The Best Australian Science Writing 2013
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The Best Australian Science Writing 2013

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eBook - ePub

The Best Australian Science Writing 2013

About this book

Contributions from neuroscientists, climate commentators, psychologists, and science journalists share the billing with pieces from comedians, novelists, and poets in this collection of the best science writing in Australia. Rather than dry or abstract scientific theory, these essays address relevant, engaging, even entertaining topics such as Could the dodo make a comeback? What does science have to say about the sex in Fifty Shades of Grey ? Is giving up meat really the greenest option? Do birds make art? and Can a psychologist interpret farts? With a foreword by comedian, musician, and self-confessed science nerd Tim Minchin, this provocative collection is brimming with intrigue, curiosity, and controversy.

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Information

Publisher
NewSouth
Year
2014
eBook ISBN
9781742241654
Edition
0
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Collections
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Contributors
  7. Foreword: Not a Nobel laureate
  8. Introduction: An intimate dissection
  9. The weather of who we are
  10. It’s time to become gonads
  11. The last laughing death
  12. The perils of evolution
  13. Darwin’s modest discovery
  14. Earthmasters: Playing God with the climate
  15. Science is more than freaks and circuses
  16. Animals on drugs
  17. Dreamtime cave
  18. Heart dissection
  19. Reaching one thousand
  20. Higgs boson
  21. Here come the übernerds: Planets, Pluto and Prague
  22. Many-worlds quantum mechanics vs earth-based grease monkeys
  23. The vagina dialogues
  24. Big Data can tell by your tweets if you’re a psychopath: That’s only the beginning …
  25. With body in mind (after Vesalius)
  26. How a donor is done
  27. Nest: The art of birds
  28. My father’s body
  29. Sentinel chickens
  30. The science of shark fishing
  31. On flatulence
  32. Radioactive cigarettes: X-ray inhale
  33. Martyrs to Gondwanaland: The cost of scientific exploration
  34. Mr Jevons and his paradox
  35. Alimentary thinking
  36. The carnivore’s (ongoing) dilemma
  37. Beyond the shock machine
  38. Australia’s endangered future
  39. Alive as a dodo
  40. Probably a sacrifice
  41. Fire on the mountain: A walk on Mt Stromlo
  42. Advisory panel
  43. Acknowledgments
  44. The Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing