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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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Recent Posts

• Portable brain activity-recorder shows that sloths aren’t all that sleepy
• Orchid lures in pollinating wasps with promise of fresh meat
• How Big Brother keeps us honest
• Rats succumb to peer pressure too
• March of the locusts - individuals start moving to avoid cannibals
• Cuckoos mimic hawks to fool small birds
• Fungi transform depleted uranium into chemically stable minerals
• Making sense of obesity genes
• Fat cell number is set in childhood and stays constant in adulthood
• Dogs and devils - the rise of the contagious cancers

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• February 2008

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Science blogs

• A Somewhat Old, But Capricious Handbag
• Aetiology
• Archaeozoology
• Babel's Dawn
• Bad Science
• Cancer Research UK Science Update Blog
• Cognitive Daily
• Deep Sea News
• Denialism
• Effect Measure
• End of the Pier
• Enigmania
• Ethical Palaeontologist
• Evolving Thoughts
• Guerilla Science
• Laelaps
• Living the Scientific Life
• Loom
• Malaria, Bedbugs, Sea Lice and Sunsets
• Mind the Gap
• Mouse Trap
• Neurologica
• Neurophilosophy
• Neuroscientifically Challenged
• New Scientist Short Sharp Science
• Null Hypothesis
• Of Two Minds
• PopSci
• Professor Olsen @ Large
• Pure Pedantry
• Quackometer
• Respectful Insolence
• Science Punk
• Seeds Aside
• Terra Sigillata
• Tetrapod Zoology
• The Annotated Budak
• The Flying Trilobite
• The Issue
• The Other 95%
• This Week in Evolution
• Twisted Bacteria
• The Evilutionary Biologist
• Virginia Hughes
• Words of Science
• Zooillogix

Carnivals

• Berry Go Round
• Boneyard
• Carnival of the Blue
• Carnival of the Green
• Circus of the Spineless
• Encephalon
• Four Stone Hearth
• Gene Genie
• Grand Rounds
• I and the Bird
• Linnaeus's Legacy
• Mendel's Garden
• Oekologie
• Tangled Bank

Other blogs

• Cafe Philos
• Just Above Sunset
• Millard Fillmore's Bathtub
• Ombudsben
• Stop and Wander
• The 800lb Gorilla
• The Silent LOL
• Unspeak

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• Cancer Research UK
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