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Monthly Archives: January 2014

Why are there so many plant species in tropical forests?

29 Wednesday Jan 2014

Posted by sedeer in Conservation, Evolution, Insects, Plants

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biology, density, diversity, forests, fungi, pathogen, plants, Popular science, science, tropical forests

Diversity in Forests Continue reading →

Update on my Beacon project — goal reached!

28 Tuesday Jan 2014

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biology, communicating science, crowd funding, journalism, Kickstarter, Popular science, science, science and society, Science journalism, writing

With a couple of days left to go, we’ve already got more than enough backers to launch my Beacon project! A huge “thank you!” to each of you who contributed, whether by joining the project or spreading the word. Many of my backers came via your Facebook posts and the emails you sent out. Thanks for helping get my first crowd-funding experience off to a great start — I couldn’t have done it without you! And if somebody wants to sign up but hasn’t yet, they still can.

Thanks,
Sedeer

We’re getting closer to a malaria vaccine

24 Friday Jan 2014

Posted by sedeer in Humans, Immunology

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biology, Education, Health, Human, immunity, malaria, mosquito, Popular science, science, Science communication, vaccination, vaccine

Malaria parasite (photo courtesy Wikipedia)Malaria hardly needs an introduction. With over 200 million people infected, it takes the life of an African child every minute. Although we have drugs to help treat the disease, there isn’t an effective vaccine available, partly due to the malaria pathogen’s variability. Now, a research collaboration between labs in the US and Australia has brought a step closer to that goal by figuring out how to produce a vaccine which works against many different strains. Continue reading →

Update on my Beacon project — 8 days to go!

22 Wednesday Jan 2014

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biology, communicating science, crowd funding, journalism, Kickstarter, Popular science, science, science and society, Science journalism, writing

First of all, I’d like to say a big “Thank you!” to everyone who’s already joined my project or shared the link. With your help, we’ve gotten a quarter of the way there in just six days. That’s a great start, but we’ll need to pick up the pace to hit the target on time! Continue reading →

A Rosetta Primer

19 Sunday Jan 2014

Posted by sedeer in Astronomy, Physics

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comet, Education, ESA, European Space Agency, Popular science, rosetta, science, space

You might hear about Rosetta in the news later this week, so I decided to give my readers a head-start with an introduction to the mission and its objectives, as well as an idea of what to expect. Continue reading →

Help support my writing through crowdfunding!

16 Thursday Jan 2014

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biology, communicating science, crowd funding, internet, journalism, publishing, science, science and society, Science communication, Science in Society, Science journalism, society, writing

I’m really excited to announce that I’ve been invited to write at Beacon, an innovative website which crowd-sources funding to support reporting by freelance writers (like me!). The idea is simple. Readers pay $5 a month to fund a writer on Beacon; in exchange, you get access to the writer’s work and every other story by every other writer on Beacon. It’s like Netflix, but for writing. I think it’s a great idea, and I’m really excited to be a part of it, but I need your help to make it happen. Continue reading →

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