Francis Spufford, a former Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, has edited two acclaimed literary anthologies and a collection of essays on the history of technology. His first book, I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination, was awarded the Writers Guild Award for Best Non-Fiction Book of 1996 and a Somerset Maugham […]
October 12, 2012
Aarathi Prasad is a biologist and science writer. She has appeared on TV and radio programmes, including as presenter of Channel 4’s controversial ‘Is It Better to Be Mixed Race?’ and ‘Brave New World with Stephen Hawking’, as well as BBC Radio 4’s ‘The Quest for Virgin Birth’, and written for Wired, the Guardian, and many […]
October 5, 2012
Jon Ronson is an award-winning writer and documentary maker. He is the author of three bestsellers, Them: Adventures with Extremists,The Men Who Stare at Goats and The Psychopath Test, and two collections, Out of the Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday Craziness andWhat I Do: More True Tales of Everyday Craziness. The Men Who Stare at Goats was made into a major […]
September 28, 2012
Bruce Hood is currently the Director of the Bristol Cognitive Development Centre in the Experimental Psychology Department at the University of Bristol. He has been a research fellow at Cambridge University and University College London, a visiting scientist at MIT and a faculty professor at Harvard. The author of Supersense, and most recently The Self Illusion, Bruce also presented […]
September 14, 2012
Game of Life is a compelling new play inspired by the mathematical phenomenon of emergence, running from 5 – 22 September 2012 atThe Yard Theatre, Hackney Wick. In this episode of Little Atoms Neil Denny talks to playwright Rose Lewenstein and director Russell Bender about the production. Rose Lewenstein studied Performance Arts at the Central School of Speech & Drama and participated in the […]
August 17, 2012
Charles Fernyhough is a writer and psychologist. The Baby in the Mirror, his book about his daughter’s psychological development, was translated into seven languages. He has also written two novels, The Auctioneer a A Box of Birds. He is a Reader in Psychology at Durham University and has written for the Guardian, Financial Times and Sunday Telegraph. His latest book is Pieces […]
August 10, 2012
Andrew Blum writes about Architecture, infrastructure and technology for many publications, including the New Yorker, The New York Times, Slate and Popular Science. He is a correspondent for Wired and a contributing editor to Metropolis. His first book is Tubes: Behind the Scenes at the Internet.
July 20, 2012
Alom Shaha was born in Bangladesh but grew up in London. A teacher, writer and filmmaker, he has spent most of his professional life trying to share his passion for science and education with the public. Alom has produced, directed and appeared in a number of television programmes, and has received fellowships from the National […]
July 9, 2012
Richard Martin is an energy expert and an award winning journalist. He was the first person to write about Thorium in the mainstream press, His cover story for Wired inspired Google to launch a conference on Thorium that led to several high-tech startups. As a journalist his work has appeared in Time, Fortune, Wired, The […]
June 29, 2012
Greg Palast turned his skills to journalism after two decades as a top investigator of corporate fraud and racketeering. His reports have appeared on Newsnight and in the Guardian, Rolling Stone and Harper’s. He is a recipient of the George Orwell Courage in Journalism Award for his BBC documentary, Bush Family Fortunes. Greg Palast is the […]
October 19, 2012
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