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A Q&A about my job and science journalism

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A couple weeks ago, some students from a university in South India got in touch to ask a […]

November 27, 2020 Scicomm

Why scientists should read more

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The amount of communicative effort to describe the fact of a ball being thrown is vanishingly low. It’s […]

August 29, 2020 Scicomm

Google Docs: A New Hope

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I suspect the Google Docs grammar bot is the least useful bot there is. After hundreds of suggestions, […]

January 14, 2020 Analysis

The usefulness of good grammar

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Why is good grammar important? In the Indian mainstream media at least, it appears that readers won’t penalise […]

July 10, 2019 Culture, Op-eds

The unclosed clause and other things about commas

The Baffler carried a fantastic critique of The New Yorker‘s use of commas by Kyle Paoletta on August […]

August 24, 2017 Analysis, Life notes, Op-eds
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