Katie Roiphe is a professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. She writes a column on life, literature, and politics for Slate and writes for The New York Times, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Paris Review, and other publications. She is the author of numerous books including The Morning After: […]
June 28, 2013
After qualifying from medical school in Edinburgh, Gavin Francis spent ten years travelling, visiting all seven continents. He has worked in Africa and India, made several trips to the Arctic, and crossed Eurasia and Australasia by motorcycle. His first book, True North: Travels in Arctic Europe was published in 2008. He has lectured at the Scott Polar Research Institute […]
June 21, 2013
Jim Baggott has been studying and writing about the history of physics for more than 20 years and has won awards for his scientific research and his science writing. His previous books include A Beginner’s Guide to Reality and Beyond Measure: Modern Physics, Philosophy and the Meaning of Quantum Theory, and also Atomic: The First War of […]
May 31, 2013
Frank Swain is the founder of SciencePunk, the popular SEED ScienceBlogs site devoted to the weird and wonderful fringes of science. A regular contributor to media including Wired and the Guardian, he has a history of climbing buildings, managing burlesque shows, and generally being a force for good – and the scientific method. Frank ‘s first book is How […]
May 24, 2013
Coralie Colmez graduated with a First from Cambridge University in 2009, and now lives in London where she teaches and writes about mathematics. She belongs to the Bayes in Law Research Consortium, an international team devoted to improving the use of probability and statistics in criminal trials. Coralie is co-author along with her mother, the mathematician Leila […]
May 17, 2013
Ian Brown is Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Oxford Internet Institute. He is the editor of the Research Handbook on Governance of the Internet. Christopher T. Marsden is Professor of Law at the University of Sussex School of Law. He is the author of Net Neutrality: Towards a Co-Regulatory Solution, Internet Co-Regulation, and three other books. Ian and Chris […]
May 10, 2013
Emily Anthes is a science writer whose work has appeared in Discover, the Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, and many other publications. She is also the founder of the Wonderland blog, part of the Public Library of Science. Emily’s first book is Frankenstein’s Cat: Cuddling up to Biotech’s Brave New Beasts.
May 3, 2013
This is the fourth of a new strand of Little Atoms interviews in which Neil Denny talks to the hosts of some of his favorite podcasts. The Pod Delusion is a multi-award winning news and comment show about “interesting thingsâ€, Edited and produced by James O’Malley and Liz Lutgendorff, It covers everything politics, to science to […]
April 27, 2013
An unknown pathogen ravages Scotland’s capital, turning the unlucky souls into bloodthirsty ambling beasts. You are one of the last uninfected citizens in a city under martial law, cut off from the rest of the UK. Now, with help from real scientists, you have only hours to decide how to save Edinburgh, and perhaps the […]
April 26, 2013
Mary Roach has written for the Guardian, Vogue, GQ, Salon, Wired, National Geographic and the New York Times Magazine. She is the author of Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers, Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Sex and Science, and Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in Space. Her latest book, […]
July 5, 2013
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