My small attempt to celebrate science and to make it interesting and fun by giving jargon, confusion and elitism a solid beating with the stick of good writing.
Ed lives in London and works at Cancer Research UK. This blog is his attempt to make science interesting to everyone by beating jargon, confusion and elitism with the stick of good writing. Almost all posts will be proper articles that discuss peer-reviewed research, written from the original papers. Ed is an award-winning science writer and has freelanced for Nature, New Scientist and the Economist. He finds writing about himself in the third person strange and unsettling.
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April 29, 2008
Category: Carnivals
A quick heads-up on some new carnivals. Go sustain your scientific hunger at: Cognitive Daily, hosting the new Encephalon Go on. The power of Munger compels you. The Conservation Report, with the new Carnival of the Green Doc...
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Category: Neuroscience
A challenging task designed to improve working memory also boosts fluid intelligence, even among underachievers.
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April 28, 2008
Category: Bacteria
Epulopiscium has over 40,000 genome copies, giving it many advantages enjoyed by eukaryotic cells, including large size.
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April 25, 2008
Category: Viruses
A relative of smallpox enters cells and hides from the immune system with a molecular disguise
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April 24, 2008
Category: Education
Students fail to apply mathematical knowledge learned from real-world examples like speeding trains and bags of marbles
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April 23, 2008
Category: Climate change
The wood-boring mountain pine beetle is responsible for releasing millions of tonnes of carbon from Canadian forests.
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April 21, 2008
Category: Neuroscience
Your brain uses memories of a speaker's face to interpret their speech when they're not around.
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April 18, 2008
Category: Neuroscience
A new study could explain why drugs like Ritalin work well for some people but not others
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April 16, 2008
Category: Viruses
Two new papers reveal the birthplaces, travel plans and graveyards of new strains of H3N2 influenza.
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April 14, 2008
Category: Economics
Hormones like testosterone and cortisol affect behaviour and success of financial traders, and even movements of markets
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