{"id":29369,"date":"2010-10-17T08:10:50","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T08:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/revenge-of-the-whippersnappers-ed-yong-wins-national-academies-communication-award-the-loom\/"},"modified":"2010-10-17T08:10:50","modified_gmt":"2010-10-17T08:10:50","slug":"revenge-of-the-whippersnappers-ed-yong-wins-national-academies-communication-award-the-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/revenge-of-the-whippersnappers-ed-yong-wins-national-academies-communication-award-the-loom.php","title":{"rendered":"Revenge of the whippersnappers: Ed Yong wins National Academies Communication Award | The Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hearty congratulations to Ed Yong, fellow <em>Discover<\/em> blogger, for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/notrocketscience\/2010\/10\/14\/i%E2%80%99d-like-to-thank-the-academies\/\">winning this year&rsquo;s online National Academies Communication Award<\/a>. I serve as a judge for the awards, so I told the NAS folks I would have to sit this particular vote out this year, seeing that a fellow member of the <em>Discover<\/em> hivemind was in the running. From the sidelines, I was very pleased to see him win. Ed&rsquo;s torrent of well-researched blog posts on natural history give the lie (again) that blogging isn&rsquo;t serious journalism.<\/p><p>Congratulations as well to Richard Holmes for his wonderful book, Age of Wonder, Charles Duhigg for his deep exploration of our water woes, and Carole and Richard Rifkind, co-producers and co-directors of the show, &ldquo;Naturally Obsessed: The Making of a Scientist.&rdquo;<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www8.nationalacademies.org\/onpinews\/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=10142010\">Full details at NAS.<\/a><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/BHuNBqGpHUZzI73ZliH8eLKDYIo\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/75c3f_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/BHuNBqGpHUZzI73ZliH8eLKDYIo\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/75c3f_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/75c3f_2J68E9381IM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/75c3f_gyIwgPrRZaI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hearty congratulations to Ed Yong, fellow Discover blogger, for winning this year&rsquo;s online National Academies Communication Award. I serve as a judge for the awards, so I told the NAS folks I would have to sit this particular vote out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/revenge-of-the-whippersnappers-ed-yong-wins-national-academies-communication-award-the-loom.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}