For some reason, I’ve only just discovered the navel-gazing blogger meme that started at Nature Network a few weeks ago. But I’ve written up a shed-load of science this week and I’m feeling lazy and introspective. So better late than never…

Not Exactly Rocket Science is a news site crossed with a popular science book crossed with an excitable, precocious and eloquent child jumping up and down and pointing at things that are cool. I care about making science understandable and interesting to non-scientists and about good writing. Any topic is fair game, but a general rule of needing to understand the primary paper of whatever I’m writing about means that I’m essentially limited to biological matters. That, of course,