Why Some Science Blogs Rock

By Keith Kloor | December 23, 2009 10:49 am

This is not the Donald Duck I grew up with! Oh, lordy, Carl Zimmer peels back the curtain on freaky duck sex. And not just the evolutionary scoop. He’s got slow motion video, too. All set up by this killer lede:

There comes a time in every science writer’s career when one must write about glass duck vaginas and explosive duck penises.

Great, next time I’m in the Magic Kingdom, I’m keeping Donald and Daisy away from the kids.

CATEGORIZED UNDER: evolution, science journalism
  • Steve Bloom

    C’mon, Keith, with just a little creativity you can turn this into yet another story about conflict among environmentalists.

  • http://collide-a-scape.com Keith Kloor

    You really should get a life, Steve.

  • Steve Bloom

    Hey, *I* don’t have a blog.

  • lil john

    having read this blog on an infrequent basis, I think it’s you, keith, who needs to get a life.  I mean, seriously, and all.

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About Keith Kloor

Keith Kloor is a freelance journalist and adjunct professor of journalism at New York University. His work has appeared in Slate, Science, Discover, Nature Climate Change, Archaeology, and Audubon Magazine, among other outlets. From 2000 to 2008, he was a senior editor at Audubon Magazine. In 2008-2009, he was a Fellow at the University of Colorado’s Center for Environmental Journalism, in Boulder, where he studied how a changing environment (including climate change) influenced prehistoric societies in the U.S. Southwest. He covers a wide range of topics, from conservation biology and biotechnology to urban planning and archaeology.

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