{"id":33827,"date":"2011-04-09T16:00:33","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T16:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/i%e2%80%99ve-got-your-missing-links-right-here-9-april-2011-not-exactly-rocket-science\/"},"modified":"2011-04-09T16:00:33","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T16:00:33","slug":"i%e2%80%99ve-got-your-missing-links-right-here-9-april-2011-not-exactly-rocket-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/i%e2%80%99ve-got-your-missing-links-right-here-9-april-2011-not-exactly-rocket-science.php","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve got your missing links right here (9 April 2011) | Not Exactly Rocket Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4a0d6_Antarctica.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4279\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4a0d6_Antarctica.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"258\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>UK readers: exciting new science writing competition opens<\/strong><\/p><p>Fantastic! Bravo! The Guardian and Wellcome Trust have launched <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/gDFqaN\">a new science writing prize<\/a> for young talent. A similar prize (now defunct) organised by Roger Highfield at the Daily Telegraph helped to kickstart my career. All aspiring UK science communicators should enter this. Read <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/eWFLOl\">Alok Jha&rsquo;s advice<\/a> too.<\/p><p><strong>Top thirteen picks<\/strong><\/p><p>Douglas Fox tells the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/gItuM9\">story behind the story of his Antarctica features<\/a> (with pitch letters too). A must-read for journalists and people who like good things.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/n.pr\/hrVYHJ\">The Man Who Dreamed He Was A Beetle<\/a>. Robert Krulwich&rsquo;s touching obituary for Tom Eisener.<\/p><p>&ldquo;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/ZtaZV7d\">The anti-nuclear movement<\/a>&hellip;has misled the world about the impacts of radiation on human health.&rdquo; George Monbiot does an about-turn of opinion faced with evidence (or a lack of it) &ndash; the essence of good scepticism. In his own blog, he shouts &ldquo;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/ia1DRI\">Citation needed<\/a>&rdquo; at the anti-nuclear industry<\/p><p>&ldquo;The bacterial cause of cholera, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/gcusxH\">rendered effectively untreatable<\/a>. Think about that for a moment.&rdquo; Maryn McKenna on NDM-1 in New Delhi water and sewage<\/p><p>What do you do <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/is.gd\/UZC2Zd\">if your pilot gets sucked out the cockpit window<\/a>? A truly harrowing account.<\/p><p>Superb post ...<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4a0d6_yosUUqD5RX0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4a0d6_ApllDpGun_Y\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK readers: exciting new science writing competition opensFantastic! Bravo! The Guardian and Wellcome Trust have launched a new science writing prize for young talent. A similar prize (now defunct) organised by Roger Highfield at the Daily Telegraph helped to kickstart &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/i%e2%80%99ve-got-your-missing-links-right-here-9-april-2011-not-exactly-rocket-science.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}