This is the first of a new monthly strand of Little Atoms interviews in which Neil Denny talks to the hosts of some of his favorite podcasts. Ken Plume is the proprietor of A Site Called Fred, and the host of numerous podcasts. An expert, some would say an obsessive, on British and American comedy, Ken […]
January 18, 2013
Caspar Henderson is a journalist and writer who has worked for the Financial Times, the Independent, and the New Scientist. From 2002 to 2005 he was a senior editor at OpenDemocracy. He received the Roger Deakin Award from the Society of Authors in 2009, and the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award in 2010. Caspar Henderson […]
December 21, 2012
Aaron James holds a PhD from Harvard and is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. Aaron has published in several professional journals, including Philosophy and Public Affairs and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and has given numerous lectures at universities both in the US and abroad. He was awarded the Burkhardt fellowship from […]
December 7, 2012
Michael Nevin is one of the country’s most experienced and respected applied economists. After working as an economist for the Government of St Lucia in the late 1970’s, he worked as an investment analyst with the Commonwealth Development Corporation in London in the early 1980’s. He returned to the UK in 1986 to serve as Financial […]
November 30, 2012
Jesse Bering is a regular contributor to Scientific American and Slate, and his writing has also been featured in many other sources, including New York Magazine, The Guardian and The New Republic. Jesse is the former director of the Institute of Cognition and Culture at Queen’s University, Belfast and began his career as a psychology professor […]
November 23, 2012
Matthew Hutson has a degree in cognitive neuroscience from Brown University and a Masters in science writing from MIT. He’s written for The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Wired, Discover, Scientific American Mind, Popular Mechanics, The Boston Globe,and Psychology Today, where he spent four years as an editor. Matthew is the author of The 7 Laws of Magical […]
November 16, 2012
Jonnie Hughes is a filmmaker in the BBC Natural History Unit and Head of Development for BBC Earth. His documentaries have been shown on the BBC, Discovery and National Geographic Channel. He studied ecology and evolution at the University of Leeds. Jonnie’s first book is On the Origin of Tepees: Why Some Ideas Spread While Others Go […]
November 9, 2012
Conor Woodman is an economist, author, film-maker and presenter. He is the author of Around the World in 80 Trades – which had an accompanying four-part television series for Channel 4. His most recent book was Unfair Trade: How Big Business Exploits the World’s Poor – and Why it Doesn’t Have to, which we discussed on a previous episode of Little […]
November 2, 2012
Giles Sparrow studied Astronomy at University College London, and Science Communication at Imperial College. He is the author of The Universe and How to See It, The Planets and Hubble:Window on the Universe, which was published to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope, and which we talked about on a previous Little Atoms. His latest […]
October 26, 2012
Daniel Bor is a research fellow at the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science and the Department of Informatics at the University of Sussex. Previously he spent more than a decade working as a cognitive neuroscientist in the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge. In this episode of Little Atoms we discuss Daniel’s book The […]
January 25, 2013
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