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...book says it's not just the public that's at fault but that scientists need to do better at connecting with society. Doctors get some training about bedside manner. Would it be good to develop a form of that for scientists? I love the bedside-manner analogy. What you have to do is change the culture of science in America at its institutions so this kind of bedside manner is part of the training. I do scientist training for media. First you have to fill their heads up with information they've never considered about what the media...
...combined that with climate models. They found that low-level clouds tend to dissipate as the ocean warms - which means a warmer world could well have less cloud cover. "That would create positive feedback, a reinforcing cycle that continues to warm the climate," says Amy Clement, a climate scientist at the University of Miami and the lead author of the Science study...
...vaccine, and vaccine companies have been gearing up to produce hundreds of millions of doses. Production is already under way, with the Australian drug company CSL this week becoming the first manufacturer to begin testing a vaccine in human subjects. "Things are proceeding well," says Jesse Goodman, the chief scientist and deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...
...pulled out a corned-beef-on-rye sandwich purchased from a Florida deli. Pizza Hut "delivered" a vacuum-sealed pizza to the Mir space station in 2001, and ISS member Peggy Whitson requested a pecan pie in 2002. Tortillas have been on every mission since 1985, when Mexican scientist Rodolfo Neri Vela brought them onboard a space-shuttle mission. In fact, NASA now provides astronauts with their own partially dehydrated tortillas made by the same company that supplies Taco Bell...
...enemy. I never was.' AAFIA SIDDIQUI, a U.S.-trained Pakistani scientist accused of aiding al-Qaeda, addressing the court during a hearing in New York City...