Sciencebase FeedMyReads Q&A #DBQuestions

The excellent author-reader twitter community hosted by FeedMyReads (aka Fraser Stoopman), put out a call for questions from twitter users for me, sciencebase, this week. Fraser has been sharing my answers to the intriguing and amusing questions in a spate of tweets, but I thought I’d post them all in one place for Sciencebase visitors, so here they. Thanks for your questions, especially the fun ones from Sime. Henry Gee – What gets you up in the morning? Usually, a dig in the ribs from my wife expecting a cup of tea and the dulcet tones of Humphrys et al with the news headlines on the radio. And, of course, the urge to share the scientific discoveries I come across in as informative and entertaining way as I can. Oh, and our labrador always needs her breakfast and an exit to her morning constitutional. Charli (BookBlogger) – Have you always wanted to be a writer? Hah, not at all. I always wanted to be a marine biologist and then a physicist, and then a guitar god (still working on that one) but of the sciences I was better academically in chemistry, so I ended up studying in that field and realising quite early on that I couldn’t find a labcoat to fit. Becoming a science journalist seemed to be the happy compromise – I get to “do” science without being an actual scientist – and it’s worked out quite well for me this last (almost) quarter century. What do you eat while you write? Well, I had two (not three Shredded Wheat) ...
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