Everything ends, so let’s start there. Effective immediately, I’m closing down this blog.

I’m not going anywhere, though; since 2015, I’ve been working at The Atlantic as their first staff science writer, and will now be focusing fully on my writing there.

Having ended, let’s return to the start. I started this blog—Not Exactly Rocket Science—in August 2006, on little more than a whim. It was my first proper foray into science writing. I told my friends that I wanted to get regular practice, and to build up a portfolio of work that I could then show editors. But mainly: I really wanted to write. I had an urge to explain, to describe, to tell stories—an itch that my day job