The Best Australian Science Writing 2014

• Main Authors: Hay, Ashley, Lowe, Ian
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Sydney, NSW University of New South Wales Press 2015; NewSouth Publishing; NewSouth
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Australia; Communication in science; Science in literature; Technical writing

Ashley Hay is the author of four books of narrative nonfiction, including Gum: The Story of Eucalypts and Their Champions, and two novels, including The Railwayman's Wife, which was short-listed in the fiction category of the NSW Premier's Literary Awards and won the People's Choice A...

Table of Contents:

• Cover -- About the Editor -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- A short walk in the Australian bush -- Survival in the City -- Planet of the Vines -- Is There Room for Organics? -- This. Here. Now. The climate catastrophe -- Weather and mind games -- Weathering the storm -- Firefront -- Antarctic ice: Going, going … -- They're taking over! The jellyfish move in -- From Alzheimer's to zebrafish -- Joseph Jukes' epiphanies -- Popular mechanics: A short story -- The CAVE artists -- High-tech treasure hunt -- The carnivorous platypus -- The eye in the sand -- The now delusion -- Reached by committee, nineteen eighty-three -- Material of the future: Sticky tape, honey and graphene -- Pitch fever -- Uniquely human -- The pet-keeping species -- Penis size may be driven by women (Oh, and it matters…) -- Eleven grams of trouble -- TB and me: A medical souvenir -- Massimo's genes: Medicine at the genetic frontier -- Life, the universe and Boolardy -- Liner notes, Voyager Golden Record -- Beyond the 'Morning Star' -- The oldest known star -- The quantum spinmeister: Professor Andrea Morello -- Here be dragons -- ADVISORY PANEL -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- The Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing