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Introducing Time: A Graphic Guide |
Icon Books |
We make a big thing in our review of the
'Introducing' series that these books are marmite. You love them or hate
them. Here is an extract from one of the books to get a file for why we feel
this way. |
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A Grand and Bold Thing |
Ann Finkbeiner |
Interview with Ann Finkbeiner, author of A
Grand and Bold Thing, the story of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. |
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Nanobots |
Brian Clegg |
In an extract from his book Armageddon
Science, the Popular Science editor Brian Clegg looks at what nanobots are. |
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Using Science Fiction to Stimulate Interest in Science Fact |
Douglas E. Richards |
Science popularizer Douglas Richards argues
that Science Fiction is a great way to get kids interested in science
itself. |
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Chemistry in its element |
Brian Clegg |
Part of the Royal Society of Chemistry series
of podcasts featuring short talks on each of the chemical elements. |
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Waterstones, Science Museum |
Brian Clegg |
Portrait of an unusual book store |
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The Sun is Dying & Global Dimming |
Brian Cox |
Mini-features: one on the dying of the Sun,
Dark Matter and Q-balls, the other on the effect of pollutants causing
global dimming, from Brian Cox, particle physicist at CERN and science
advisor to the movie Sunshine. |
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The View from the Centre of the Universe |
Joel Primack & Nancy Ellen
Abram |
After thousands of years
of abstract theorizing, cosmology is finally coming close to a testable theory
to explain the nature of the universe. Abrams and Primack argue we need the
modern equivalent of a creation myth to help fix the new cosmological ideas in
our minds. |
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| The God Effect Updated |
Brian Clegg |
Quantum entanglement is a remarkable physical phenomenon that seems to
allow to particles to be separated to opposite sides of the universe, yet a
change to one is instantly reflected in the other. As it is a field where
new breakthroughs are happening all the time there's an need for regular
updates. |
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The Life and Hard Times of an Armchair Scientist |
Peter Forbes |
In researching his book on bio-inspiration, The Gecko's Foot,
Peter Forbes made a discovery of his own – his idea has now born fruit, but
not quite in the way he'd hoped. The remarkable story of gecko's foot
tape... |
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Climate Change Begins at Home |
Dave Reay |
We don't need to start chanting on hills or
cooking up nettle soup - but each one of us can reduce our lifetime
contribution to global warming by over 1,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas...
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Rethinking Efficiency |
Andrew Price |
Society is addicted to efficiency at all
costs, without recognizing the hidden value of the ‘unessential’ for
performance. Robustness does much more than help keep things going. |
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When Science Fiction is Science Fact |
George Pendle |
The links between science and science fiction are often strong - the
author of Strange Angel describes the uproar in 1945 when a science
fiction magazine pre-empted the atomic bomb. |
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A Scientist in Middle Earth |
Henry Gee |
The author of The Science of Middle Earth
shows why the old master of fantasy was not as detached from science as many
imagine. |
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Killer Wallpaper |
Andrew Meharg |
A fascinating insight into the way arsenic
colouring in wallpapers and fabrics proved a hazard to Victorian workers and
literary figures alike. |
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The Checkerboard Optical Illusion |
Edward Adelson |
We've recently reviewed a book about shadows -
here's the most impressive optical illusion we've ever seen, which depends
on our perception of shadow to work. Stunning. |
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The Loom that Wove the Future |
James Essinger |
Did you know that the computer on your
desktop, in your palm-top, in your mobile phone or in any one of numerous
domestic appliances in your home is the descendent of a loom invented in
1804? Find out more... |
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Feynman got it wrong! |
Brian Clegg |
Richard Feynman was one of the greatest
scientists of all time, but even his genius had its weak points.
Particularly in his view of early scientist, Roger Bacon. |
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Norman Who? |
Eric Lax |
Norman Heatley, the forgotten figure in the
discovery of penicillin, is revealed in this fascinating article. |
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Ferraris and Goats |
Brian Clegg |
An exploration of one of the most intriguing
probability problems in modern history |
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Tunneling Barriers |
Günter Nimtz |
How can light cross a space in zero time, or
have negative energy? Take an insider's look at the strange world of tunneling... |
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On the trail of Fox Talbot |
Brian Clegg |
A humorous excursion round
Lacock and Lacock Abbey, the rural home of the first photographer |
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Meta Math! The Quest for Omega |
Gregory Chaitin |
The preface of Chaitin's remarkable book on
the joys of mathematics and the discovery of Omega (the book is downloadable
for free) |
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Keeping the number line dry |
Brian Clegg |
A fascinating paradox of
infinity |
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Was the Universe Created by Angels? |
Marcus Chown |
The discovery that it might be possible to
make a universe in the laboratory could have profound implications for the
origin of our Universe |
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Inside the imagination of Aristotle |
Brian Clegg |
How Aristotle regarded
infinity and the clever example he used to show how it could be "potential" |
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Moment of Discovery |
Brian Clegg |
Capturing the excitement of
researching a book in the moment of discovery of a hitherto unknown document |
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Muybridge - the man who stopped time |
Brian Clegg |
An introduction to Eadweard
Muybridge, the remarkable man who invented motion pictures (and killed his
wife's lover) |
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Stalking Muybridge |
Brian Clegg |
Adventures in
Kingston-on-Thames, tracking down sites important to Eadweard Muybridge |
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Twisted Light |
Brian Clegg |
There's always something
new to learn about light. How it can be polarised - with a twist |
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Clegg Hall |
Brian Clegg |
Not popular science, but an
insight into the fascination that got this popular science author writing |
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