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Articles by Bill Hanage

Essay
Unleashing viral apocalypse
Just how important is health and safety?
Bill Hanage 14 July 2014
Essay
Net gain
On crowd-sourcing scientific research funding
Bill Hanage 23 May 2012
Review
Uncomfortable truths
Intuition by Allegra Goodman
Bill Hanage 13 July 2010
Essay
Inner sanctum
From the desk of a scientist
Bill Hanage 27 February 2010
Essay
Schrödinger’s hedge fund
What economics can learn from science
Bill Hanage 28 December 2008
Review
Scientific squabblings
The Tragedy of Thomas Hobbes
Bill Hanage 7 December 2008
Essay
New experiment in the White House
How will science fare under Obama?
Bill Hanage 23 November 2008
Essay
The limits of humanity
Are animal/human hybrids truly inhuman?
Bill Hanage 30 March 2008
Review
The eyes have it
The Last Enemy on BBC1
Bill Hanage 23 March 2008
Essay
Mouthing off: a cautionary tale
What are famous scientists allowed to say?
Bill Hanage 2 December 2007
Essay
Badgered to death
Why is the government's own science adviser ignoring the science?
Bill Hanage 4 November 2007
Essay
It's life, Jim, but as we know it
Deconstructing Craig Venter's latest creation
Bill Hanage 21 October 2007
Essay
A pox on virtual plagues
'Corrupted Blood': valuable scientific tool, or a waste of journal space?
Bill Hanage 30 September 2007
Essay
Super-bugged
Why won't politicians listen to scientists?
Bill Hanage 8 July 2007
Essay
Malignant meat
One cancer scare too far - at least in humans
Bill Hanage 25 March 2007
Review
Extinction coefficient
A Flock of Dodos
Bill Hanage 4 March 2007
Review
Them's fightin' words
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Bill Hanage 5 November 2006
Essay
Steve Irwin’s big sting and other tales
Beyond science pornography
Bill Hanage 30 September 2006
Essay
Undead ringer
What can nuking zombies tell us about infectious disease control?
Bill Hanage 21 August 2006
Review
Into the lion's den
Steve Fuller at 'Skeptics In The Pub'
Bill Hanage 30 July 2006
Essay
Once more, with comprehension
The more sinister side of jargon
Bill Hanage 21 May 2006
Essay
Beyond science fiction
Writers experimenting with reality need to be more daring
Bill Hanage 2 December 2005
Review
Is there a scientist in the House?
House, MD on Fox
Bill Hanage 4 September 2005
Essay
The science that people swallow
Just how 'friendly' are those bacteria, anyway?
Bill Hanage 3 July 2005
Essay
Intelligent Design revamps an old familiar tune
But do people really believe we’ll take it as science?
Bill Hanage 31 March 2005

Coming soon...
- Scenes through a picture window
  
  New science poetry from Peter Roberts
- Interviews
  
  New short fiction from João Ramalho-Santos
- The science of coincidence
  
  New short fiction from Gavin Milnthorpe
- Life reimagined, by Alex and Noah
  
  The next story in our "Young Authors" series!
- The sample
  
  Our next exciting episode of "A Momentary Lapse of Reason"!
Past highlights
- Needs must: The great pipette tip caper
  
  New humorous fiction from Julia RIchards
- After the Delhi rapes, a female scientist from India speaks out
  
  Professional women in India have to work in fear - when will it change?
- Live long and prosper: a brief encounter with Aubrey de Grey
  
  Akshat Rathi meets the man who wants to abolish aging
- A lab wager goes horribly wrong: The 50% Sleeper by Tal Yarkoni
  
  Humorous fiction from the LabLit short story series
- The flying laboratory: stalking the shrinking ice of Antarctica
  
  Scientist Seelye Martin reports live from an airborne mission
- Stardom
  
  Interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson
- The day after today
  
  Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson

In the news
- "LabLit.com founder and editor, Jenny Rohn, is prone to getting excited over 'hard-core lab scenes.' "
  
  LabLit.com picks another great crop of beach reads for NPR
- "These summer reads have scientists at their heart"
  
  Interview of LabLit.com's editor on NPR
- "It's a great venue for aspiring authors to publish their fiction about scientists"
  
  Interview of LabLit.com's editor on 3M Champions of Science podcast
- Novels about scientists highlight passion and (sometimes) failure
  
  Interview of LabLit.com's editor on NPR
- Lab lit - a lesser-known literary genre that tries to portray scientists realistically, beyond the classic lab coat stereotypes
  
  Science in fiction featured in Nature Physics
- Scientists in space - and beyond
  
  Jenny talks lab lit fiction with Mariella Frostrup on Open Book, BBC Radio 4
- The untapped niche is rich in opportunities for originality
  
  Piece about lab lit fiction in Nature
- Lab Lit Revealed: LabLit.com's editor interviewed by Robert Crease
  
  Piece in Physics World
- "Lab lit? What’s that? Not to be confused with science fiction, lab lit refers to novels with scientists as central characters"
  
  NPR discusses LabLit.com and the genre - or lack thereof
- "[R]research developments have been featuring in novels that depict the world as we know it now."
  
  Piece on LabLit in Oxford Today
- "[A] genre of serious fiction with a snappy new name: lab lit...the webzine LabLit.com...has “Lab Lit Lists” for dozens of novels, films, plays and TV shows
  
  The New York Times likes LabLit.com
- 'Lab lit' is a chance to show what we're really like
  
  The New Scientist talks to Jenny
- Light reading
  
  LabLit helps judge Diamond's science short story competition
- Dedicated to "writing about the science environment, stories that take place in the lab"
  
  51stories.com recommends Lablit.com
- "A clever website...LabLit.com breaks new ground in its portrayal of science and scientists"
  
  BioTechniques Webwatch recommends us
- "Another example of 'lab lit' is Experimental Heart...which I’ll put on my 'to read' list"
  
  - The Boston Globe gets into science novels
- "[Scientists] are usually cast as troublemakers and hardly ever get to be true Hollywood heroes"
  
  Jenny dissects the science behind the movie 'Splice' for BBC News
- "Science is a great topic for a novel"
  
  Interview of LabLit's editor in Lab Times
- A lab lit renaissance?
  
  Jenny's essay in Nature about why science in fiction seems on the rise
- "The loveliness of the Lab Lit List"
  
  Author Michael Byers recommends our collection of science novels
- "Science is only one side of the story"
  
  Jenny from LabLit interviews Billy Bragg for Nature news
- "[Lab lit novels] are not just entertaining tales of biologists at work; they also make the reader think about the unique issues"
  
  Nature Methods recommends LabLit.com
- "[One of] 20 great websites that every scientist, engineering, or geek-at-heart ought to know about"
  
  Baltimore Science News Examiner on LabLit.com
- "[C]heck out [LabLit.com] for more reasons to welcome science to literature"
  
  Cell
- "[W]here literary scientists...can find like-minded people"
  
  Chemistry World on LabLit.com
- What is LabLit.com?
  
  Learn more on the Guardian's 'Science Weekly' podcast
- "It's a wonderful venture, and a topic of the most resonant importance"
  
  novelist Richard Powers on LabLit.com
- "FUN: Still life, with test tube"
  
  Science magazine recommends LabLit
- "A light touch and some panache"
  
  LabLit reviewed by The Biochemist
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The science of coincidence

Life reimagined, by Alex and Noah

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