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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- Sex, Drugs and Rockin' Venom - Confessions of an Extreme Scientist
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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.
2009
10/03 - New Scientist - East meets west: How the brain unites us all
28/02 - Guardian - The trouble with crowds
2008
Oct tbc - SEED Magazine - Article on ape rights
13/08 - New Scientist - The evolutionary story of the 'language gene'
09/07 - New Scientist - Scientists find smoking gun for diabetes sperm damage
25/06 - New Scientist - Girls are as competitive as boys just more subtle
23/05 - New Scientist - Lab rats turn cannibal in cleaner cages
18/05 - New Scientist - Biggest is not best in mosquito mating game
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
