Henry Nicholls is a freelance science journalist writing regularly for Nature, New Scientist and BBC Focus as well as the broadsheets. His first book Lonesome George told the story of the last giant tortoise of Pinta in the Galapagos and was shortlisted for the 2007 Royal Society General Book Prize. Henry’s latest book is The Way of The […]
February 18, 2011
Joanne Baker studied Physics at the University of Cambridge and took her PhD in Astrophysics at the University of Sydney in 1995. She is the author of the best selling 50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know and is an editor at Nature magazine, where her speciality is space and Earth science. Her latest book […]
February 11, 2011
Chris Petit is a film and video-maker and an author. His films include Radio On, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman and Chinese Boxes, and his video work has covered weather, surveillance and the M25. His novels include The Hard Shoulder, The Human Pool and The Passenger. Chris also writes regular reviews for The Guardian. First broadcast on […]
February 4, 2011
Johann Hari is an award-winning journalist who writes twice-weekly for the Independent, and the Huffington Post. He is a contributing writer for Slate, and regularly appears on the BBC’s Newsnight Review. His work has also appeared in a wide range of other international newspapers and magazines. http://www.johannhari.com First broadcast on 4th February 2011
February 3, 2011
Evgeny Morozov is the author of The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World. He is a contributing editor to Foreign Policy and runs the magazine’s “Net Effect” blog about the Internet’s impact on global politics. http://www.evgenymorozov.com Morozov is currently a visiting scholar at Stanford University and a Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation. […]
February 25, 2011
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