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About Not Exactly Rocket Science
Ed Yong is an award-winning British science writer. Not Exactly Rocket Science is his attempt to talk about the awe-inspiring, beautiful and quirky world of science to as many people as possible. He finds talking about himself in the third person strange and unsettling.
Some interviews with me
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Who my readers are: 2008, 2009 and 2010 editions
A complete list of posts from this blogContact me on edyong209[at]googlemail[dot]com
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- Charitable bacteria protect vulnerable sisters from antibiotics
- Do new discoveries ever “rewrite evolutionary history”?
- Bonobo males get sex with help from their mums
- Massive eggs were the most fragile of any bird (Pocket Science)
- Goodbye smallpox vaccination, hello monkeypox
- Balaur the stocky dragon – Velociraptor’s double-clawed Romanian cousin
- The beetle with bifocal eyes
- Spotted links – 28th August 2010
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Twitter- edyong209: Ha! How authoritarian leaders stack up on Twitter. (3/4 of these are verified accounts!) http://bit.ly/9qrysD
- edyong209: In which biologists compete to see who can get the pithiest smackdown about the Nowak/Wilson paper http://bit.ly/bwyDjC Hughes wins.
- edyong209: Can Sacks now interview Silberman? Because clearly, getting awesome sci-writers to interview each other = reading gold.
- edyong209: It's not just a joke. How sexist humour "promotes behavioral release of prejudice against women" http://bit.ly/bJqbZ7
- edyong209: Early #ff for @stevesilberman, whose interview with Oliver Sacks is definitely the read of the week http://bit.ly/9jErYh
- edyong209: It's 1am, I've filed everything for the wk, I have a plush giant squid & I'm reading @stevesilberman's Oliver Sacks interview. All is good.
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- Thu Sep 2nd, 2010 by Sheril Kirshenbaum | no comments
The Intersection | The Science of Sexism: Primate Behavior and the Culture of Sexual Coercion - Thu Sep 2nd, 2010 by Rebecca Horne | no comments
Visual Science | Lucy in the Museum With Shrink Wrap - Wed Sep 1st, 2010 by Phil Plait | 17 comments
Bad Astronomy | A click a day helps astronomers help kids - Thu Sep 2nd, 2010 by Razib Khan | one comment
Gene Expression | Which American racial group has the lowest fertility? - Wed Sep 1st, 2010 by Carl Zimmer | 8 comments
The Loom | Networks Upon Networks! - Wed Sep 1st, 2010 by Joseph Calamia | 6 comments
Discoblog | When the World Was Young, and Human Cannibalism Wasn't Such a Big Deal - Wed Sep 1st, 2010 by Joseph Calamia | 3 comments
80beats | Study: Antarctica's "Achilles' Heel" Ice Sheet Once Collapsed - Wed Sep 1st, 2010 by Ed Yong | 12 comments
Not Exactly Rocket Science | Do new discoveries ever “rewrite evolutionary history”? - Mon Aug 30th, 2010 by Eric Wolff | 18 comments
Science Not Fiction | It's Not the Heat, It's the Humidity: Electricity From Air - Tue Aug 31st, 2010 by Sean | 97 comments
Cosmic Variance | Calculus Day!
Discover tweeters
- edyong209: "I'd be delighted to see gray whales [in] ancestral waters. I’m just not eager to thaw the Arctic to do it" @tvjrennie http://bit.ly/b63WUG
- edyong209: First thoughts: I love how up-to-date Written in Stone is. @laelaps even has the dino-colours stuff from THIS year.
- edyong209: Excellent. My copy of Written in Stone by @laelaps finally arrived! Love the cover, illustr'ns & dedication to his wife. Now for the words.
- edyong209: Nice! @laelaps on @guardiansciblog: The Mosasaur's kinky tail http://bit.ly/bUUEyQ
- razibkhan: 20 million ppl in your country displaced by floods. let's kill ppl cuz they revere ali! ok.... http://trunc.it/aopzd
- BadAstronomer: RT @dblackanese: Hanging out w/@badastronomer & @breagrant & @templesmith WE WILL BURY YOU trade release party at @Theshq store.
- razibkhan: really *hate* discovery institute showing up in my google search rss for 'evolution'
- razibkhan: when ppl discuss one of my posts in podcast always gets WAY DISTORTED. text's constraints produce fidelity
- Thu Sep 2nd, 2010 by Sheril Kirshenbaum | no comments
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