Simon Ings

“Ah, bankers, students, workers, officials, servants, you are the cock-suckers of the useful, the masturbators of necessity. I shall never work. My hands are pure.” — Louis Aragon

Histories of science by David Knight and Patricia Fara

Posted on August 1, 2010 by simonings

reviewed for History Today.

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The Edge of Physics by Anil Ananthaswamy

Posted on June 21, 2010 by simonings

reviewed for the Sunday Telegraph.

http://bit.ly/bHiIZz

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

Posted on October 26, 2009 by simonings

Telegraph, September 1, 2009.

http://richarddawkins.net/articles/4272

A review of Richard Wrangham’s Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

Posted on October 26, 2009 by simonings

Telegraph, 4 October 2009

http://bit.ly/9kHugw

Kubrick’s Moon

Posted on October 26, 2009 by simonings

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.

Books by Baker, Barrow and Stewart

Posted on October 26, 2009 by simonings

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