The best Australian science writing. 2011 / edited by Stephen Pincock.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pincock, Stephen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Australia--Popular works.

Science.

Technical writing--Australia.

Technical writing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney : New South Publishing, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From the elemental forces that drive our expanding universe to the delicate hairs on the back of your neck, science offers talented writers the kind of scope that other subjects simply can't match. This dynamic genre of Australian writing has never, until now, been showcased in an anthology. With a foreword by Nobel Prize winner Peter Doherty, The Best Australian Science Writing 2011 is a landmark book.

Contents:

Advisory panel; Contributors; Foreword: Science writing for our time; Introduction: Specimen hunting; Bad hotel; Science without a capital S: Battling Grumpy Uncles, Media Tarts and Jurassic Marxists; You should probably just move oceans, male Gulf pipefish; The trouble with genes; There is no mercury in vaccines; Is your brain making you fat?; It's time to talk; To save a species; Birth of a killer; Lousy science; A fresh look at Earth; How to keep the river flowing; Blame it on the Stones; In the age of fishes; Tiger by the tail; Gone viral; Skin feeders; Once were dinosaurs

Australian floods: Why were we so surprised?No escaping the science; How aqua regia saved Nobel Prize medals from the Nazis; Extremes of sound; String theory ties us in knots; Deepak Chopra: Misunderstanding physics since he willed himself into existence; Twinkling stars; Flesh and stardust; Is anybody out there?; Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-74224-575-7

OCLC:

769342346