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Three European journalists--Yves Sciama (France), Birgit Voigt (Switzerland), and Eva Wolfangel (Germany)--talk with SWINY co-chair David Levine about the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in their countries. Yves Sciama, a French freelance science journalist and writer, covers life and environmental sciences. His work has appeared in Science et Vie, Le Monde, and other major French-language media, as well as in English in Science. He does documentary writing, website designing, book-writing, and has won several prizes and fellowships, including a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT in 2014. He is the current president of AJSPI, the French association of science journalists, and was co-chair of the Program Committee of the 2019 World Conference of Science Journalists. Birgit Voigt lives in Zurich. She has been a journalist at NZZ am Sonntag for almost 20 years. Her main focus is on the health sector including the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. During the pandemic she has covered extensively the procurement of vaccines through Swiss authorities. Birgit started in journalism in the business editorial department of the “Basler Zeitung.” From 1997 to 1999, she was head of the business section of the daily paper “Tages-Anzeiger,” followed by the nine-month Knight fellowship at Stanford University in California and correspondent work from California for Cash Publications. Eva Wolfangel, a German science journalist, was named European Science Writer of the Year by the Association of British Science Writers in 2018. As a speaker and moderator, she focuses on future technologies such as artificial intelligence and virtual reality, computer science, data journalism, interaction between digital and real worlds, and space travel. She writes for major magazines and newspapers in Germany and Switzerland, including ZEIT, Geo, Der Spiegel, and NZZ, and produces radio features. From 2019/2020 she was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.
May 4, 2021: The Slow Rollout of COVID-19 Vaccines in Europe: The View from 3 European Journalists
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Josh Fischman, senior editor at Scientific American magazine, talks with SWINY co-chair David Levine about covering COVID-19 at the magazine, the recently launched COVID Quickly podcast, and offers tips to freelance writers for pitching to Scientific American editors.
April 29, 2021: A Virtual Conversation with Josh Fischman, Senior Editor, Scientific American
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Liz Heinecke, AKA the Kitchen Pantry Scientist, talks with SWINY co-chair David Levine about her book Radiant: The Dancer, The Scientist, and a Friendship Forged in Light. Radiant tells the story of the extraordinary friendship between Marie Curie, a Nobel Prize–winning female scientist, and Loie Fuller, an American performance artist who became a living symbol of the Art Nouveau movement with her hypnotic dances and stunning theatrical effects.
April 22, 2021: A Virtual Conversation with Liz Heinecke, Author of Radiant
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Dr. Helen E. Fisher, biological anthropologist and senior research fellow at the Kinsey Institute, joins us for a second conversation about dating and partnerships in the era of COVID-19. She talks with SWINY co-chair David Levine about how the pandemic has changed dating for the better, the pros and cons of virtual dating, best practices for writing a profile for a dating site, and more.
April 14, 2021: A Virtual Conversation with Dr. Helen Fisher on Dating during the Pandemic, Part II
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Avital Havusha, vice president for programs at the New York State Health Foundation, talks with SWINY co-chair David Levine about food scarcity in New York State during the COVID-19 pandemic.
March 31, 2021: A Virtual Conversation with Avital Havusha, New York State Health Foundation
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Dr. John Moore, professor of microbiology and immunology at Weill Cornell Medicine, talks with SWINY co-chair David Levine about genetic variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the optimal use of different COVID-19 vaccines for these variants. Further reading: Approaches for Optimal Use of Different COVID-19 Vaccines: Issues of Viral Variants and Vaccine Efficacy: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2777390 (by John P. Moore, PhD) Don't be Seduced: Two Shots Are Better Than One: https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/dont-be-seduced-two-shots-are-better-one (by Céline Gounder, John P. Moore and Luciana Borio) SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern (CDC): https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/variant-surveillance/variant-info.html
March 24, 2021: COVID-19 Vaccines and Variants: A Virtual Conversation with Dr. John Moore
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Sherry Turkle, MIT psychologist and bestselling author of Reclaiming Conversation and Alone Together, talks with SWINY co-chair David Levine about her new memoir, The Empathy Diaries (Penguin Press, March 2, 2021), in which she reflects on her coming-of-age and path-blazing career.
March 18, 2021: A Virtual Conversation with Sherry Turkle, Author of The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir
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