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Thursday various
occasional fish —
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Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel beat Avatar in this Wednesday’s box office . That can’t be good. [ via ] George over at Bookninja thinks this is some kind of horrible abomination, but I think this Soft Morphing Blob ‘Bot is actually sort of cool. I find it difficult to believe that a ...3 days ago -
The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing
Educated Nation | Higher Education Blog —
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It’s shocking. I’m overwhelmed with dumbfounded bafflement. How can this be? They went and published an anthology of science writing , and all but three of the authors are of the male persuasion. Is that even possible? Hold on! I’m thinking. I think yes, there’s a staggeringly high chance that this ...4 days ago -
[links] Link salad watches the light come back
Lakeshore —
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mordicai reviews Pinion — Which is the first review Ive seen of the book. If youve recently tuned in, Pinion is the third Mainspring book, and will be out in April. fiction_theory with a (largely negative) review of Mainspring [ Powells | Amazon thb | Barnes & Noble | ...5 days ago -
[links] Link salad watches the light come back
jlake.com —
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mordicai reviews Pinion — Which is the first review I’ve seen of the book. If you’ve recently tuned in, Pinion is the third Mainspring book, and will be out in April. fiction_theory with a (largely negative) review of Mainspring [ Powells | Amazon thb | Barnes & Noble | ...5 days ago -
2010 Poetry Contest for Kids! Grades K – 12
Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff —
Authority: 422
2010 writing contest The 2010 Neuroscience for Kids POETRY WRITING CONTEST is OPEN and entry forms are now available. Here are the rules of the contest: Only one entry per person. Please type or print your poems so we can read them. Use the official entry form (copies of the form are acceptable) to write a poem ...1 week ago -
My Newsweek complaint
john hawks weblog —
Authority: 428
Ive been annoyed about Newsweek since they changed their format earlier this year. They went from trying to be a comprehensive weekly news magazine, to a shorter magazine full of page-long "opinion" essays coupled with longer-form "opinion-reporting" articles. This isnt usually the kind of thing I would complain ...1 week ago -
Writing Advice with Health Implications
Oz and Ends —
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Any guide to good writing says that specific phrasing is stronger than vague generalities. Rich vocabularies can express more than narrow lexicons. Some repeated phrases might be poetic, but using the same words or phrases or constructions over and over is a good way to bore readers. Specific terms and varied ...1 week ago -
Medical Insights with Dr. A. Gawande
Along The Way —
Authority: 111
Fascinating reading is available in two books by Dr. Atul Gawande I’ve read during the past couple of years I am finally briefly reviewing here. I was reminded of my intent to share my impressions of this author’s writing and books when I read “Health Care Reform Revelation” at “Time Goes By” ...1 week ago -
SURVIVAL FOR NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES
Extelligence —
Authority: 426
I have long maintained that for the newspaper industry the ultimate survivor will be technology. Develop a digital format that feels like paper and can offer print and video, updated over the air and you have a future. The printing industry will die, but I believe that like the rest of information it will need to ...2 weeks ago -
Why Friends Don’t Let Friends Read HuffPost “Science”
The Inverse Square Blog —
Authority: 467
This . I confess that I have an instant gag reflex to the work of any author who permits this kind of bio line attach to his/her name: “ Robert Lanza, MD is considered one of the leading scientists in the world.” But that’s only a symptom of the real problem here. As are such telling but on one level ...2 weeks ago -
[links] Link salad skids into another Friday
Lakeshore —
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Naming People After Gods — Language Log asks an interesting question. All kinds of resource in comments. Well worth the read for those of you who write characters with names. The Belgian Red Cross — WWI poster art. Can gerbils read maps? — Heh. This makes more sense than the headline suggests. Making ...2 weeks ago -
[links] Link salad skids into another Friday
jlake.com —
Authority: 438
Naming People After Gods — Language Log asks an interesting question. All kinds of resource in comments. Well worth the read for those of you who write characters with names. The Belgian Red Cross — WWI poster art. Can gerbils read maps? — Heh. This makes more sense than the headline suggests. Making ...2 weeks ago -
Are 96.4% Of Modern Science Writers Men?
The Intersection —
Authority: 650
Of course not. But I was startled to read this post via @ DrHGG on Twitter: Got myself an early yule present today; “ The Oxford book of modern science writing ” edited by teh Dawkins d00d. A first glance of the table of contents sends happy shivers down my spine – a great collection of 83 pieces of ...3 weeks ago -
Miracles and paradigm shifts: Banned words
Covering Health —
Authority: 135
Writer Carl Zimmer has posted an “ Index of Banned Words ” in science writing. Zimmer’s list grew out of one he compiled for his science writing class that has since been expanded by reader suggestions. Some words and phrases that made the list: Missing link Seminal Impact (verb) Demographic leveling ...3 weeks ago -
A New Essay
monkey's uncle —
Authority: 91
Most of my essays of late are written here for monkey’s uncle . This week, an essay that I wrote for a series on the future of Anthropology was published in Anthropology News , the newsletter of the American Anthropological Association . So, rather than write it again, I will simply link to it !3 weeks ago -
Planetfall
Astrogator's Logs —
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Sex and the scientist
The Culture of Chemistry —
Authority: 91
(Cross posted at my other blog .) I am in the midst of writing an essay for Nature Chemistry - about why people are so curious about stereotypes of scientists, but seem less so about other fields. There is the DAST (draw a scientist test), but not as far as I can discover similar instruments to assess the ...4 weeks ago -
[links] Link salad hears a high lonesome sound
jlake.com —
Authority: 438
A bit more on Interzone 225 — With novelette “Bone Island” by calendula_witch and me. Get Fuzzy on the perils of authorship (again) The Extraordinary World of Ex Libris Art — (Via Dark Roasted Blend .) Best Use of Exploitative Tactis — Drawn! with a very strange, short animation. ...5 weeks ago -
[links] Link salad hears a high lonesome sound
Lakeshore —
Authority: 438
A bit more on Interzone 225 — With novelette "Bone Island" by calendula_witch and me. Get Fuzzy on the perils of authorship (again) The Extraordinary World of Ex Libris Art — (Via Dark Roasted Blend .) Best Use of Exploitative Tactis — Drawn! with a very strange, short animation. ...5 weeks ago -
[links] Link salad takes the last train to the coast
jlake.com —
Authority: 438
The Good. The Bad. The Ugly. — Kameron Hurley riffs on a recent comment of mine about copy writing vs fiction writing. Two Lumps does steampunk The Emerging Field of Biophotonic Communication — The growing evidence that cells communicate with photons is generating an exciting new field of research. Wow ...5 weeks ago
