The Best Australian Science Writing 2017
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The Best Australian Science Writing 2017

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eBook - ePub

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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Publisher
NewSouth
Year
2018
Topic
Biological Sciences
eBook ISBN
9781742244051
Subtopic
Essays on Science
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

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

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