Not Exactly Rocket Science
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 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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Recent Posts
- How the turtle got its shell through skeletal shifts and muscular origami
- Ebola found in pigs (thankfully, it's the one harmless type)
- Rapamycin - the Easter Island drug that extends lifespan of old mice
- The bigger the ego, the harder the fall - how self-awareness buffers against social rejection
- On cheerleaders and watchdogs - the role of science journalism
- Who are you?
- Mobs of honeybees suffocate hornets to death
- Bees kill hornets with carbon dioxide emissions and local warming
- By eating fruit, birds protect Serengeti forests from beetles
- Does science journalism falter or flourish under embargo?
Recent Comments
- Zach Miller on On cheerleaders and watchdogs - the role of science journalism
- Zach on Army ants plug potholes with their own bodies
- Anonymous on Who are you?
- Christine Hill on Who are you?
- arvind on Who are you?
- Sean Craven on Who are you?
- BioloBri on Who are you?
- Neil Rickards on Spread the word...
- Ed Yong on Rapamycin - the Easter Island drug that extends lifespan of old mice
- Liz Newton on Rapamycin - the Easter Island drug that extends lifespan of old mice
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Blogroll
Science blogs
- A Somewhat Old, But Capricious Handbag
- Adventures in Ethics and Science
- Aetiology
- Bad Science
- Beyond the Short Coat
- Biochemical Soul
- Bioephemera
- Built on Facts
- Cancer Research UK Science Update Blog
- Cocktail Party Physics
- Cognitive Daily
- Culture Dish
- Deep Sea News
- Denialism
- Drugmonkey
- Effect Measure
- ERV
- Ethical Palaeontologist
- Evolving Thoughts
- Gene Expression
- Genomicron
- Guilty Planet
- Highly Allochthonous
- Hoxful Monsters
- Laelaps
- Lay Scientist
- Living the Scientific Life
- Loom
- Lunar Weight
- Malaria, Bedbugs, Sea Lice and Sunsets
- The Millikan Daily
- Mind Hacks
- Mind the Gap
- Myrmecos
- Neurologica
- Neurophilosophy
- Neurotopia 2.0
- Null Hypothesis
- Observations of a Nerd
- Oh for the Love of Science
- On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess
- Oyster's Garter
- Photo Synthesis
- Professor Olsen @ Large
- Pure Pedantry
- Quackometer
- Respectful Insolence
- Science Punk
- Seeds Aside
- Sex, Drugs and Rockin' Venom - Confessions of an Extreme Scientist
- Skepchick
- Stranger Fruit
- Terra Sigillata
- Tetrapod Zoology
- The Flying Trilobite
- The Fuzzy Biologist
- The Inverse Square Blog
- The Other 95%
- The Reef Tank
- This Week in Evolution
- The Evilutionary Biologist
- Thus Spake Zuska
- Ugly Overload
- Virginia Hughes
- White Coat Underground
- Wired Science
- Words of Science
- Zooillogix
- Cafe Philos
- Just Above Sunset
- May's Machete
- Millard Fillmore's Bathtub
- Miss Cellania
- Ombudsben
- Stop and Wander
- The 800lb Gorilla
- The Silent LOL
- Unspeak
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