news media - Talk Science To Me https://www.talksciencetome.com When science has a story Thu, 27 Apr 2023 18:03:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://www.talksciencetome.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/cropped-tsm-logo-512-32x32.png news media - Talk Science To Me https://www.talksciencetome.com 32 32 159279938 Do you accept the quest? – Reading and understanding a science paper https://www.talksciencetome.com/2014/06/29/reading-and-understanding-a-science-paper/ Sun, 29 Jun 2014 17:00:41 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=1386 Science papers—the everyday tales of slaying research dragons and finding buried treasures. Not just for stereotyped nerds in white coats, or wild-haired Einstein lookalikes. You can read them too. With the rise in open access publishing, more are available to lay readers outside academia’s ivory towers. But what are they all about? And why would… Read More »Do you accept the quest? – Reading and understanding a science paper

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]]> 1386 Evaluating a news source https://www.talksciencetome.com/2013/07/19/evaluating-a-news-source/ Fri, 19 Jul 2013 16:50:14 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=828 Most people seem to want news they can trust, and most people I know think that’s quite hard to find. There are many, many reasons for this, but I’m going to try (notwithstanding the 8,000-word first draft of this piece) to only talk about the ones that are most helpful if you’re trying to decide… Read More »Evaluating a news source

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