Moving Target

I'll be yammering this week. First stop on the yak fest, tomorrow morning, is over in New Haven, where I'll be running the first session of a two-part science writing workshop for science graduate students at Yale. It's my second year at this, so I'm hoping it goes smoothly. We're going to record it and post at least some of it on Yale's Itunes site as a free podcast. I'll let you know when that becomes available. Then I head for Washington DC, where I'll be moderating a discussion Wednesday about synthetic biology. It's part of the Seed/Schering-Plough Science + Society Series, in which scientists bring the latest in their field to government policymakers Drew Endy from MIT will be speaking about the science, and Anne-Marie Mazza from the National Academies will talk about how public policy will need to respond to it. Seed has posted some of the videos ...