Articles by João Ramalho-Santos : LabLit.com

Articles by João Ramalho-Santos

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Panel
From the LabLit short story series
João Ramalho-Santos 13 August 2018
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Statistics
From the LabLit short story series
João Ramalho-Santos 2 January 2018
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Museum
From the LabLit short story series
João Ramalho-Santos 23 November 2016
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Names
From the LabLit short story series
João Ramalho-Santos 10 January 2016
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Wrong
From the LabLit short story series
João Ramalho-Santos 6 March 2015
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Right
From the LabLit short story series
João Ramalho-Santos 6 March 2015
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Vehicle
From the LabLit short story series
João Ramalho-Santos 4 December 2014
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Sales
From the LabLit short story series
João Ramalho-Santos 27 July 2014
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Blind
From the LabLit short story series
João Ramalho-Santos 11 February 2014
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Normal
From the LabLit short story series
João Ramalho-Santos 16 September 2012
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Meetings
From the LabLit short story series
João Ramalho-Santos 5 November 2011
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Co-authors
From the LabLit short story series
João Ramalho-Santos 25 April 2011
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Controls
From the LabLit short story series
João Ramalho-Santos 12 March 2011
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Trash
From the LabLit short story series
João Ramalho-Santos 23 August 2010
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Lineage
From the LabLit short story series
João Ramalho-Santos 1 June 2010
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Authors
From the LabLit short story series
João Ramalho-Santos 24 August 2009
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Labels
From the LabLit short story series
João Ramalho-Santos 19 July 2009
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Nature
From the LabLit short story series
João Ramalho-Santos 12 April 2009
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Suit: Part II
From the LabLit short story series
João Ramalho-Santos 5 October 2008
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Suit: Part I
From the LabLit short story series
João Ramalho-Santos 28 September 2008
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Heat, Part III
From the LabLit short story series
João Ramalho-Santos 8 June 2008
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Heat, Part II
From the LabLit short story series
João Ramalho-Santos 1 June 2008
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Heat, Part I
From the LabLit short story series
João Ramalho-Santos 26 May 2008
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Experiment, Part II
From the LabLit fiction series
João Ramalho-Santos 20 April 2008
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Experiment, Part I
From the LabLit fiction series
João Ramalho-Santos 13 April 2008
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Limbo
From the LabLit Short Story Series
João Ramalho-Santos 20 January 2008
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Reunion
From the LabLit short story series
João Ramalho-Santos 23 December 2007
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Tribute: Part 2
From the LabLit short story series
João Ramalho-Santos 8 July 2007
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Tribute: Part 1
From the LabLit short story series
João Ramalho-Santos 1 July 2007
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Collaboration
From the LabLit short story series
João Ramalho-Santos 10 June 2007

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

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  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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