Writing tagged: ‘science’
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Turtles of the air
What links sea-turtles, swifts, and railway viaducts? Plus some handy ornithological photo tips.
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Book review: ‘The Enlightenment’ by John Robertson
A very short introduction.
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Book review: ‘The History of Life’ by Michael J Benton
A very short introduction.
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Book review: ‘The Ice Age’ by Jamie Woodward
A very short introduction.
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Hats off to geology!
Geology doesn’t receive the recognition it deserves. Our modern understanding of how the world formed and evolved is one of science’s great triumphs.
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Darwin on earthworms: small change writ large
A review of Charles Darwin’s wonderful final book, ‘The Formation of Vegetable Mould, Through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits’.
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Bacon and X
Not wishing to boast, but Richard Carter didn’t get C-minuses—and he certainly didn’t get SEE MEs.
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Invertigo
I’ve never seen stars remotely approaching those in Anglesey. There are so damn many of them. Thousand upon thousand. Too many to count.
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LRB letter: ‘Weather-forecasting frogs’
On the unlikely 17th and 18th-century German fashion of keeping tree frogs to forecast the weather.
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The great Darwin fossil hunt
For my 50th birthday, a friend beyond compare organised a very special birthday present for the only self-confessed ‘Darwin groupie’ in her life.