Popular Writing in the Natural Sciences

Unit 3 comes from my love of popular science writing. One science blogger I’ve come to admire is Ed Yong. I’ve taken his blog, Not Exactly Rocket Science, as the theme for our course and the object of this final assignment. Why? Because “The universe is made of stories, not atoms” (Muriel Rukeyser, The Speed of Darkness, 1968). Here are some of their stories…

Emily Barrus, “Germany Goes Green—Environmentally and Economically”
Susana Bracewell, “This is Your Brain on Freestyle Rap”
Danny Cao, “Gaming in the Cloud“
Matt Chancey, “Found It!”
Thalita Cortez, “Bilingual Children are Better Children“
Savanna Fitzgerald, “Baby Sea Turtles: Are They Really Lost at Sea?”
Diana Ford, “Tiny Little Sponges: The Next Big (or Small) Thing”
Hailey Gosnell, “Genetic Testing and Common Disorders in a Public Health Framework”
Apoorva Gupta, “Death from Diagnosis: How the dangers of cancer go beyond the disease itself”
Kevin Jang, “Electric cars, the right vehicle to the future?”
Jocelyn Keung, “A Laughing Matter: The Health Benefits of Laughter”
Matthew Paris, “Between the Crunch and the Bang: An Antigravity Sandwich”
Katie Reeder, “Read My Lips: speech processing differences in children with developmental language disorder”
Tracee Saunders, “The Magic Bullet Approach to AIDS Treatment“
Cailey Solomon, “Sleep Paralysis: A Conscious Nightmare”
Samantha Wall, “Electrocuting your brain could be just what it needs”
Cat Wood, “Invisibility for Muggles? Scientists one-step closer to making non-magical invisibility cloaks a reality”
Zimeng “Parker” Xie, ““TRAPPING” GASES: NOT AS HARD AS YOU THINK”
Louis Zbinden, “Death Star Theory Doomed”