The Best Australian Science Writing 2011

by Stephen Pincock (Editor), Peter C. Doherty (Foreword)

Dynamic and informative, this anthology examines science topics both macrocosmic and microscopic. Featuring both young, unpublished writers as well as renowned Australian writers and thinkers—such as Paul Davies, Tim Flannery, Anna Funder, and Germaine Greer—this account includes insightful and powerful selections of important writing about science and nature.

Genres: Nonfiction

224 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2011

Reviews

[Bec · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting and worth a read. I especially liked the essay on the war on science, Science without a capital S, that explained in simple terms how misinformation gets reported as it seem as though the news organisations are balanced, when science can't be reported accurately in this way. The subject just came up on the weekly with Charlie Pickering so it's just as relevant 6 years later. We as a people still don't seem to understand who benefits from denying climate change, and that's people making money out of fossil fuels. There's also a good one about fruit bats & Germaine informing English Guardian readers how Queenslanders keep getting hit by flooding rains with little changing in building regulations or community attitudes in preparing for flooding, the magnitude is always surprising even though it's a predictable event. The article on lice was informative, as the parent of a girl who lives in the nit capital of Australia -and Aust may be the nit capital of the world according to this article- I have both a fear and respect of nits. It does seem to be the case that nits are becoming immune to the nit remedies we use. A couple weren't that interesting for me, but I won't say which ones they were. I will search out the other books in the series.

[Nikki Balzer · Rating 4 out of 5]

will go and find more of these to read , even as a layman I found many of these interesting to read.