{"id":39728,"date":"2011-09-25T15:48:37","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T15:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/i%e2%80%99m-in-the-best-of-american-science-writing-2011-not-exactly-rocket-science\/"},"modified":"2011-09-25T15:48:37","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T15:48:37","slug":"i%e2%80%99m-in-the-best-of-american-science-writing-2011-not-exactly-rocket-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/i%e2%80%99m-in-the-best-of-american-science-writing-2011-not-exactly-rocket-science.php","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m in the Best of American Science Writing 2011! | Not Exactly Rocket Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d27b0_BestScience2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5431 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d27b0_BestScience2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"379\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>And I&rsquo;m British. Excuse me while I do an evil laugh.<\/p><p>My piece on sushi-digesting genes that hitched a ride from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/notrocketscience\/2010\/04\/07\/gut-bacteria-in-japanese-people-borrowed-sushi-digesting-genes-from-ocean-bacteria\/\">ocean bacteria to Japanese guts<\/a> has been included in this year&rsquo;s anthology.<\/p><p>I&rsquo;m honoured for several reasons. The anthology was edited by the incredible father-and-daughter team of Floyd and Rebecca Skloot, she who wrote one of the best science books of last year. It features writing from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/harperacademic.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/best-american-science-writing-2011-hot.html\">some of the best in the business<\/a> like <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/2011\/09\/23\/best-of-american-science-writing-2011-now-with-extra-bloggy-goodness\/\">Carl Zimmer<\/a> and Deborah Blum. And I&rsquo;m proud to represent the fine world of science blogging in an anthology that&rsquo;s traditionally dominated by mainstream publications; this is actually the first time a blog has been included. Represent!<\/p><p>The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Best-American-Science-Writing-2011\/dp\/0062091247\">book will be released on 27th September<\/a> in the US and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Best-American-Science-Writing-2011\/dp\/0062091247\/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1316796808&amp;sr=8-3\">20 October <\/a>in the UK. Thanks to the Skloots for including me and congrats to my fellow nominees.<\/p><p>My only regret is that my attempt to sneak &ldquo;favourite&rdquo; into an American book was foiled by an eagle-eyed editor.<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d27b0_Ew2yF6NDK1k\" 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\/d27b0_Mo9DvVWMQvc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And I&rsquo;m British. Excuse me while I do an evil laugh.My piece on sushi-digesting genes that hitched a ride from ocean bacteria to Japanese guts has been included in this year&rsquo;s anthology.I&rsquo;m honoured for several reasons. The anthology was edited &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/i%e2%80%99m-in-the-best-of-american-science-writing-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-39728","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\/39728"}],"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=39728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}