Essays archive
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Digging behind the sofa cushions of the research literature
Reto Schneider
(4 Jan '09)
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What economics can learn from science
Bill Hanage
(28 Dec '08)
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How will science fare under Obama?
Bill Hanage
(23 Nov '08)
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On the joys of the lay summary
Stephen Curry
(9 Nov '08)
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On the misuse of science in advertising
Philip Strange
(12 Oct '08)
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'Science and Truth' meets Talkaoke
David Weinkove
(12 Oct '08)
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What media accounts of real scientists can teach us
Philip Strange
(14 Sep '08)
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The feminism, fiction, science and philosophy of Margaret Cavendish
Martin Griffiths
(31 Aug '08)
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Countering ignorance of evolution in the front line of America's university classrooms
Rob Carey
(18 Aug '08)
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On preventing scientific gaffes
Philip Strange
(10 Aug '08)
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A science teacher stumbles over a stereotype
Alom Shaha
(20 Jul '08)
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When scientists have to kill
Alison Christy
(6 Jul '08)
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On fiction, science and social criticism
Martin Griffiths
(22 Jun '08)
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What the novels of Patrick O'Brian can teach us
Stephen Curry
(6 Apr '08)
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Are animal/human hybrids truly inhuman?
Bill Hanage
(30 Mar '08)
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Science metaphors are remembered more than their creators
Alom Shaha
(30 Mar '08)
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A self-publishing experiment comes to fruition
Frank Ryan
(16 Feb '08)
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Can science images help fiction writers?
Amy Charles
(9 Feb '08)
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In animal research, uncomfortable questions are unavoidable
Stella Hill
(27 Jan '08)
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The lesser-known stories of the stars
Martin Griffiths
(13 Jan '08)
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What are famous scientists allowed to say?
Bill Hanage
(2 Dec '07)
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A fictional perspective on science
Julie Darbyshire
(25 Nov '07)
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Why is the government's own science adviser ignoring the science?
Bill Hanage
(4 Nov '07)
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The MINDful Play Environment is born
Dene Grigar & Steve Gibson
(28 Oct '07)
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Deconstructing Craig Venter's latest creation
Bill Hanage
(21 Oct '07)
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The birth of the British Interplanetary Society
Martin Griffiths
(30 Sep '07)
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'Corrupted Blood': valuable scientific tool, or a waste of journal space?
Bill Hanage
(30 Sep '07)
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Rocket pioneers lead the way
Martin Griffiths
(23 Sep '07)
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How early novelists inspired spaceflight
Martin Griffiths
(16 Sep '07)
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On growing up at Cold Spring Harbor
David Bryson
(26 Aug '07)
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An innovative project uses astronomy to reconnect faltering students with the wider universe
Allan Trow and Catherine Tryfona
(5 Aug '07)
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Why won't politicians listen to scientists?
Bill Hanage
(8 Jul '07)
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How users are expanding the versatility of a new online fiction distribution site
Andrew Burt
(10 Jun '07)
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On preaching to the unconverted
Henry Schreiber
(13 May '07)
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How impenetrable writing harms science
Linda Cooper
(6 May '07)
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Remembering Kurt Vonnegut
Henry Joy McCracken
(22 Apr '07)
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A quest towards self-publication: entry 12
Frank Ryan
(1 Apr '07)
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One cancer scare too far - at least in humans
Bill Hanage
(25 Mar '07)
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A quest towards self-publication: entry 11
Frank Ryan
(25 Mar '07)
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Playing fast and loose with genetic truth
Paul Andrews
(17 Mar '07)
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The strange science fiction of Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Laura Otis
(11 Mar '07)
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A quest towards self-publication: entry 10
Frank Ryan
(11 Mar '07)
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A quest towards self-publication: entry 9
Frank Ryan
(4 Mar '07)
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A quest towards self-publication: entry 8
Frank Ryan
(25 Feb '07)
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A quest towards self-publication: entry 7
Frank Ryan
(18 Feb '07)
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A quest towards self-publication: entry 6
Frank Ryan
(21 Jan '07)
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A quest towards self-publication: entry 5
Frank Ryan
(14 Jan '07)
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The web offers hope for those disappointed with science on TV
Alom Shaha
(14 Jan '07)
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A quest towards self-publication: entry 4
Frank Ryan
(7 Jan '07)
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Is anybody out there?
Kat Arney
(23 Dec '06)
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A quest towards self-publication: entry 3
Frank Ryan
(17 Dec '06)
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A quest towards self-publication: entry 2
Frank Ryan
(10 Dec '06)
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On the quest to publish a science thriller
Frank Ryan
(3 Dec '06)
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How eukaryotic cells should work - but apparently don’t
Carter Bancroft
(19 Nov '06)
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Beyond science pornography
Bill Hanage
(30 Sep '06)
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A childhood reminscence
Martin Raff
(24 Sep '06)
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What modern readers can learn from George Eliot
Mark Haw
(24 Sep '06)
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The Phage Group honors its own
Jennifer Rohn
(31 Aug '06)
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What can nuking zombies tell us about infectious disease control?
Bill Hanage
(21 Aug '06)
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Inspecting the facts in science fiction
Sally-Ann Spencer
(5 Aug '06)
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Does the size of your lab bench matter?
Jennifer Rohn
(8 Jul '06)
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A new virtual debate from the Institute of Physics
Kat Arney
(4 Jun '06)
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The more sinister side of jargon
Bill Hanage
(21 May '06)
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Researchers as novelists and characters
Clare Dudman
(14 May '06)
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On the role of science communication and literature in nuclear deterrence
Alom Shaha
(27 Apr '06)
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Taking STEPS to enhance PEST
Nicholas Russell
(9 Apr '06)
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What the textbooks can't teach us
Frans Saris
(12 Mar '06)
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My hot ticket to publication (not)
James Aach
(18 Feb '06)
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How scientists evolved to be resistant to public accountability
Nicholas Russell
(18 Feb '06)
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A scientific career and mountaineering have a lot in common
Terry Ord
(30 Jan '06)
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What it is that ‘science communicators’ do?
Alom Shaha
(18 Jan '06)
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Why has the novel shortchanged science?
Lewis Wolpert
(18 Jan '06)
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On an underground cultural phenomenon
Nick Woolley
(10 Jan '06)
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Writers experimenting with reality need to be more daring
Bill Hanage
(2 Dec '05)
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Why TV scientists can't be trusted
Helen Pickersgill
(25 Sep '05)
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Superimposing art and science as kindred concepts may be fashionable, but is it justified?
Lewis Wolpert
(18 Jul '05)
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Just how 'friendly' are those bacteria, anyway?
Bill Hanage
(3 Jul '05)
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The ‘science-art divide’ is a myth of our own making
Andrew Charalambous
(2 Jun '05)
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But do people really believe we’ll take it as science?
Bill Hanage
(31 Mar '05)
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Boffins are so last century - let's see some real scientists for a change
Jennifer Rohn
(7 Mar '05)
