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. Ed is an award-winning freelance science writer. He finds writing about himself in the third person strange and unsettling.
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LOLbachia
August 31, 2008
Category: Carnivals
Welcome to the eighth edition of Berry Go Round, the carnival that celebrates the blogosphere's coverage of all things botanical. I'm not going to try and top Bora's magnificent LOLPlant effort, so without further ado, here's the good stuff:...
Posted by Ed Yong at 12:00 PM • 2 Comments •
August 30, 2008
Category: Bacteria
The complex cells that make up plants and animals only survive today because their ancestors formed partnerships with bacteria. In a previous post, I wrote about a microbe called Hatena, which provides us with a snapshot of what the...
Posted by Ed Yong at 10:38 AM • 6 Comments •
August 29, 2008
Category: Carnivals
Quick note: I'm hosting the plant carnival Berry Go Round this month, and you have 2 days to send me any interesting posts you've written or found. I'll stick something up on Sunday. Cheers, Ed...
Posted by Ed Yong at 1:17 PM • 0 Comments •
August 28, 2008
Category: Bats
Wind turbines kill bats by creating low-pressure zones that explosively decompress the air in their lungs.
Posted by Ed Yong at 8:38 AM • 16 Comments •
Category: Personal
Hey folks, To those of you who are going to the London Science Blogging conference on Saturday, I'll see you there. I'll be at the morning sessions and the lunch break but will probably have to leave early so if...
Posted by Ed Yong at 8:28 AM • 3 Comments •
August 27, 2008
Category: Altruism
Seven-year-old children will share sweets with others, but three-year-olds aren't so generous
Posted by Ed Yong at 1:00 PM • 5 Comments •
August 26, 2008
Category: Altruism
Could capuchin monkeys get a feel-good factor from helping out other capuchins?
Posted by Ed Yong at 10:00 AM • 5 Comments •
August 25, 2008
Category: Animal behaviour
Cow and deer herds align in the same direction because they sense the earth's magnetic fields
Posted by Ed Yong at 5:00 PM • 21 Comments •
August 24, 2008
Category: Personal
Folks, I'm toying with the idea of publishing a book that compiles the best of Not Exactly Rocket Science from the last year. I'll select about 60 or so of my favourite pieces from 2008 and transfer them from code...
Posted by Ed Yong at 12:00 PM • 24 Comments •
August 22, 2008
Category: Social science
On 14 January 2005, Lawrence Summers (right), president of Harvard University spoke of the reasons behind the disproportionate lack of women in top-end science and engineering jobs. Avoiding suggestions of discrimination, he offered two explanations - unwillingness to commit...
Posted by Ed Yong at 10:00 AM • 7 Comments •
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