{"id":27701,"date":"2010-08-08T15:00:15","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/an-introduction-to-the-microbiome-not-exactly-rocket-science\/"},"modified":"2010-08-08T15:00:15","modified_gmt":"2010-08-08T15:00:15","slug":"an-introduction-to-the-microbiome-not-exactly-rocket-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/an-introduction-to-the-microbiome-not-exactly-rocket-science.php","title":{"rendered":"An introduction to the microbiome | Not Exactly Rocket Science"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is the first of what I hope will be a new series on this blog, providing an overview of key topics that I find myself drawn to again and again.<\/p>

The idea for this has been germinating for a while now, not least because it seemed a shame that old posts get forgotten in the mists of time. Much has been written about the importance of context in modern science journalism – providing the necessary background so that readers can put new discoveries in their broader context. To achieve this, I considered doing topic pages like those that many newspaper sites do, but I (and others) find the automated nature of these pages to be ultimately unfulfilling. You need some sort of human editorial control to make them useful.<\/p>

At a recent blogging talkfest, someone in the audience asked about whether blog posts could be aggregated into an educational resource, like a textbook. The idea seemed promising but the disparity of style across different blogs, and the rubbish quality of most blog search engines, makes this a difficult venture. But these primers, hopefully, address these shortcomings – the idea is that I will take old material and re-edit them into a coherent tour through an exciting topic. The tour will take the form of an online slide show, as powered by Discover’s cool slide technology.<\/p>

Let me know your thoughts.<\/p>

(PS – Credit to Ferris Jabr for suggesting the name “The Yong and Short of It. In the end I went for something simple, but I might use that in the future \";-)\" <\/p>

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