Tangled Bank #73 at Lab Cat

Check out this fortnight’s Tangled Bank: the Snowy Valentine edition.

Tags: science, evolution, Tangled Bank, science writing, medical writing, natural history, organisms, Lab Cat

“I’m a celebrity—get me the facts!”

An amusing article from spiked-online.com (a British somewhat contrarian Marxist-libertarian Web site—yes, that’s rather contradictory) about Sense about Science’s programme to aid celebrities before they endorse dubious causes or repeat dubious assertions.

Clear Language and Design

The Clear Language and Design, or CLAD, Web site is a plain language resource and the gateway to a plain-language editing service. Plain language provides clear, simple language that makes technical content or Web sites accessible to the average reader. It’s an important goal.

The Web site includes a very useful readability evaluation tool.

The consultants on the CLAD team contribute most of their fees to support Toronto’s East End Literacy project.