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On Accuracy in Science Storytelling

December 2, 2019November 29, 2017

You’ve probably heard of Peter Wohlleben’s book, The Hidden Life of Trees. It purports to reveal the science of trees and forests, and to show … Read more

Tags Ben Goldfarb, book review, communication, facts, forest, forestry, Jay Ingram, Peter Wohlleben, popular science, Rebecca Boyle, scicomm, science, science comunication, science writing, trees

The Invention of Nature: Serendipity, Early Scientists, and Modern Ideas

December 2, 2019January 13, 2016

I recently read an article in The New York Times that described serendipity not as a random stroke of luck, which we usually perceive it … Read more

Tags Andrea Wulf, art, Creativity, forestry, Goethe, headwaters, Humboldt, interdisciplinarity, Kant, natural history, nature writing, science, serendipity

W is for Writing about Science

December 2, 2019April 29, 2012

This week my first popular science article in about 6 years was published in Outpost Magazine. It felt good to be science writing again – … Read more

Tags forestry, magazine, mountain hydrology, popular science, science communication, writing
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