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 21, 2012
While in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Neil spent an afternoon talking cosmology at the apartment of the theoretical astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan. Priya Natarajan is a Professor in the Departments of Astronomy and Physics at Yale University. Her research is focused on exotica in the Universe - dark matter, dark energy and black holes. She is noted for her key contributions to two […]
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 […]
September 14, 2012
In this episode, Neil drives to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and visits with Dr Stephen Barrett. Dr Stephen Barrett is a retired psychiatrist who has achieved national renown as an author, editor, and consumer advocate. An expert in medical communications, Dr. Barrett operates Quackwatch, Autism Watch, and a number of other Web sites and edits Consumer Health Digest (a […]
September 7, 2012
While in Cambridge, Massachusetts, home of Harvard University and MIT, Neil spent an afternoon at the home of Ig Nobel Prize founder Marc Abrahams.  Marc Abrahams is editor and co-founder of the science humour magazine Annals of Improbable Research and its website Improbable.com. He is the founder and master of ceremonies of the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, honouring achievements […]
August 31, 2012
This is a two part show recorded at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico. In the first part of the show Neil talks to LANL historian Alan Carr at the Bradbury Science Museum in central Los Alamos about the history of the town and the labs central role in the Manhattan Project. The second part of the show looks […]
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 17, 2012
This is the only interview in the Road Trip series conducted over the telephone. Neil was supposed to meet up with Ian Tattersall when he visited the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, but a late change in plans meant that the interview recorded from Neil’s hotel room in Chicago. Ian Tattersall was until […]
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.
October 5, 2012
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