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Book Review: Odd Couples: Extraordinary Differences Between the Sexes in the Animal Kingdom, by Daphne Fairbairn
Odd Couples, book cover Since becoming a first-time mum last summer, I’ve become painfully more aware of the sexually-based differences between myself and my husband as we navigate the new-to-us… more →
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Book Review: Odd Couples: Extraordinary Differences Between the Sexes in the Animal Kingdom, by Daphne Fairbairn
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Odd Couples, book cover Since becoming a first-time mum last summer, I’ve become painfully mor … more →
Tricks of the Trade: Narrative Writing
wrote 3 months ago: One of my favorite narrative books: Monster of God, by David Quammen. And look who signed it! Narrat … more →
Author Q&A: On a Farther Shore, the Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, by William Souder
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wrote 4 months ago: On a Farther Shore is an excellent biography of science writer Rachel Carson, whose work many people … more →
Book review: The Best Science Writing Online 2012
wrote 4 months ago: This is a LONG overdue review for the formerly indie anthology known as The Best Science Writing Onl … more →
The Secret World of Red Wolves
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wrote 6 months ago: Yesterday I came home from the Science Writers 2012 conference in Raleigh, N.C. feeling very good ab … more →
The Best Science Writing Online: 2012
wrote 8 months ago: It’s here! The Best Science Writing Online: 2012 is now available in paperback. Many thanks to … more →
Book Review: The Wolverine Way, by Douglas Chadwick
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wrote 9 months ago: The Wolverine Way, by Douglas Chadwick Wolverines are badass animals. That’s probably why Marv … more →
Book writing: lessons learned (the revisionist version)
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wrote 1 year ago: Image from Wiki Commons Last November, when I sent my book manuscript off to my editor at the Univer … more →
Nighttime coyote hunting could harm federally-endangered red wolves
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wrote 1 year ago: A shorter version of this story was published in the Charlotte Observer Sci-Tech pages on April 9, 2 … more →
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
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wrote 1 year ago: Cover of The Tiger, by John Vaillant. Can a tiger hold a vendetta against a person? This is a centra … more →
Cool future for brook trout, even in era of climate change
wrote 1 year ago: Eastern brook trout, photo from Trout Unlimited This article first appeared in the Charlotte Observe … more →
Road salt's second sting
wrote 1 year ago: This is an article I wrote that published in the Charlotte Observer and Raleigh News & Observer … more →
Science writing, in context
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wrote 1 year ago: I’m a slow eater. By the time I’m nearly done with my first helping at dinner, my husban … more →
Open Lab 2012 / The Best of Science Writing Online 2012
wrote 1 year ago: Zeghie Peninsula Ethiopia. (Photo courtesy of David M. Jarze,n, PhD) Simply put, 2011 was not the ea … more →
Book writing: lessons learned
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wrote 1 year ago: Like the young red wolf pup shown here, I had a lot to learn. (Photo courtesy of the Red Wolf Recove … more →
My first book: The Secret World of Red Wolves
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wrote 1 year ago: Captive male red wolf at Sandy Ridge facility, near Columbia, North Carolina. (Photo courtesy of Rya … more →
Advice on science writing careers
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wrote 1 year ago: Awhile back I was contacted by someone from a university (I think it was in the United Kingdom, sham … more →
"Bullets, Bombs and Butterflies," article in Wildlife in North Carolina
wrote 1 year ago: Last summer, I followed around a North Carolina State University PhD student in the woods of Fort Br … more →
Inspired by life in the treetops
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wrote 2 years ago: Meg Lowman poses on the canopy boardwalk tower she helped build at Myakka River State Park near Sara … more →
