A Sun Mountain Award For Ed at Not Exactly Rocket Science

Ed Yong is a man to watch. In 2004, 2005, and again in 2006, Ed was a runner up for The Daily Telegraph’s Science Writer Awards. In 2007 he won first place.

In August of 2006, Ed began blogging on WordPress.com. Within sixteen months, ScienceBlogs invited him to blog for the world’s “largest online community dedicated to science.”

People have said wonderful things about Ed. Over and again, folks ranging from laymen to professional scientists have praised both the clarity and the accuracy of his science writing. In an extraordinary vote of confidence, the editor of the journal Nature went so far as to personally recommend Ed’s blog to Sir David Attenborough. Yet, in by far the most important comment ever to be made about his blog, I myself described it as, “So well written it could pass for literature.”

Ed is a man to read. If he were a novelist, his style would compete with Ernest Hemingway’s for clarity and precision. He describes himself as on a mission to beat “jargon, confusion and elitism with the stick of good writing”, and it’s a mission at which he succeeds.

Given a little luck, Ed will be a famous science writer someday. So, I am extraordinarily proud of my good sense and foresight in offering him the uncoveted Sun Mountain Award. Please do drop by his blog, Not Exactly Rocket Science, and treat yourself to the best science writing I’ve yet to find on the net.

Thank you for an outstanding blog, Ed!

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I Hereby Tag Ed Yong!