lately. The article we talked at the end : https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/31/science/colombia-birds-expedition.html
This is quite a piece. Katherine breaks down the origine of butts and its divergence in refreshing way. Full piece: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/05/evolution-butts/618915/
A child's 78,000 year old grave marks Africa's oldest known human burial by Bruce Bower for Science News. Link: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/africa-oldest-known-human-burial-child-grave-cave
In this super cool episode we are reading an excellent piece from Carl Zimmer about some zombifying fungus called Ophiocordyceps. The article was originally published in New York Times. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/science/ant-zombies-fungus.html
Why do mountain gorillas beat their chest? This is a fascinating read from Jason Bittel. I liked how simple yet effective this article is. Well articulated. Link: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/why-do-gorillas-beat-their-chests
The winner of DC Science Writers Association awards. Written by Jonathan Lambert for the Science News. The article link: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/hummingbirds-black-metaltail-cold-torpor