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The Best Australian Science Writing 2019
About this book
Good science writing makes us feel. It makes us delight in the discovery of a black hole munching on a star, laugh at the image of aliens puzzling over golf balls on the Moon, wonder at the mystery of the Spanish influenza's deadly rampage, grieve for baby shearwater chicks dying with plastic-filled stomachs, rage at the loss of the Great Barrier Reef and cheer for the clitoris' long-overdue scientific debut. This ninth edition of The Best Australian Science Writing showcases the most powerful, insightful and brilliant essays and poetry from Australian writers and scientists. It roams the length and breadth of science, revealing how a ceramic artist is helping to save the handfish, what is so dangerous about the hype around artificial intelligence and whether too much exercise is bad for the heart. It makes us think, feel and hopefully act.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction: Delight and the darkness
- The dragons are changing
- Maxed out
- Crafting a ceramic habitat for a handfish
- When planetary catastrophe is your day job
- Why we need to send artists into space
- Bush tobacco
- Life after death
- Elon Musk and the failure of our imagination in space
- Getting cliterate
- A tale of two turtles
- [11] Sodium
- How CRISPR could save six billion chickens from the meat grinder
- Lasting impressions
- Everything, everything from shells
- And God damn it, we were ready!
- Letter to a weather station
- ‘It’s not a replication crisis – it’s an innovation opportunity’
- The butterfly effect
- An invisible disease
- Under IPCC forecasts, babies born today will be 22 when warming hits 1.5 degrees Celsius – what will life be like?
- n = 1
- Golf balls on the Moon
- Solving the mystery of lost foals
- Alchemy
- Oceans of krill
- Can wedge-tailed eagles survive the slaughter?
- What do we mean when we call something a disease?
- A pest in paradise
- Step away from the coffee
- The 1918 influenza pandemic affected the whole world – could it happen again?
- A star is torn
- Ghost species and shadow places
- The bone hunters
- While politicians refuse to act, Australians get more overweight
- A tiny coral paradise in the Great Barrier Reef reckons with climate change
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- The Bragg UNSW Press Student Prize for Science Writing 2018 Winner: i-Care