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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.
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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Other writing
In addition to writing this blog, I'm also starting a freelance science writing career. Here are some links to other pieces elsewhere on the web.
2008
11/05 - New Scientist - Rats feel peer pressure too
08/04 - New Scientist - Losing one gene brings out a mouse's wild side
01/04 - Nature Network - London's HIV epidemic spreads in sexual 'clusters'
27/03 - New Scientist - City songbirds are changing their tune
24/01 - Nature News - Blind fish see shadows
23/01 - Nature Network - Beetlemania
23/01 - Nature - Preview: Revealing reptiles
09/01 - Nature Network - At home with Attenborough
2007
18/12 - Daily Telegraph - The GM crop that will sow less bitterness
17/12 - Nature Network - Swapping hoodies for lab coats
29/11 - Nature Network - Social networking two million years ago
29/11 - The Economist - Riding piggyback - How MRSA is jumping from pigs to humans
22/11 - Nature Network - Gordon Brown opens Launchpad gallery at the Science Museum
31/10 - Nature Network - Wiki-book on chlorine heralds new style of undergraduate teaching
29/10 - Nature Network - Review: Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2007
26/09 - Daily Telegraph - Tardis returs to earth (on tardigrades in space)
18/09 - Nature Network - The fall and rise of British lefties
28/08 - Daily Telegraph - Grammar, a weapon against bacteria
2006
07/01 - New Scientist - How cats’ eyes keep the world in focus
