Every Living Thing: Man’s Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys
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By , on October 13th, 2010 3 comments   Carnivals & Link Love, Reviews   , , ,  

Another book I just recently finished was Rob Dunn’s masterfully crafted “Every Living Thing: Man’s Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys.” One word could describe this book, impressive. Dunn’s control of language and narrative flow is rarely seen in popular science books. Through the common thread of human’s quest to find, . . . → Read More: Every Living Thing: Man’s Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys

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Science Book Lovers Meme
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By , on February 9th, 2009 9 comments   Reviews   , , , , , , , , , , , ,  

David, aka whysharksmatter, at Southern Fried Science tagged me in the latest internet meme to go around: Science Book Lover’s meme. Unfortunately, I’m still living in temporarily limbo as I’m waiting to close on my house so most of what I own, including my beloved books, has been in storage since last September. So you . . . → Read More: Science Book Lovers Meme

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Science Online ’09: From Blogging to Paying Bills
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By , on January 24th, 2009 6 comments   Conferences   , , , , , , , ,  

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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