The best Australian science writing 2014 / edited by Ashley Hay.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hay, Ashley, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technical writing--Australia.

Technical writing.

Communication in science--Australia.

Communication in science.

Science in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney, New South Wales : Newsouth, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The annual collection celebrating the finest Australian science writing of the year. Why are Sydney's golden orb weaver spiders getting fatter and fitter? Could sociology explain the recent upsurge in prostate cancer diagnoses? Why were Darwinites craving a good storm during 'The Angry Summer'? Is it true that tuberculosis has become deadlier over time? And are jellyfish really taking over the world? Now in its fourth year, this popular and acclaimed anthology steps inside the nation's laboratories and its finest scientific and literary minds. Featuring prominent authors such as Tim Flannery,

Contents:

CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; A short walk in the Australian bush; Survival in the City; Planet of the Vines; Is There Room for Organics?; This. Here. Now. The climate catastrophe; Weather and mind games; Weathering the storm; Firefront; Antarctic ice: Going, going ...; They're taking over! The jellyfish move in; From Alzheimer's to zebrafish; Joseph Jukes' epiphanies; Popular mechanics: A short story; The CAVE artists; High-tech treasure hunt; The carnivorous platypus; The eye in the sand; The now delusion; Reached by committee, nineteen eighty-three

Material of the future: Sticky tape, honey and graphenePitch fever; Uniquely human; The pet-keeping species; Penis size may be driven by women (Oh, and it matters...); Eleven grams of trouble; TB and me: A medical souvenir; Massimo's genes: Medicine at the genetic frontier; Life, the universe and Boolardy; Liner notes, Voyager Golden Record; Beyond the 'Morning Star'; The oldest known star; The quantum spinmeister: Professor Andrea Morello; Here be dragons; ADVISORY PANEL; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; The Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 5, 2014).

ISBN:

9781742241883

1742241883

9781742247137

174224713X

OCLC:

913798085