My ScienceSeeker editor’s picks for this week
- Finally, an effective way to explain absolute vs relative risk to absolutely anyone in 5 tweets: Explaining Risk: Know Your Aristotle by Trisha Greenhalgh at PLoS Medicine’s Speaking of Medicine
(spoiler: use a bad guy)
- This post will change the way you think about Michael Phelps: Why Are Olympic Medals Gold, Silver, and Bronze by Lee Bishop at Science Minus Details
- In a new series on the molecules that make biology interesting (think ‘Molecule of the Month’) Eric Sawyer at Bio 2.0 discusses a class of transcription factors that look slick, follow their own weird rules, and cunningly manipulate the DNA of other organisms: Molecular Zoo: The TALE’s Tale
