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Media Coverage Of Autism Differs Dramatically
This disconnect between the scientific community and the popular media is starkly laid out in a study published in the February issue of Nature Reviews Neuroscience by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The researchers found that while 41 percent of research funding and published scientific papers on autism dealt with brain and behavior research, only 11 percent of newspaper stories in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada dealt with those issues. Instead, 48 percent of the media coverage dealt with environmental causes of autism, particularly the childhood MMR vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella that was once linked with autism in a widely refuted study. Only 13 percent of published research was about environmental triggers of autism. "What was very interesting is that media frequently reported being very skeptical of the MMR evidence, as was scientific literature," said Judy Illes, PhD, associate professor of pediatrics and senior author of the paper.
Bucks company has the write stuff
So you have a deadline coming up on that big company report. Youre running out of time. To make things worse, you dont know the difference between theyre, there and their. Well, youre not alone in the business world. And theres help. The National Writing Commission, in a 2004 survey, found that businesses spend $3 billion a year to improve employee writing skills. Said one survey respondent: Writing skills are fundamental in business. Its increasingly important to be able to convey content in a tight, logical, direct manner, particularly in a fast-paced technology environment. Still, the employers who were surveyed complained about poor grammar, spelling and sentence structure, along with long-winded writing filled with technical jargon or worse, abbreviations better used in e-mail messages.
Top names attend script writing guru's seminar
As he spoke with confidence and passion about his craft, Hollywood script writing guru Syd Field enthralled the high-profile crowd of Indian cinema through his words of wisdom. Invited to India by UTV Motion Pictures, Field, who is delivering a two-day long seminar on the nuances of screen writing, had the sharpest brains of Indian cinema present to hear him talk about the craft of what forms the basis of every film -- the screenplay.
Among those present at his workshop included film-makers Kamal Haasan, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, Kamlesh Pandey, Sanjay Gadhvi, Ramesh Sippy, Raju Hirani, Sanjay Gupta, Farhan Akhtar, Ritesh Sidwani, Shashanka Ghosh, Govind Nihalani, Anees Bazmee, theatre personality Rahul Da Cunha, actors Shabana Azmi, Atul Kulkarni, Soni Razdan, Saurabh Shukla and Yana Gupta.
Opinions: Oddities & Katie-o-Syncrasies: When will the liberal arts get some street cred?
I got up early, wore my adult-ish earrings, pulled my hair back into a low, grown-up pony tail. I wore nice shoes, wide-legged black pants and a button down shirt. As soon as my class got out at 12:50, which by the way is the most inconvenient class time this school has ever scheduled, I rushed to the Liberal Arts Career Fair — missing lunch one day was just the small price I was willing to pay for landing the internship that would begin my dazzling career. .
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