Eat chocolate. Lose weight. Yeah, right.
By now you’ve heard the news: people who eat chocolate are thinner than those who don’t. It’s the perfect news story, and one that a lot of outlets ran with — ourselves included — but it’s also the kind of piece that science writer Deborah Blum says can contribute to public cynicism about science and…
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Deborah Blum - Knight Science Journalism Tracker
A “Big Data” Problem Could Be Starving Artists of Revenue
For nearly 100 years, performing rights organizations have tracked the music played on the radio, then the television, and now the internet. Their goal: to figure out who should get paid. These organizations – ASCAP and BMI are the big ones – have traditionally relied on the radio, television, and internet music companies they monitor…
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Eliot Van Buskirk - Evolver.fm
