I reckon one of the best parts of planning any trip is the book time you spend brushing up on your destination. I loved Diego de Landa’s “Yucatan Before and After the Conquest“, which I read in Mexico last year while doing field work in that spectacular peninsula. So it is that I come to . . . → Read More: Twofer book review from the Amazon (the river, not the website)
Microcosmos by Brandon Broll. Click to purchases at amazon.com Microcosmos: Discovering the World Through Microscopic Images from 20 X to Over 22 Million X Magnification by Brandon Broll Microcosmos is a collection of unbelievable microscopic photography from the archives of The Science Photo Library assembled by science journalist Brandon Broll. In a visually fascinating whirlwind, . . . → Read More: Microcosmos: a Celebration of the Very Teensy
By Kevin Zelnio, on  January 24th, 2009 Conferences Book Reviews, Editor, Journalism, Rebecca Skloot, Science Online, Science Writing, scio09, Structure, Tom Levenson The last session of Saturday I spent in a room with ~30 other eager individuals wishing to be imparted magical advice on how to make the leap from blogging (essentially for free for most of us) to getting paid to write articles. The session How to become a (paid) science journalist: advice for bloggers was . . . → Read More: Science Online ’09: From Blogging to Paying Bills
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