LabLit Editorials archive

Coming soon...
- Mrs Oppenheimer's woes
  
  Amy Charles reviews the opera Dr. Atomic
- Earth, the final frontier
  
  More original science poetry from John Thomas Clark
- Art and architecture
  
  Oxford Biochemistry tries something different
- A quick spin
  
  Original short fiction from Julie Ghosh
- Paean to mathematics
  
  Original poetry from Peter Roberts
- Fish out of water
  
  On artist-in-
  residency at London's Science Museum
- ... and more!
Past highlights
- The Day After Today
  
  Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson
- Dr. Flirt
  
  Can a PhD attract women?
- Bad cop
  
  Guardian columnist Ben Goldacre defrocks the pseudoscientists
- Unkind literature
  
  Lewis Wolpert ponders fictional science bad guys
- The Glider
  
  Martin Raff recalls a childhood bust-up
- Marketing lab lit fiction
  
  An experiment with Waterstone's
- Sex in the lab
  
  What's Kat Arney wearing under her white coat?

Editorials archive

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Science as democracy

How much can, and should, non-scientists shape the research agenda?
Jennifer Rohn (4 May '08)
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A day in the life: scientists meet writers

Will this latest forum inspire more lab lit fiction?
Jennifer Rohn (21 Oct '07)
Editorial
MyLab

Nature Network London launches
Jennifer Rohn (25 Mar '07)
Editorial
Dumbed down

On the downplaying of science in the newspapers
Jennifer Rohn (14 May '06)
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The Waterstone’s Challenge, Part Two

Can consumers be enticed to buy ‘lab lit’ fiction? All is revealed!
Jennifer Rohn (5 Feb '06)
Editorial
The White Scourge

Are iPods changing lab culture?
Jennifer Rohn (22 Oct '05)
Editorial
Prove it

A rant on the evolution of emotions reveals core misconceptions
Jennifer Rohn (25 Sep '05)
Editorial
The Waterstone's Challenge

LabLit asked a major bookseller to consider profiling "Lab Lit" novels as an experiment in selling a new "genre" – and they were up for it!
Jennifer Rohn (24 Apr '05)
Editorial
Welcome to LabLit.com

Our lights are now on!
Jennifer Rohn (7 Mar '05)

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  LabLit's editor reviews 3 novels in Nature
- Behind the scenes
  
  Q&A of LabLit's editor in Nature
- "Image and imagination: overhauling the reputation of scientists"
  
  LabLit's editor in Laboratory News
- "LabLit is all about encouraging the use of realistic depictions of science and scientists in realistic fiction"
  
  Scott Keir, Nature Network London
- "Why aren't white coats sexy?"
  
  LabLit's editor writes in The Biochemist
- "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
- "Experimental fiction"
  
  LabLit's editor talks fiction in Nature
- "A light touch and some panache"
  
  LabLit reviewed by The Biochemist