The US science writer’s debut appears in the UK
Why has neuroscience has been pipped to the post, not once, but time and time again, by writers and artists, composers and cooks?
Proust was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer
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Tag Archives: reviews and opinion
Science vs. fiction at the Guardian
Writer with no new book out meets major broadsheet microphone. Click, we dare you.
The Mind’s Eye by Oliver Sacks
I reviewed this for the Sunday Telegraph:
There is something very New York about the cultivated, yet horripilating glimpse Sacks gives of his own mortality. Years ago the actor Spalding Gray took a more brutal approach, screaming ‘DEATH!’ in the middle of an otherwise genial monologue.
Too clever by half?
Histories of science by David Knight and Patricia Fara
reviewed for History Today.
A review of Richard Wrangham’s Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
Telegraph, 4 October 2009
Kubrick’s Moon
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
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
Liver: a Fictional Organ with a Surface Anatomy of Four Lobes, by Will Self
The review is reprinted here.
Summer Books: The Future
The Times, July 3, 2008