Two interviews this week: Andrea Hart is a Special Collections Librarian at the Natural History Museum where she has worked for over 16 years. For the past 8 years she has had specific responsibility for the Botany Library collections that include impressive original artworks, rare books and manuscripts. Her particular interests lie in natural history art and illustration as well as […]
May 24, 2014
Alex Bellos is the bestselling author of Alex’s Adventures in Numberland, which was shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize. In 2002 he wrote a critically acclaimed book about Brazilian football, and in 2006 he ghost-wrote Pele’s autobiography, which was a number one bestseller. He is the Guardian’s maths-blogger, and has worked for the paper in London and Rio de […]
May 17, 2014
Gary Klein, PhD, is a research psychologist famous for his part in founding the field of naturalistic decision making, and is a Senior Scientist at MacroCognition LLC. He was one of the leaders of a team that redesigned the White House Situation Room. Gary is the author of numerous books, his latest being Seeing What Others Don’t: The Remarkable […]
May 10, 2014
Jesse Bering, PhD, is a frequent contributor to Scientific American and Slate. His writing has also appeared in New York magazine, The Guardian, and The New Republic, among other publications, and has been featured by NPR, Playboy Radio, the BBC, and more. The author of The God Instinct and Why is the Penis Shaped Like That? Bering is the former director […]
May 3, 2014
Lewis Dartnell is a UK Space Agency research fellow at the University of Leicester, in the field of astrobiology and the search for signs of life on Mars. He has won several awards for his science writing, and contributes to the Guardian, The Times and New Scientist. He has also written for television and appeared on […]
May 1, 2014
Alex Fleetwood is the founder and director of Hide&Seek, a game design studio dedicated to inventing new kinds of play. Hide&Seek started life in 2007 as a festival of social games and playful experiences on London’s South Bank, and built into a studio occupied a unique position in the UK, creating innovative games, installations and events with organisations including […]
May 31, 2014
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