Today I want to discuss not only risk but also the usefulness of the science blogosphere. When casting about for a blog post topic (and trying hard to focus on studying for the UM EHS Doctoral Qualifying Exam next week!) I found a very interesting post about risk literacy on Everyday Einstein that describes an interesting [...]
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In an effort to further expand the international presence of the U-M Risk Science Center, I’ve taken it upon myself to spend the next four months in Sweden to personally research a question that has plagued humanity for generations: exactly what is the health risk associated with a diet composed completely of Swedish pancakes? Of [...]
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The annual competition for Risk Science Fellowships provides summer stipend support for students from the School of Public Health (SPH). UMRSC fellowships enhance education and training in the risk sciences and prepare public health students to pursue careers in the field of risk analysis. These awards are made possible through generous support to the Risk [...]
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Richard Rood is a professor at the University of Michigan’s College of Engineering and faculty within Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences. He also writes for Wunderground.com, where this article was originally posted. The U.S. has just experienced an intense heat event with many records falling in the eastern half of the U.S. Here is Chris [...]
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The annual competition for Risk Science Fellowships provides summer stipend support for students from the School of Public Health (SPH). UMRSC fellowships enhance education and training in the risk sciences and prepare public health students to pursue careers in the field of risk analysis. These awards are made possible through generous support to the Risk [...]
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Last Monday, stories about a new study linking red meat consumption to death began popping up all over the internet. As much as this seems frightening to those of us who are prone to enjoying a nice bowl of chili con carne or cheeseburger every now and then, the attention this study has garnered among [...]
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This article is cross -posted from Mind the Science Gap. Under the guidance of the Risk Science Center’s director Andrew Maynard, for ten weeks between January and April 2012, Ten Masters of Public Health students from the University of Michigan will post weekly articles, translating complex sciences into accessible science communication for a broad audience. [...]
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This post is a guest post by Sona Makker. Sona works with the Center for Genetics and Society, a nonprofit information and public affairs organization working to encourage responsible uses and effective societal governance of the new human genetic and reproductive technologies. She graduated with highest honors from UC Berkeley and intends to pursue a J.D. [...]
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This article is cross -posted from Mind the Science Gap. Under the guidance of the Risk Science Center’s director Andrew Maynard, for ten weeks between January and April 2012, Ten Masters of Public Health students from the University of Michigan will post weekly articles, translating complex sciences into accessible science communication for a broad audience. [...]
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A guest blog by RHReality Check and Huffington Post writer Soraya Chemaly. Soraya Chemaly writes about gender and culture for The Huffington Post, RHReality Check, The Feminist Wire, BitchFlicks, Fem2.0 and Alternet among other online media. This article was originally posted at RH Reality Check What happens when women, like men, can be parents without bearing [...]
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This article is Cross Posted from Mind the Science Gap. Under the guidance of the Risk Science Center’s director Andrew Maynard, for ten weeks between January and April 2012, Ten Masters of Public Health students from the University of Michigan will post weekly articles, translating complex sciences into accessible science communication for a broad audience. [...]
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This article is Cross Posted from Mind the Science Gap. Under the guidance of the Risk Science Center’s director Andrew Maynard, for ten weeks between January and April 2012, Ten Masters of Public Health students from the University of Michigan will post weekly articles, translating complex sciences into accessible science communication for a broad audience. [...]
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This article is Cross Posted from Mind the Science Gap. Under the guidance of the Risk Science Center’s director Andrew Maynard, for ten weeks between January and April 2012, Ten Masters of Public Health students from the University of Michigan will post weekly articles, translating complex sciences into accessible science communication for a broad audience. [...]
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This article is Cross Posted from Mind the Science Gap. Under the guidance of the Risk Science Center’s director Andrew Maynard, for ten weeks between January and April 2012, Ten Masters of Public Health students from the University of Michigan will post weekly articles, translating complex sciences into accessible science communication for a broad audience. [...]
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This article is Cross Posted from Mind the Science Gap. Under the guidance of the Risk Science Center’s director Andrew Maynard, for ten weeks between January and April 2012, Ten Masters of Public Health students from the University of Michigan will post weekly articles, translating complex sciences into accessible science communication for a broad audience. [...]
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This article is Cross Posted from Mind the Science Gap. Under the guidance of the Risk Science Center’s director Andrew Maynard, for ten weeks between January and April 2012, Ten Masters of Public Health students from the University of Michigan will post weekly articles, translating complex sciences into accessible science communication for a broad audience. [...]
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The controversy over adverse health effects from wind turbine installations is an interesting one: both sides of the debate present compelling scientific evidence in favor of their particular perspective on the issue. A recent entry on the New York Times’ Green blog describes metastudies carried out by the state EPA branches of Massachusetts and Oregon, [...]
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The following post is by Christine Greene, one of our 2011 Risk Science Fellows, Christine has an MPH and is a Doctoral Pre-candidate in the Department of Environmental Health Science. You can read the abstract of her research project here. Most people have not heard of Acinetobacter baumannii. A. baumannii is an emerging nosocomial pathogen [...]
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Scientific Triumph Meets Political Nightmare: H5N1 Raises Issues of Fear and Free Speech
by Lindsay Ward on January 10, 2012
As 2011 drew to a close, controversy was brewing in the offices of some of the most prominent scientific journals in the field: both Science and Nature received manuscripts in the last quarter of the year describing research on the highly-pathogenic influenza virus A subtype H5N1. This virus is historically very highly lethal, but barely transmitted [...]
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