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Let’s say you have a new white paper or book coming out and you want to expand the audience for it beyond your usual people. Even though people keep saying podcasts are dying, you’ve done a

The Roman poet Martial, master of the poetic form known as the epigram, once had a hater named Velox. Martial told him: “You complain, Velox, that I write long epigrams. You yourself write nothing. Yours are

We scorn “headline science” because of what it says on its tin: The headline comes before the science. That’s just wrong, we think — but not just wrong: It’s venal, anti-science, and sometimes even fraudulent. Sometimes,

ChatGPT from OpenAI debuted more than a month ago, and you’re probably already sick of it, and that’s just wrong, because it can really help what so many public experts struggle with: getting started with writing.

I keep thinking about “Overlooked Problems,” a column written this spring by an occasional Substack writer about whom I know nothing except that they are a scientist doing research into organ generation and regeneration. The column

US readers: Before heading into Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow, you might want to read science writer Julia Belluz’s new piece on what science has discovered doesn’t cause obesity. In a word: You. Just don’t expect Uncle Chester