Author Archives: Chris Rowan

The case of the THC “shutdown”: why science is a never-ending story

All this fuss about the “F-word” should not distract from the fact that the mainstream media has problems reporting a science story even if we do pitch it right. Take, for example, Bryden et al.‘s 2005 Nature paper, which reported … Continue reading

Categories: climate science, public science

Science – a victim of framing?

I can’t help thinking that there’s a certain irony that Chris Mooney and Matt Nisbet, who are talking about how to effectively advocate your point of view through framing, have managed to raise so many scientific hackles in the last … Continue reading

Categories: public science

Stardust or probe dust?

Why should we care if there are high-temperature minerals in a comet or not?
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Categories: planets

Indonesian volcanoes excited by earthquake

Satellites back up Darwin.
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Categories: earthquakes, geohazards, volcanoes

Media sexes up seismic severity shocker

How much do eyewitness accounts exaggerate earthquake damage?
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Categories: earthquakes, geohazards, paper reviews