A transitional piece for me, I think, between the kind of corporate writing I’ve done to now, and the more creative ‘longform’ articles we’ll be doing in the future. Not entirely successful, but getting lots of hits because of the paucity of information about HFMD elsewhere…
Some thoughts on the fly features from my personal blog.
I published two features – well, one pair of linked features – about fruit flies this week. The pieces were in many ways an experiment, and in other ways an indulgence.
The experiment first: we are moving towards more longform feature writing at work and it is probably important that we play with what that might mean in order to learn what we want it to mean or what we are capable of meaning it to mean. The buzzword is ‘explanatory’ writing, but not in the textbook vein: rather, focused on narrative and letting the ‘science’ come through more ‘palatable’ stories of people and their lives. The length is necessary to go into any level of detail; the form is what carries the reader through the detail – and the length.
My features this week did not really tell stories. I mean, the first one related the history of fruit…
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Part 2 of my fly feature pair…
A mammoth feature about fruit flies (1/2)
More history – this time, drawing parallels between the emergence of food allergies as a serious medical issue and hyperactivity as a diagnosis.
A long-form feature about pianos and their (non)-effects on health…
A good old-fashioned scientific conference in the guise of an anniversary party. Includes audacious audio!
The second piece I was actually asked to do in our stroke series – this one looks at rehabilitation research but I was also interested in how such research actually gets implemented.
While researching risk factors for stroke, I found out that more and more researchers are getting interested in the links between small vessel vascular disease and dementia – I got interested too…
I interviewed Shah Ebrahim for my feature on predicting and preventing stroke but he was such an interesting guy that we gave him a slot all to himself…
Michael Regnier 