Articles by Ian Brooks : LabLit.com

Articles by Ian Brooks

Review
Seeing red
Blood Work by Holly Tucker
Ian Brooks 2 January 2012
Review
Running on empty
Petroplague by Amy Rogers
Ian Brooks 28 October 2011
Lab Rats
The art of absence
Some things are more important than science
Ian Brooks 22 June 2010
Review
Redemption song
The Pluto Files by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Ian Brooks 22 February 2009
Interview
Stardom
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on policy, the public and Pluto
Ian Brooks 22 February 2009
Interview
He's here all week, folks
Science comedian Brian Malow
Ian Brooks 2 November 2008
Review
Understanding ID
Only a Theory by Kenneth Miller
Ian Brooks 18 August 2008
Interview
ID busting
Kenneth Miller and the fight for evolution in schools
Ian Brooks 18 August 2008
Review
What it all means
The Origins of the Universe for Dummies
Ian Brooks 8 June 2008
Lab Rats
The rising price of gas
Why life scientists make the best hypochondriacs
Ian Brooks 18 May 2008
Review
Eco-disaster looms
The Doomsday Genie by Frank Ryan
Ian Brooks 13 April 2008
Fiction
The face of god
From the LabLit short story series
Ian Brooks 16 March 2008
Lab Rats
Law and disorder
Legal argumentation gets some scientific scrutiny
Ian Brooks 3 February 2008
Lab Rats
The scientific schmooze
Opportunity-spotting for PhDs in the market for change
Ian Brooks 11 November 2007
Lab Rats
Can't stand the heat?
On the kinship of scientists and chefs
Ian Brooks 29 July 2007
Lab Rats
The gap beneath your feet
Embracing a life in flux
Ian Brooks 6 May 2007
Lab Rats
Blank slate
An episode of grant-induced writer's block
Ian Brooks 11 February 2007
Humor
Boot force
A scientific approach to car maintenance
Ian Brooks 26 November 2006
Lab Rats
Taming your inner geek
'That Guy' on the conference circuit
Ian Brooks 7 October 2006
Profile
The art of healing
Nancy Morgan influences the environment of cancer therapy
Ian Brooks 10 September 2006
Lab Rats
You call this a job?
On the nowhere land of postdoctoral existence
Ian Brooks 28 May 2006
Lab Rats
Deal with it
To a beginner, the languages of poker and science are equally inscrutable
Ian Brooks 1 May 2006
Lab Rats
Working hand to mouth
On the hidden dangers of lab life
Ian Brooks 26 March 2006
Lab Rats
The scientific chat-up
How to lure in the ladies with your PhD (it's got to be good for something)
Ian Brooks 26 February 2006

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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