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Hats off to Quanta Magazine for their consistently excellent science reporting. They manage to convey why this is interesting without sensationalizing "zomg ne
by jlebar 10y ago
Hats off to Quanta Magazine for their consistently excellent science reporting. They manage to convey why this is interesting without sensationalizing "zomg new force".
- ISL 10y agoIndeed. They've done a great job on so many articles. The technically-trained reporter with whom I chatted regarding an article on my field appeared to have dedicated at least a month to developing a strong understanding of the problems at hand. Most short-form science reporters seem to at most a couple of days on a story.
- semi-extrinsic 10y agoThis was very well written indeed. From the author's biography, she has "co-authored several academic papers in nonlinear optics". I can certainly understand how writers who lack similar years of physics background and experience in reading and writing papers would do a significantly worse job of describing the results of a new study.
- corndoge 10y agoI don't know. A couple paragraphs betrayed minimal understanding of the topic at hand and there were various grammatical errors...it feels more like relatively well-written clickbait.
- mindcrime 10y agoFor FSM's sake, is there anything that somebody around here won't refer to as "clickbait"? HN should implement an auto-filter to reject any comment containing the term.
- sjcsjc 10y ago"... various grammatical errors ..." Please expand on this. I found "comprised of"[0] and "to actually measure"[1]. Cardinal grammatical sins indeed. IMHO, this article had an unusually high standard of grammar by today's standards. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprised_of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprised_of [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_infinitive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_infinitive
- raverbashing 10y agoI think you're right about 0, 1 even your link agrees is not really a problem
- sjcsjc 10y agoHmm. My cardinal sins statement was sarcasm. On reflection, that may be unclear.
- sevenless 10y agoI love how Quanta's writers manage to bring incredibly abstruse science to about the cusp of understanding for the layman. It's particularly noticeable considering how dumbed-down so much science writing for newspapers and magazines like New Scientist has become. Another particularly good example: https://www.quantamagazine.org/20130917-a-jewel-at-the-heart-of-quantum-physics/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/20130917-a-jewel-at-the-heart...
- sevenless 10y agoNatalie Wolchover deserves credit for both these articles, I should say.