It changed the nature of what they were writing.

BBC: Entertainment & Arts

But for Styron the Holocaust was an act of man, however terrible, and writing was a means to control and mediate the nature of the world.

ECONOMIST: William Styron

Although Mr Kneese was by nature a warmly friendly man there is in much of his writing a sense of anxiety about the future, and of the growing gap between the rich and the poor.

ECONOMIST: Allen Kneese

IR I am writing to protest about the out-of-date nature of your October 23rd cover.

ECONOMIST: Letters

Writing in the journal Nature, researchers from the Geological Survey of India suggest that the increasing use of phosphate fertilisers might play a part.

BBC: By Helen Sewell of BBC Science

Even if such a wording were possible (which it is not, given the nature of Britain's constitution), Mr Dewar still has problems with writing the rules by which the parliament can use its intended power to vary basic-rate income tax by up to 3p.

ECONOMIST: Devolution

Writing in the journal Nature in 2007, researchers found that concentrations of the greenhouse gas near the ground also damaged plants sensitive to the gas, reducing their effectiveness to absorb carbon dioxide.

BBC: Invasive plant 'increases ozone pollution'

Writing in the journal Nature, Kate Spence shows that the orientation errors of earlier and later pyramids faithfully track the slow drift of Kochab and Mizar with respect to true north.

BBC: Pyramids lined up with the stars

Twentysomething writing shines in its raw, winking, Zeitgeist intimacy, but the nature of that intimacy changes less than one might think.

NEWYORKER: Semi-Charmed Life

Catherine Rampell has been writing a series of excellent posts on The New York Times Economix blog about the curious nature of human happiness.

FORBES: Why Money Does Equal Happiness