Tag: science writing

• Happy birthday, Carl Sagan!

  Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. – Carl Sagan, born November 9, 1934 Like many science writers, I count Carl Sagan as one of my inspirations and influences. However, I think there’s a tendency to mourn his absence (he died relatively young) in the wrong way: by negatively contrasting current science communicators with…

  Matthew R. Francis

  November 9, 2012

  Galileo’s Pendulum, Writing for Other Sites

  Carl Sagan, science writing

• Happy Ada Lovelace Day!

  For Ada Lovelace Day, I compiled a list of many of the best science writers I know: Last year, I celebrated Emmy Noether, perhaps the greatest mathematician of the 20th century. This year (largely because I’m swamped with other work), I’m stealing a great idea from Ed Yong, and celebrating living writers who are my…

  Matthew R. Francis

  October 16, 2012

  Galileo’s Pendulum, Science outreach, Writing for Other Sites

  Ada Lovelace Day, science writing, women in science