LabLit.com - the culture of science in fiction & fact

Coming soon...
- Hard cell
  
  Philip Strange ponders the media's spin on lab life
- Earth, the final frontier
  
  More original science poetry from John Thomas Clark
- He's here all week, folks
  
  Interview with science comedian Brian Malow
- Suit
  
  Original fiction from João Ramalho-Santos
- Quantum obesity
  
  The real reason that unification eludes us?
- ... and more!
Past highlights
- The Day After Today
  
  Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson
- Dr. Flirt
  
  Can a PhD attract women?
- Bad cop
  
  Guardian columnist Ben Goldacre defrocks the pseudoscientists
- Unkind literature
  
  Lewis Wolpert ponders fictional science bad guys
- The Glider
  
  Martin Raff recalls a childhood bust-up
- Marketing lab lit fiction
  
  An experiment with Waterstone's
- Sex in the lab
  
  What's Kat Arney wearing under her white coat?

Featured fact

The ID Buster

Interview: with Kenneth Miller

Our first responsibility in a democratic society is to act as citizens, and that means speaking up for science in our schools

Featured fiction

NEW! A quick spin

Fiction: Julie Ghosh

She saw herself from the outside: a grown woman, the head of her own research group. She felt like an utter fraud

NEW! Mrs. Oppenheimer's woes

Doctor Atomic by John Adams

Review: Amy Charles

In a man's world

The science and mind of Margaret Cavendish

Essay: Martin Griffiths

There is a feeling that we will find cures someday, but the public is anxious that the cures won't come soon enough to help them"

Steven Wiley writing in The Scientist

Lemons and lunacy

Lab Rats on BBC3

Review: Stephen Curry

My kids think I'm a boffin

Scientists stereotypes amongst schoolkids

Essay: Alom Shaha

Big country

One itinerant scientist's story

Lab Rats: rpg

Reaching for the stars

Kepler by John Banville

Review: Stephen Curry

Sacrifice

When scientists have to kill

Essay: Alison Christy

One of the things that troubles me most is that the rapid-fire publication of unsettled results in highly visible venues creates the impression that the scientific community has no idea what's going on."

W. Tad Pfeffer as quoted in The New York Times

Paean to mathematics

From the LabLit science verse series

Poetry: Peter Roberts

Understanding ID

Only A Theory by Kenneth Miller

Review: Ian Brooks

Teaching to the enemy

On the front line of classroom evolution

Essay: Rob Carey

A Top 40 Hit

Excerpt from the NASA ROCKS collection

Poetry: John Thomas Clark

The heat of the moment?

On preventing scientific gaffes

Essay: Philip Strange

Lab report

From the LabLit short story series

Fiction: Dave Haan

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amyc writes:

Some of the very same people who're busy calling Palin "Yukon Barbie" and blogging about her clothes were furious, last year, when people talked about Obama's suits. Which happen to be the nicest I've seen in American politics, ever.