“Math and graphs are necessary to make a story like this interesting.” “He doesn’t provide any drawings or graphs, which would have appealed to and been understood by many readers.” “He tries to describe graphs without using any pictures at all … why? I myself would also have liked some representation of the mathematics, […]
Month: November 2011
Last Sunday, the day before the world’s population hit 7 billion, I went to a scientific meeting on the future of contraception. I had expected to hear, and did hear, about a slew of labs trying to develop a birth control pill for men. What I did not expect: one pill was shown to work in […]
As a journalist, I tend to be wary of people trying to assign me stories if they’re not an editor, and sometimes even then. Public relations types try to do it all the time. They send press releases with pre-packaged quotations for the deadline-driven writer or call up with some brilliant story idea […]
