Old writer on the block

The writing diary of a well-mellowed science writer who cares about the public understanding of science and knows the ropes. This blog bounces between my curiosity, the daily realities of professional writing, the joy of pursuing nature, and my recycling of ideas that won't be in some book or other as far as I can see, but still needed sharing. I welcome comments and suggestions! Spam will be blocked and reported. For my books, see http://members.ozemail.com.au/~macinnis/writing/index.htm

Wednesday, 1 September 2021

The binomial theorem and herd immunity

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Godfrey Hardy once called out another statistician's faulty analysis of Mendelian genetics, writing: "A little mathematics of the m...
Saturday, 28 August 2021

Back among the monsters

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Note added 4 September 2022: the former publisher returned all rights to me, and there will be things happening by the end of the month. Che...
Monday, 16 August 2021

A cretinous critic: William B Palmer

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William B Palmer is about to learn that making outrageously untrue statements about my work carries a cost. I have granted myself permission...

Australian history

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The past 18 months of pandemic bungling have seen me staying closer to home, and pondering stuff. I'm not getting any younger, so I have...
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Saturday, 14 August 2021

One hundred questions for Book Week

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 Yes, I notice that the answers aren't here. This will, I am sure, annoy a few clever children. When I was a student teacher, more than ...
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Peter Macinnis
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Peter Macinnis turned to writing after his promising career as a chiaroscuro player was tragically cut short by a caravaggio crash during the Trompe L'Oeil endurance race. He recently did remarkably well in the early rounds of the celebrity underwater cooking program, Moister Chef, but he was disqualified for using dried fruits and desiccated coconut. He has a pet leech named Gladys, which has lived in a container on his desk for the last six months, as part of another book, and he is an expert echidna handler and ant lion wrangler. He wrote both the score and the libretto for the acclaimed opera Manon Troppo.

Sorry, that’s not quite right. I write and sometimes broadcast about science, for young and old. I write mainly about science, environment, or social history for both adults and children, depending on how the fit takes me on a given morning. I usually have one book coming back after editing or in production, one being edited, one being written and one or more being actively researched.
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