by Philipp Steger

Dear Reader,

Learning “by the seats of one’s pants”, an American expression I had until recently been unfamiliar with, came up quite frequently during the many conversations I had in the course of preparing an article about science journalists in the USA. Because this is how most of them apparently learn their profession: by the seats of their pants.

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