Closing Ceremony and Plenary: The Hazard Zone: Science Journalists Tackle Natural Disasters
The panelists in this late-breaking plenary, organized to address the recent spate of natural disasters, will discuss the challenges of covering earthquakes, hurricanes, wildfires, and... Read More
Why the Wafflers Are Wrong: Addressing Climate Change Is Urgent—and a Bargain
In 2017, more than 80 percent of the world’s energy supply continues to come from burning coal, oil and natural gas, with complete release of... Read More
Opening Ceremony
Opening remarks by: Cristine Russell and Ron Winslow, co-chairs, WCSJ2017 Organizing Committee Curtis Brainard, president, World Federation of Science Journalists Enrique Bustamante Martinez, executive director,... Read More
“One Test to Rule Them All”: Joe DeRisi in Conversation with Carl Zimmer
Joe DeRisi never rests in his pursuit of new technologies for finding and fighting mystery diseases. As a teen in the 1980s, DeRisi watched the... Read More
Rewriting the Code of Life
Not since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors that they warned the world against its use. Not, that is, until the... Read More
Climate Change Primer: Responding to Global Impacts of Human Activity
California leads the United States in responding to global climate change as it tries to create a clean-energy economy, ameliorate the effects of global change... Read More
A Delicate Balance: Immunity in Health, Disease and Medicine
From moment to moment, our immune system maintains a remarkable state of equilibrium, a tightrope act that is vital to our survival. On the one... Read More
Book It: A Conversation Among Authors Mary Roach, Steve Silberman and Ed Yong
Two internationally known book authors—Steve Silberman, author of Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, and Ed Yong, author of I Contain... Read More
Africa: The Cradle of Mathematical Sciences
In his address, Thierry Zomahoun will emphasize that history matters. Storytelling sets the tone for global perceptions of reality, which in turn influence the behavior... Read More
Science Journalism, Authoritarian Regimes, and Pseudoscience
Pseudoscience deceives millions of people every day. Although scientists and journalists try to expose baseless assertions, governments around the world often will make decisions based... Read More