The Best Australian Science Writing 2014
eBook - ePub

The Best Australian Science Writing 2014

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Best Australian Science Writing 2014

About this book

Now in its fourth year, this popular and acclaimed anthology steps inside the Australia's finest scientific and literary minds to present a collection that celebrates the nation's finest science writing of the year. Featuring prominent authors—such as Tim Flannery, Jo Chandler, Frank Bowden and Iain McCalman, as well as many new voices—this annual anthology covers topics as diverse and wondrous as our "lumpy" universe, the creation of dragons, why are Sydney's golden orb weaver spiders getting fatter and fitter, and the frontiers of climate science.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Contributors
  6. Foreword: Clear and simple
  7. Introduction: Stories, definitions and the art of asking questions
  8. A short walk in the Australian bush
  9. Survival in the city
  10. Planet of the vines
  11. Is there room for organics?
  12. This. Here. Now. The climate catastrophe
  13. Weather and mind games
  14. Weathering the storm
  15. Firefront
  16. Antarctic ice: Going, going …
  17. They’re taking over! The jellyfish move in
  18. From Alzheimer’s to zebrafish
  19. Joseph Jukes’ epiphanies
  20. Popular mechanics: A short story
  21. The CAVE artists
  22. High-tech treasure hunt
  23. The carnivorous platypus
  24. The eye in the sand
  25. The now delusion
  26. Reached by committee, nineteen eighty-three
  27. Material of the future: Sticky tape, honey and graphene
  28. Pitch fever
  29. Uniquely human
  30. The pet-keeping species
  31. Penis size may be driven by women (Oh, and it matters …)
  32. Eleven grams of trouble
  33. TB and me: A medical souvenir
  34. Massimo’s genes: Medicine at the genetic frontier
  35. Life, the universe and Boolardy
  36. Liner notes, Voyager Golden Record
  37. Beyond the ‘Morning Star’
  38. The oldest known star
  39. The quantum spinmeister: Professor Andrea Morello
  40. Here be dragons
  41. Advisory panel
  42. Acknowledgments
  43. The Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing