Friday morning on The Tennessee Star Report, host Leahy welcomed the original all-star panelist Crom Carmichael for another edition of Crom’s Crommentary.
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Science communicators once again had their hands full in 2021. Between two and three million research articles were published this year, announcing discoveries from the microscopic to the cosmic and from the (relatively) mundane to the controversial. The gigantic elephant in the room – COVID-19 – also continued to hang around, killing millions while dishonest actors manufactured misinformation galore.
Separating science from pseudoscience, hype from reality, and truth from fiction, all while reporting honestly and coherently, can be a struggle. But each year, writers at a range of websites prove they are up to the task. At RealClearScience, we honor them in our annual listing of the top websites for science.
Honorable Mentions:
ScienceNews has provided dependable science journalism since 1921.
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Radnor lake state park has just announced its installation of colorblind correcting viewfinders. The state park announced on their FaceBook Thursday about their new additions. The viewfinders cost the Tennessee Department of Tourism $3,000 but the special lenses that correct colorblindness were donated by EnChroma.Â
EnChroma is also the company that created the colorblind corrective glasses and sunglasses. With technology designed by UC Berkley mathematician and Ph.D. Scientist, the company has received many five-star ‘life-changing reviews.Â
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The Ohio Department of Natural Resources has recommended 10 state projects for more than $3.5 million in grant funding,the department announced last week.Â
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A bill recently introduced to the Michigan Senate could effectively remove the ban on deer baiting.
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The Michigan House Ways and Means Committee voted unanimously to support a package this week that would reinstate the youth fishing license in Michigan.
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Chronic wasting disease has been found in three white-tailed deer from a Newaygo County deer farm, making it the fifth farm in Michigan to have been found carrying the disease.
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New research strengthens the case that people used the chocolate ingredient cacao in South America 5,400 years ago, underscoring the seed’s radical transformation into today’s Twix bars and M&M candies. Tests indicate traces of cacao on artifacts from an archaeological site in Ecuador, according to a study published Monday. That’s…
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