Catching my eye this week…

From The Daily Scan, ENCODE Goes to Court shows the ripple effect of the project’s recent findings. Did flawed communication of complicated new science lead to distortions in the media and now the legal system as well? Yikes!  How can scientists work to ensure that the public – journalists and lawyers in particular – have  a clear understanding of what new findings mean for all of us?

The NY Times Bits blog covered the new app updates rolled out by Twitter this week.

Another of their blogs, Well, posted a story about the difficulties in effective pain treatment for cancer patients.

And for some Friday fun…The 2012 Ig Nobel Prizes, celebrating “achievements that first make people laugh, then make them think”, were awarded this week. Visit Improbable Research to learn about this year’s winners (along with pony tails, government reports, chimpanzee bottoms and salmon brains).