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It's too hot to think, but here is some science
The heat really does hit differently in the UK, but I struggled through it to bring you a newsletter
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Zines about '90s science problems
Making zines like it's the '90s. But it's not the '90s, because we (mostly) sorted out the ozone hole, acid rain and Y2K bug now.
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Scientific peanut butter
How I got obsessed with standard reference peanut butter. Also, an update on those wolves that are not dire at all, and some cool links.
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Music and science
A dancing sea lion and why I haven’t written a book about music and science
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New colours, brains making music, and more
Interesting and intriguing science links
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Zines about '90s science problems
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Is BlueSky the new “Science Twitter” for real this time?
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Sad trombone?
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Ecology from paintings
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How to make a dire wolf
Or at least, how to understand how scientists make something sort of like a dire wolf
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My book turned one!
It's exactly one year since the launch of Hey There's Science In This. To celebrate, you get to read one chapter for free in today's Mixture.
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AI does not understand anything
AI is a tool and scientists are doing some amazing things with it, but it doesn’t know anything on its own. It is important to me that you know this so…
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My least favourite thing about freelance science writing
And interesting links, books, and more.
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Mr Darwin, you make me blush
A revival of a very old blog post, just for Valentine's Day!
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Geology of the channel tunnel
The Channel Tunnel carefully follows a chalk layer and avoids ancient waterfall plunge pools. Thousands of years ago, there was a land bridge, but now…
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The Broad Street pump and other science things
A whole new year for science links and other things
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