Double X Science - It's In Your Genes

Search Results for: label/Emily Finke

  • Biology Explainer: The big 4 building blocks of life–carbohydrates, fats, proteins, and nucleic acids

    …molecules themselves break down into a surprisingly small number of building blocks. The proteins that make up all of the living things on this planet and ensure their appropriate structure and smooth function consist of only 20 different kinds of building blocks. Nucleic acids, specifically DNA, are even more basic: only four different kinds of molecules provide the materials to build the countless different genetic codes that translate into all…

    Authored by on June 8, 2012

  • Double X Science panel at GeekGirlCon 2012

    Double X Science is without discussing who it is. After a review of who all the people on that particular slide are and what they have to do with Double X Science, three questions were asked by the moderator: In November of 2011, Emily founded Double X Science, Emily what was your motivation in founding the site and what was then and is now your vision for it? As mentioned, we have content from editors, other sites and contributors. Ray was the…

    Authored by on August 14, 2012

  • Friday Roundup: Obese babies, cancer vaccine, human hair fonts, and the grandeur of a dead tree

    It’s Friday! Links to information for you to share with family, friends, children, and total strangers: Babies on obesity path? Well, it’s questionable. Study says that babies who hit two growth markers before age 2 have increased risk of obesity. But only 12% of the 45,000 infants in the study who did hit the mark were obese by age 5. Two of my children have always been off the charts for growth. They are both quite slender. Resea…

    Authored by on November 11, 2011

  • After Newtown missteps, journalists get guidelines

    …almost twice as likely to say that they don’t want to live or work near a person with mental illness if they read an article about a person with mental illness involved in a mass shooting, according to a study published March 20 in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Interestingly, this tendency is the same even if the article avoids any mention of mental illness. This may be because this link between violence and mental illness is deeply engrain…

    Authored by on March 27, 2013

  • Autism and the DSM-5

    …ial social aspect of this change, and the one thing that might, when it comes to autism, elevate the DSM-5 above the level of doorstop. [Image credit: Dave Bullock, UK, via Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 generic license.]…

    Authored by on April 23, 2013

  • The degendering effect of social networks and why that might be OK

    [Ed. note: I (Emily) just attended the National Association of Science Writers annual conference in Raleigh, NC, where I moderated a session on managing the information deluge that can overwhelm those of us who deeply engage in social media. During the session, Tinker Ready noted the all-woman makeup of our panel and asked about the role of social media in helping women in science. She also asked me a few questions after the session. Below is a…

    Authored by on November 5, 2012

  • Science is For Everyone, Including (Gasp!) Moms

    Looking through magazines aimed specifically at women (including most parenting magazines), you might be forgiven for thinking that women have no interest in science or technology. I’m not the demographic these publications are aimed at, of course: I’m not even a parent, much less a woman. Of course there are plenty of magazines consumed by women and men alike, though I can also think of some that are far too guy-focused. That’s not what this…

    Authored by on November 23, 2011

  • About that 1 in 50 autism number

    Not all numbers are created equal. by Emily Willingham         The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released new figures for autism prevalence in the United States. They now give a prevalence of 1 in 50, but this story, like most autism-related stories, goes deeper than the numbers. First, this prevalence estimate doesn’t focus only on 8-year-olds, the population used for deriving the 1 in 88 number reported in 2012….

    Authored by on April 29, 2013

  • This is good, and I am happy.

    …ality-check voice in my head: “What does it matter? They’re just one of billions. Just blips in the time course of humanity. They are nothing. You are nothing. We are all just nothing, living only a few seconds or 100 years for no rhyme or reason, here one minute and gone the next. What does it matter? We all end up nothing in the end.” It’s a long-winded voice and can go on like that for hours. It’s hard to tell fro…

    Authored by on May 10, 2013

  • Wordless Wednesday: The faces of the women and men in science, DXS edition

    Meet Chris Gunter, science education editor for Double X Science! We (and you) are lucky to have her!Read more about Chris on our About Us page. Some of us got to meet at a conference for online science writers.From left, DXS Physics Editor Matthew Francis, Biology Editor Jeanne Garbarino,and Managing Editor Emily Willingham. And a meme of that conference was #youvebeenframed. In this case, Emily Willingham was, with th…

    Authored by on January 25, 2012

Page 1 of 712345...Last »