The Science and Art of Science Writing

From The New York Times:

I blame a rattlesnake for my career. Fifteen years ago, my brand-new college biology degree qualified me for a series of minimum-wage jobs looking for strange animals in strange places. The work was temporary, itinerant and, as soldiers say of war, alternately boring and excessively thrilling. But the scenery was unbeatable. During a stint with a university research project in the desert near Tucson, Ariz., I got to hike through saguaro forests from dawn to sunset.

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