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Ed Yong is an award-winning science writer based in London. Not Exactly Rocket Science is his attempt to make the latest scientific discoveries interesting to everyone by beating jargon, confusion and elitism with the stick of good writing. He finds writing about himself in the third person strange and unsettling.
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November 30, 2008
Category: Fish
Following last week's parrotfish, here's another underwater snap taken at the Whitsunday Islands. This is a bluespot stingray, and it was later joined by a second individual. More pics and a video beneath the fold......
Posted by Ed Yong at 8:00 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 29, 2008
Category: Conservation
As Charles Darwin learned several centuries ago, islands are havens for evolution. Newcomers to these isolated worlds find themselves unshackled from the predators that dogged them on the mainland. They celebrate their freedom by diversifying into a great variety...
Posted by Ed Yong at 10:00 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 28, 2008
Category: Personal
For some reason, I've only just discovered the navel-gazing blogger meme that started at Nature Network a few weeks ago. But I've written up a shed-load of science this week and I'm feeling lazy and introspective. So better late than...
Posted by Ed Yong at 10:32 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 27, 2008
Category: Perception
You can control the severity of pain and swelling in an aching hand by making it seem larger or smaller.
Posted by Ed Yong at 8:30 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 26, 2008
Category: Evolution
The earliest fossil turtle ever discovered only had half a shell covering its underside.
Posted by Ed Yong at 1:55 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Psychology
Throughout our language, the vocabulary of physical cleanliness is also used to describe moral cleanliness. We describe saints as pure and thieves as dirty; consciences can be clean and sins can be washed away. But more and more, psychological studies...
Posted by Ed Yong at 7:30 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 25, 2008
Category: Bacteria
Fossil embryos were formed by bacteria, growing over dead cells and replacing their organic matter with minerals
Posted by Ed Yong at 7:30 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 24, 2008
Category: Neuroscience
An inherited inability to recognise faces is caused by faulty white matter tracts linking face-processing brain regions
Posted by Ed Yong at 8:30 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 22, 2008
Category: Fish
Buying an underwater case for my digital camera was an excellent decision. This shot was taken at Pickford Reef in the Whitsunday Islands....
Posted by Ed Yong at 12:54 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 21, 2008
Category: Parasites
The dinoflagellate algae that cause harmful red tides are normally kept on a leash by parasites.
Posted by Ed Yong at 8:30 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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