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A review of The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins

Posted on October 26, 2009 by simonings
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Telegraph, September 1, 2009.

http://richarddawkins.net/articles/4272
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Kubrick’s Moon

Posted on October 26, 2009 by simonings
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On Saturday 18 July 2009 I was at the BFI on London’s South Bank, exploring Kubrick’s designs for space travel with Will Whitehorn, Chris Riley, Theo Kamecke and Tony Frewin. This blogpost was written to introduce the event.

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The Lunacy Corporation breaks silence

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8 May 2009: Intense historical research bore fruit in Tunnel 228.
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The Lunacy Corporation breaks silence

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8 May 2009: Intense historical research bore fruit in Tunnel 228.
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Tune In: music with the brain in mind

Posted on October 26, 2009 by simonings
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4 March 2009: Plushmusic.tv’s work last year with the Wellcome Collection finally makes it to video. The chap who appears first used to be a cage dancer in Newcastle. No word of a lie.

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Plushmusic – Herbie Nichols: “The Spinning Song”

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4-8 February 2009: Plushmusic.tv launched in Germany with a five-day music festival in Cologne. I went along to blog the event.

http://blog.plushmusic.tv/search/loft+cologne

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Books by Baker, Barrow and Stewart

Posted on October 26, 2009 by simonings
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The Numerati: How They’ll Get My Number and Yours by Stephen Baker
Essential Things You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know by John D Barrow
Professor Stewart’s Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities by Ian Stewart

http://bit.ly/cBkcIX

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Liver: a Fictional Organ with a Surface Anatomy of Four Lobes, by Will Self

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Nature, 16 October 2008 
The review is reprinted here.
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Summer Books: The Future

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The Times, July 3, 2008
http://bit.ly/aKJMmf 
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ID: The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century by Susan Greenfield

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‘Nothing new about neuroscience.’ Telegraph, 8 June 2008
http://bit.ly/bRLgyz
 
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