Where do story ideas come from?

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The answer can be anywhere, according to this exchange on The Open Notebook, partly funded by NASW. Nature features editor Brendan Maher: "It will rarely be one single piece of evidence, but rather one or two things heard in passing (i.e. reading a paper, or talking with a trusted regular source at a meeting, or having a random conversation on a plane, or seeing a single line in a news story that makes you go, “Huh. I wonder if there’s something more to that!”).

March 7, 2012

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