The Best Australian Science Writing 2011

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 Featuring both young, unpublished writers as well as renowned Australian writers and thinkerssuch as Paul Davies, Tim Flannery, Anna Funder, and Germaine Greerthis account includes insightful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

Stephen Pincock is an author and science journalist who has written for international publications including, the Australian, the Financial Times, the Lancet, Nature, and New Scientist. Peter Doherty is a veterinary surgeon and medical researcher. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine—jointly with Rolf M. Zinkernagel—and is a recipient of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. He was named the 1997 Australian of the Year.

Advisory Panel	p. viii
Contributors	p. x
Foreward	p. 1
Introduction	p. 6
Bad hotel	p. 12
Science without a capital S	p. 17
You should probably just move oceans, male Gulf pipefish	p. 28
The trouble with genes	p. 32
There is no mercury in vaccines	p. 44
Is your brain making you fat?	p. 46
It's time to talk	p. 50
To save a species	p. 62
Birth of a killer	p. 68
Lousy science	p. 75
A fresh look at Earth	p. 79
How to keep the river flowing	p. 93
Blame it on the Stones	p. 98
In the age of fishes	p. 106
Tiger by the tail	p. 111
Gone viral	p. 118
Skin feeders	p. 122
Once were dinosaurs	p. 126
Australian floods	p. 141
No escaping the science	p. 148
How aqua regia saved Nobel Prize medals from the Nazis	p. 158
Extremes of sound	p. 162
String theory ties us in knots	p. 180
Deepak Chopra	p. 183
Twinkling stars	p. 188
Flesh and stardust	p. 192
Is anybody out there?	p. 208
Acknowledgments	p. 220
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