The Ed's Up #182
Octopuses Do Something Really Strange to Their Genes "Octopuses and their relatives—the cephalopods—practice a type of genetic alteration called RNA editing...
The Ed's Up #181
Bill and Ed's Excellent Adventure Apparently, when you're the richest man in the world, and you like someone's book, you can fly them over for a chat! Which...
The Ed's Up #180
A 130-Year-Old Fact About Dinosaurs Might Be Wrong "For most of my life, I’ve believed that the dinosaurs fell into two major groups: the lizard-hipped...
The Ed's Up #179
I took a brief hiatus from newslettering so you get a bumper issue this week. Enjoy! The GOP’s New Bill Would Seriously Disrupt Genetics Research "But if...
The Ed's Up #178
How Brain Scientists Forgot That Brains Have Owners "He and his fellow curmudgeons argue that brains are special because of the behavior they...
The Ed's Up #177
Book news I'm delighted to be a finalist for the LA Times Book Prizes, in the Science and Technology category, alongside books like Luke Dittrich's Patient...
The Ed's Up #176
The Life, Times, and Departure of Bao Bao the Panda "Next to us is a white metal crate—four feet high, and six feet long. The FedEx logo is emblazoned on the...
The Ed's Up #175
Roses are red Violets are blue Vaccinate your kids This Crab Clones Its Allies by Ripping Them in Half "The American novelist S. E. Hinton once said, “If you...
The Ed's Up #174 - immigration bans, frog tongues, and sleeping brains.
Trump’s Immigration Ban Is Already Harming American Science “Many talented friends of mine can’t come back to finish their degrees, simply because they went...
The Ed's Up #173
Professor Smith Goes to Washington "Many scientists are asking themselves: What can I do? And the answer from a newly formed group called 314 Action is: Get...
The Ed's Up #172
First, as is now self-evident, this newsletter still exists! When I announced last week that I was closing down my blog, Not Exactly Rocket Science, I...
The Ed's Up #171 - a goodbye, and then the usual.
First, a farewell... Everything ends, so let’s start there. Effective immediately, I’m closing down my blog, Not Exactly Rocket Science. I’m not going...
The Ed's Up #170
So, that happened... An Ingenious Experiment of Jungle Bats and Evolving Artificial Flowers "And here’s the wonderful bit: Nachev and Winter allowed the...
The Ed's Up #169 - The Bye-Bye 2016 Edition
This has been a tumultuous, paradoxical year—one of lost icons and unsettling events. For me, it’s also been a year of personal happiness and professional...
The Ed's Up Holiday Special (#168)
There are no links, to my pieces or anyone else’s, in this edition of The Ed’s Up. Instead, a short story. A few weeks ago, in the dead of night defeated by...
The Ed's Up #167
How a Pandemic Might Play Out Under Trump "Infectious diseases are emerging faster than ever before. By encroaching into the territories of wild animals, we...
The Ed's Up #166
Busy Times at the World’s Largest Polar Bear Prison "Built in 1982, the facility has space for 28 inmates, and has held over 2,000 to date. When the time is...
The Ed's Up #165
Giraffes Edge Closer to Extinction "This is a recurring theme in the natural world: Fragmentation brings disaster. It’s as if the cause of the giraffe’s...
The Ed's Up #164
How Trump Could Wage a War on Scientific Expertise "A Trump administration can easily repeal regulations that were enacted by federal agencies in the final...
The Ed's Up #163
Notable! I'm delighted to say that I Contain Multitudes was selected by the New York Times as one of its 100 notable books of 2016. It's a great list, too. I...