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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.

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Ed.jpgEd 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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August 31, 2008

Berry Go Round #8

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:...

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August 30, 2008

Too few genes to survive - the bacterium with the world's smallest genome

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...

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August 29, 2008

Send me your botanical posts

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...

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August 28, 2008

Holy haemorrhage Batman! Wind turbines burst bat lungs

Category: Bats

Wind turbines kill bats by creating low-pressure zones that explosively decompress the air in their lungs.

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I'll see some of you on Saturday

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...

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August 27, 2008

Children learn to share by age 7-8

Category: Altruism

Seven-year-old children will share sweets with others, but three-year-olds aren't so generous

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August 26, 2008

Selfless monkeys find personal reward in helping others

Category: Altruism

Could capuchin monkeys get a feel-good factor from helping out other capuchins?

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August 25, 2008

Google Earth shows that cow and deer herds align like compass needles

Category: Animal behaviour

Cow and deer herds align in the same direction because they sense the earth's magnetic fields

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August 24, 2008

Reader survey - would you buy a Not Exactly Rocket Science book?

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...

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August 22, 2008

Mind your words - how stereotypes affect female performance at maths

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...

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