Kitty Ferguson was born in San Antonio, Texas. She now divides her time between South Carolina and Cambridge. An experienced science writer, her previous books include The Fire in the Equations, Measuring the Universe, The Nobleman and his Housedog, Stephen Hawking: Quest for a Theory of Everything and Pythagoras: His Lives and the Legacy of a Rational Universe. Her latest book […]
November 18, 2011
Adam Macqueen has been a hack at Private Eye magazine (on and off ) for 14 years. He was assistant, deputy and finally acting editor of The Big Issue between 1999 and 2002. He’s on the editorial team of Popbitch.com, and was an associate producer on Adam Curtis’s BBC series All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace. […]
November 11, 2011
Professor Lisa Randall is a theoretical particle physicist and cosmologist at Harvard University. Randall’s studies have made her among the most cited and influential theoretical physicists. She also has a public presence through her writing, lectures, and radio and TV appearances. Her book Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions was included in the New York Times’ […]
November 4, 2011
Manjit Kumar was the founding editor of Prometheus, an interdisciplinary journal that covered the arts and sciences, described by one reviewer as ‘perhaps the finest magazine that I’ve ever read’. He has written and reviewed for various publications including the Guardian, The Times, The Independent and New Scientist. Manjit’s book Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great […]
October 24, 2011
This was the first in a series of events at the Bishopsgate Institute curated by Little Atoms under the theme Whose Mind is it Anyway? The modernist architecture espoused by communism explicitly promoted the ethos of collective living. It could also be argued that shopping centres encourage you to shop, parks persuade you to linger, local shops enhance […]
October 14, 2011
Misha Glenny is a distinguished journalist and historian. Misha’s latest book is DarkMarket: CyberThieves, CyberCops and You. As the Central Europe Correspondent first for the Guardian and then for the BBC, he chronicled the collapse of communism and the wars in the former Yugoslavia. He won the Sony Gold Award for outstanding contribution to broadcasting. The author […]
October 7, 2011
On this week’s show QI’s Director of Research John Mitchinson returns to Little Atoms to talk about Unbound, his exciting new crowd-funded publishing venture. Joining John is Keith Kahn-Harris. Keith is a sociologist, researcher, writer and music critic. He is also an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, an associate lecturer for the Open University and the convenor of New Jewish […]
September 30, 2011
Russell Foster is Professor of Circadian Neuroscience, Chair of the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophtalmology and a Senior Kurti Fellow at Brasenose College at the University of Oxford, and a leading expert on the neuroscience of biological time. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society. Russell is the co-author with Leon Kreitzman of the books Rhythms […]
September 23, 2011
Nessa Carey is the author of The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance. She has a PhD in virology from the University of Edinburgh and has worked in the biotech industry for nearly ten years. She was previously a Senior Lecturer at Imperial College School of Medicine in London. […]
September 16, 2011
Jim Al-Khalili OBE is a theoretical physicist, author and broadcaster. He is currently Professor of Physics at the University of Surrey, where he also holds the first Surrey chair in the public engagement in science. He was awarded the Royal Society Michael Faraday Prize for science communication in 2007, elected Honorary Fellow of the British […]
November 30, 2011
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