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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

• Parasites outweigh top predators and castrators do best of all
• Spread the word...
• Fishing bans protect coral reefs from devastating predatory starfish
• Social spiders do better when hunting with relatives
• The mantis shrimp has the world's fastest punch
• Singing fish reveal shared origins of vertebrate vocals
• Obesity amplifies across generations; can folate-rich diets stop it?
• Infants remember more by 'chunking' groups
• Disease-ravaged devils have started living fast and dying young
• Tarantula climbs walls by spinning silk from its feet

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• A Somewhat Old, But Capricious Handbag
• Aetiology
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• Babel's Dawn
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• Cognitive Daily
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• Denialism
• Dispelled: No Unintelligence Allowed
• Effect Measure
• End of the Pier
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• The Issue
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• This Week in Evolution
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