Essays Tagged: "science writer"

Editorial Concealed. Robert Wright, both reporter and commentator in Time Magazine. Includes review of his article "The evolution of despair"

Robert Wright is the science writer for Time Magazine. Because he writes for this popular magazine, he enjoys the attenti ... hed, Wright moves on to the task of building confidence in his readers. He lives up to his title of science writer by providing various statistics ('As of 1993, 37% of Americans felt they could trust ... oving our kin - in general, from cultivating the warm, affiliative side of human nature whose roots science is just now starting to fathom' (4). In the final assessment, the reader may be left wonderi ...

(3 pages) 66 0 4.6 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

"Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918"by Gina Kolata.

918 is often overlooked. Why this is the case, is but one of the many questions that Gina Kolata, a science writer for the New York Times, tries to answer in Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pand ... e reader's knowledge and understanding of the field will be included.Gina Bari Kolata (b.1948) is a science journalist who has been writing for The New York Times since 1988. She studied molecular bio ...

(8 pages) 92 0 4.6 Jun/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

The Biotech Century: Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the World By.

ting and stitching living material for our own economic interests. Lord Ritchie-Calder, the British science writer, cast the biological revolution in the proper historical perspective when he observed ... e Nobel Prize-winning chemist Robert F. Curl of Rice University spoke for many of his colleagues in science when he proclaimed that the 20th century was "the century of physics and chemistry. But it i ...

(4 pages) 32 0 2.0 Dec/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

Gorilla Bosses Bring Jungle to the Workplace - in APA Format

The do not accept feedback or understand other peoples points of view. David Weiner, Chicago based science writer states, "it is his or her way or the highway" (Park, 2005). These gorilla bosses bull ... s grown out of contributions from numerous earlier fields of study" (Nelson, Quick, 2006, p.5). The science of human behavior is what psychology is all about. Its origins are traced to philosophy and ...

(7 pages) 40 0 5.0 Aug/2007

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

"Leather-Back Turtles"

al extinction and make a difference in the animal kingdom and our world.As stated by Peter Tyson, a science writer, "Advanced technology allows the investigation of ecology and helps us discover thing ...

(1 pages) 6 0 3.0 Nov/2007

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues