The Best Australian Science Writing 2012
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The Best Australian Science Writing 2012

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eBook - ePub

The Best Australian Science Writing 2012

About this book

How were Ned Kelly's bones finally identified? What makes cockroaches some of the most successful creatures on the planet? Could some obscure bacteria finally rid the world of dengue fever? How did infant reflux become the disease of the moment? 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, rigorous, and true to the research that underlies it. This volume showcases the nation's best science writing, drawn from some of this Australia's best publications.

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Information

Publisher
NewSouth
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9781742241296
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. The Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing
  6. Advisory panel
  7. Contributors
  8. Foreword: A new era for science writing
  9. Introduction: Masters of the popular treatise
  10. Gateway to heaven
  11. Neutrinos and the speed of light … not so fast
  12. Blank canvas
  13. Under the hood of the universe
  14. The ill-effects of quackery v scientific evidence
  15. A hero’s legend and a stolen skull rustle up a DNA drama
  16. The rise and fall of infant reflux
  17. Earthquakes: When the world moves
  18. Seven billion reasons to be a feminist
  19. Balancing act
  20. Under the influence
  21. Why clever people believe in silly things
  22. Painting the rainforests REDD
  23. The evolution of the inadequate modern male
  24. A wee solution
  25. Diamond planets, climate change and the scientific method
  26. Storm front
  27. I want to play video games when I grow up (and so should you)
  28. Licence to heal
  29. Secret life of Enceladus
  30. The roach’s secret
  31. Australia in 2050
  32. Doctor’s orders: Debunking homeopathy once and for all
  33. The Aussie mozzie posse
  34. Life in Lake Vostok? The link between Antarctica and extra-terrestrials
  35. The doctor is in
  36. A dream of goldfinches
  37. Acknowledgments