Comments on: Scienceline, The Next Generation http://www.scienceline.org/2007/01/22/about_knight_nextgen/ The Shortest Distance Between You and Science Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:01:23 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Hank Roberts http://www.scienceline.org/2007/01/22/about_knight_nextgen/comment-page-1/#comment-1715 Hank Roberts Sun, 04 May 2008 13:42:26 +0000 http://scienceline.org/2007/01/22/about_knight_nextgen/#comment-1715 Folks, you need to edit your comment threads, there's no point in doing this if you just leave them to fill up with garbage posts by bored kids and people just trying to flog their own blogs by posting them everywhere. If you can cut out the huge amount of chaff from the older threads there are some worth pursuing, like the one on arsenic in chicken feed. Read the responses, think about what's worth keeping, eh? Once you've done that, it may be possible to try to have conversations about science -- and about how to cite sources and know what's supportable from the literature and what's faith-belief-based opinion. Please try. You're supposedly in the business of teaching how to report on science, health, and the environment. You also need to teach how to EDIT in these areas. Folks, you need to edit your comment threads, there’s no point in doing this if you just leave them to fill up with garbage posts by bored kids and people just trying to flog their own blogs by posting them everywhere.

If you can cut out the huge amount of chaff from the older threads there are some worth pursuing, like the one on arsenic in chicken feed. Read the responses, think about what’s worth keeping, eh?

Once you’ve done that, it may be possible to try to have conversations about science — and about how to cite sources and know what’s supportable from the literature and what’s faith-belief-based opinion.

Please try. You’re supposedly in the business of teaching how to report on science, health, and the environment.

You also need to teach how to EDIT in these areas.

]]> By: Shannon http://www.scienceline.org/2007/01/22/about_knight_nextgen/comment-page-1/#comment-1527 Shannon Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:47:46 +0000 http://scienceline.org/2007/01/22/about_knight_nextgen/#comment-1527 Hey!! Love the site!!!! Im on here everyday!!!! (I am such a dork!)♥ Hey!! Love the site!!!! Im on here everyday!!!! (I am such a dork!)♥

]]> By: Meredith Knight http://www.scienceline.org/2007/01/22/about_knight_nextgen/comment-page-1/#comment-651 Meredith Knight Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:49:12 +0000 http://scienceline.org/2007/01/22/about_knight_nextgen/#comment-651 Dear Cheryl, We are so happy you enjoy the site! Scienceline posts new stories on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings. We also send out weekly email messages with our top headlines and summaries of our stories. If you'd like to sign up to receive them, please enter your email in the "subscribe" box on the front page of our website. Thanks very much for your comment and please keep visiting us. Best, Meredith Knight Dear Cheryl,

We are so happy you enjoy the site! Scienceline posts new stories on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings. We also send out weekly email messages with our top headlines and summaries of our stories. If you’d like to sign up to receive them, please enter your email in the “subscribe” box on the front page of our website. Thanks very much for your comment and please keep visiting us.

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]]> By: Cheryl Rusten http://www.scienceline.org/2007/01/22/about_knight_nextgen/comment-page-1/#comment-646 Cheryl Rusten Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:18:22 +0000 http://scienceline.org/2007/01/22/about_knight_nextgen/#comment-646 I'm enjoying this new website as it presents a variety of science information in layperson's terms. I'm wondering, however, if there is a way to either alert your readers when something new is posted, have something on the homepage that notes there is new content, or if there is a set amount of time we can be sure a story will remain posted. At the moment I am checking most every day--looking through all the headings-- and often there is no change from prior days. This gets frustrating! So it would be helpful to know if, say, one could check weekly or twice a week and not miss anything, or if you could take a quick look at the homepage and see "new content in health". Thanks, and thanks for the site. I’m enjoying this new website as it presents a variety of science information in layperson’s terms. I’m wondering, however, if there is a way to either alert your readers when something new is posted, have something on the homepage that notes there is new content, or if there is a set amount of time we can be sure a story will remain posted. At the moment I am checking most every day–looking through all the headings– and often there is no change from prior days. This gets frustrating! So it would be helpful to know if, say, one could check weekly or twice a week and not miss anything, or if you could take a quick look at the homepage and see “new content in health”. Thanks, and thanks for the site.

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