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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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Yes, you can access The Best Australian Science Writing 2017 by Michael Slezak in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Biological Sciences & Essays on Science. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Grave Barrier Reef
- Alchemists of catastrophe: Extracting value from disasters
- Trace fossils: The silence of Ediacara, the shadow of uranium
- Fish have feelings too
- The machine generation
- Inspired by nature
- An unusual pattern
- Impossible alloys
- Alien intelligence: The extraordinary minds of octopuses and other cephalopods
- Tasmanian fires: How climate change has ravaged ancient World Heritage forests
- Counting birds to save the MurrayâDarling
- An island ark
- Medicine with a bite
- What happened to climate science in the CSIRO?
- Impotence and optimism: The life of a cancer scientist
- Ruffled feathers in battle to save night parrot
- The big data telescope
- Settling science: Why the scientific method confuses us
- Testosterone rex
- Gender equity can amplify sex differences
- Were Aboriginal Australians the first astronomers?
- Ancient Aboriginal star maps shaped Australiaâs highways
- Antibiotic resistance
- The furious debate over a disease that doesnât officially exist
- Is it right to kill millions of animals if it protects others?
- The mystery of the missing antimatter
- Do aliens have inalienable rights?
- How to talk to humans in a million years
- Shark alert
- Lonesome leviathans
- The myth and reality of monster sharks that once ruled the seas
- The pyramid at the end of the world
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments