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The best Australian science writing 2018 / edited by John Pickrell ; foreword by Professor Michelle Simmons.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Technical writing--Australia.
- Technical writing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (292 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Sydney, New South Wales : NewSouth, [2018]
- Summary:
- 'For the general reader, there are few better ways to get the backstory to the latest developments and controversies in science than through this annual collection of essays (and poems).' - Fiona Capp, Sydney Morning Herald.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- The origins of entanglement
- Kilonova
- 'Would you burn the Mona Lisa if it was sent?': Our horror bureaucratic bungle
- The entangled web
- Star of the sub-atomic
- Curing homosexuality
- Wildlife interrupted
- The Great Southern Reef
- Spectre
- The anything factory
- Hauntology on country
- The birdman's wife
- Volcanic eruptions may have contributed to war in ancient Egypt
- Amid fear and guns, polio finds a refuge
- The hole truth?
- Shoal attack: How a school of fish helped Aussie netballers win gold
- Bionic eyes, arms and spines are no longer science fiction
- Speak for the trees: Hope and hopelessness mingle in the singed Tarkine
- 'Is Ian cured? Maybe': The astonishing cancer treatment of Australia's chief scientist
- Sexual harassment in science: Why so few report it and what happens to those who do
- From bloodletting to placebo surgery
- Trapdoor spiders made a terrifying ocean voyage to move to Australia
- Urban life aquatic: A discovery in Paris reveals a huge ecosystem hidden in plain sight
- Holy shark
- The botanist, the chemist, and the painkilling lettuce
- The bad science of medical cannabis
- Coming clean: The physics of doing the laundry
- A new toolkit for fighting the toad
- Maryam Mirzakhani: Remembering a brilliant mathematician who inspired a world of possibilities
- Radical dimensions
- Big Bang: The science of sex in space
- The five senses
- The search for alien life
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-74224-434-3
- OCLC:
- 1066183426
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