The Best Australian Science Writing 2017
eBook - PDF

The Best Australian Science Writing 2017

  1. 302 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Best Australian Science Writing 2017

About this book

The annual collection celebrating the finest voices in Australian science writing. 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 seventh year, The Best Australian Science Writing brings together knowledge and insight 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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Information

Publisher
NewSouth
Year
2018
eBook ISBN
9781742248455
Edition
0
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Essays on Science
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. About the Author
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Introduction
  8. Grave Barrier Reef
  9. Alchemists of catastrophe: Extracting value from disasters
  10. Trace fossils: The silence of Ediacara, the shadow of uranium
  11. Fish have feelings too
  12. The machine generation
  13. Inspired by nature
  14. An unusual pattern
  15. Impossible alloys
  16. Alien intelligence: The extraordinary minds of octopuses and other cephalopods
  17. Tasmanian fires: How climate change has ravaged ancient World Heritage forests
  18. Counting birds to save the Murray–Darling
  19. An island ark
  20. Medicine with a bite
  21. What happened to climate science in the CSIRO?
  22. Impotence and optimism: The life of a cancer scientist
  23. Ruffled feathers in battle to save night parrot
  24. The big data telescope
  25. Settling science: Why the scientific method confuses us
  26. Testosterone rex
  27. Gender equity can amplify sex differences
  28. Were Aboriginal Australians the first astronomers?
  29. Ancient Aboriginal star maps shaped Australia’s highways
  30. Antibiotic resistance
  31. The furious debate over a disease that doesn’t officially exist
  32. Is it right to kill millions of animals if it protects others?
  33. The mystery of the missing antimatter
  34. Do aliens have inalienable rights?
  35. How to talk to humans in a million years
  36. Shark alert
  37. Lonesome leviathans
  38. The myth and reality of monster sharks that once ruled the seas
  39. The pyramid at the end of the world
  40. Contributors
  41. Acknowledgments
  42. Advisory panel