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The practice and theory of science communication can take many forms. One of them, which this volume represents, explores what forms of knowledge might be constructed when creative writing encounters science. Working outwards from a theoretical framework that sees the sciences as discourses constructed by human endeavour through forms of language and practices of authority, this collection offers writing that emerged from a scientific encounter. It explores the relationship between creativity and scientific experiment, between the languages deployed by scientists in their experiments and analyses and the languages forged by creatives in their ongoing efforts to understand the human condition.

Fic Sci 01 brought eleven creative writers together with a biomechanical engineer. The presented science invited creative enquiry into different aspects of flow, that physical property that is so central to research in fluid mechanics. This anthology collects the results of that encounter.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title page, Copyright page
  2. pp. i-iv
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Acknowledgements
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. 1. Notes from an Invited Scientist
  2. Malebogo Ngoepe
  3. pp. 1-2
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  1. 2. Sizakele to the Blood Ocean
  2. Busisiwe Mahlangu
  3. pp. 3-7
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  1. 3. Igazi Liyathetha
  2. Vuyokazi Ngemntu
  3. pp. 8-15
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  1. 4. Abazindla: The Prologue
  2. Fezeka Mkhabela
  3. pp. 16-20
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  1. 5. Umcimbi Wegazi
  2. Luyolo Vukuza
  3. pp. 21-26
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  1. 6. The Form of the Fibre is Shaped by the Follicle
  2. Jarred Thompson
  3. pp. 27-28
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  1. 7. Fix the Hair, Fix the Child
  2. Sithembiso Khalishwayo
  3. pp. 29-35
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  1. 8. BLOOD/BRAIN/BARRIER: A Mindplay
  2. Nicole Thackwray
  3. pp. 36-46
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  1. 9. Coagulation: A Tribute
  2. Nicole Thackwray
  3. pp. 47-48
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  1. 10. It Comes from Nowhere
  2. Zanta Nkumane
  3. pp. 49-52
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  1. 11. Poems
  2. Jerome Coetzee
  3. pp. 53-54
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  1. 12. Fractals
  2. Wamuwi Mbao
  3. pp. 55-60
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  1. 13. Always in Motion
  2. Alistair Mackay
  3. pp. 61-66
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  1. 14. Artefacts
  2. Mika Conradie
  3. pp. 67-72
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  1. 15. Unrooted
  2. Alistair Mackay
  3. pp. 73-74
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  1. 16. Notes on Boundary and Flow
  2. Mehita Iqani
  3. pp. 75-80
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  1. 17. RatHeart-LoveSong
  2. Nicole Thackwray
  3. pp. 81-82
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  1. 18. lab rat
  2. Jarred Thompson
  3. pp. 83-84
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  1. 19. An Interplay with Flow
  2. Mehita Iqani and Wamuwi Mbao
  3. pp. 85-91
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  1. Biographies
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  1. Back cover
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