- 321 pages
- English
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The Best Australian Science Writing 2016
About this book
From the furthest reaches of the universe to the microscopic world of our genes, science offers writers the kind of scope other subjects simply can't match. Good writing about science can be moving, funny, exhilarating or poetic, but it will always be honest and rigorous about the research that underlies it. Now in its sixth year,
The Best Australian Science Writing 2016 brings together knowledge and insights from Australia's brightest thinkers as they explore the intricacies of the world around us. This lively collection of essays covers a wide range of subjects and challenges our perceptions of the world and how we exist within it.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword by Professor Fiona Stanley AC
- Introduction by Jo Chandler
- Transforming the bush by Paul Daley
- Every lizard counts by Nicole Gill
- Lucy's lullaby: Song of the ages by Fiona McMillan
- Pluto and the human gaze by Alice Gorman
- Germ warfare by Karen Hitchcock
- The forest at the edge of time by Ashley Hay
- Cyberbrains by Jane McCredie
- Drilling for history by Adam Morton
- I feel, therefore I am by Margaret Wertheim
- You wouldn't bet on it: The cosmic crapshoot of life by Geraint F Lewis
- The doctor will scan you now by Leah Kaminsky
- Radiology by Magdalene Ball and Rob Walker
- Slippery migrants by James Bradley
- Swept up in a gravitational wave by Ling Sun
- Beautiful contrivances by Susan Double
- Reality cannot by denied by Peter Doherty
- The bone collector by Andrew McMillen
- Built for eternity by Elmo Keep
- Once bitten: The tick making a meal of carnivores by Bianca Nogrady
- Ice Age lizards of Oz by Gilbert Price
- Tooling up for Mars by Belinda Smith
- Cracking the Knut case by Wendy Zukerman
- Lessons from a working dog by Hazel Flynn and Elizabeth Finkel
- Don't shoot: Stargazing in Afghanistan by Danielle Moylan
- Antarctica's sleeping giant stirs by Tas van Ommen
- Treasure chests by Brian Hawkins
- New power, new realities by Kathy Marks
- Her brilliant career by Wilson da Silva
- Downloadable, full searchable, you by Sophia Frentz
- White knuckle ethics: From the moral high ground to the slippery slope by Michael Cook
- The hunt for Ned Kelly's head by Craig Cormick
- Meat the relatives by Michael Slezak
- Be afraid of the known unknowns by William Laurance
- Poet of light by Roger Pulvers
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- The Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing 2016 shortlist
- Advisory panel