Brian Clegg
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Popular science author and science communicator
Popular science author and science communicator
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The self-publishing experience
The latest self-pubbed Capel novel, An End to Innocence I've been a professional writer for over 20 years, but when I first started to get into writing, I wrote a number of novels which, despite getting positive feedback from publishers, never made it into ...
The latest self-pubbed Capel novel, An End to Innocence I've been a professional writer for over 20 years, but when I first started to get into writing, I wrote a number of novels which, despite getting positive feedback from publishers, never made it into ...
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Improbable Destinies - Jonathan Losos
There's always a danger when a science author puts themselves at the heart of their book that it can come across as 'Me, me, me!' - but Jonathan Losos has a very amiable personal style that gives the impression of having a chat with the author over a beer -...
There's always a danger when a science author puts themselves at the heart of their book that it can come across as 'Me, me, me!' - but Jonathan Losos has a very amiable personal style that gives the impression of having a chat with the author over a beer -...
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Big Data? So what?
I'm delighted to say that my new book, Big Data is now available... but you may think 'So what?' data's not exactly new. What's the fuss all about? This extract from the introduction explains why: It’s hard to avoid ‘big data’. The words are thrown at us in...
I'm delighted to say that my new book, Big Data is now available... but you may think 'So what?' data's not exactly new. What's the fuss all about? This extract from the introduction explains why: It’s hard to avoid ‘big data’. The words are thrown at us in...
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Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2017
The Royal Society's shortlist (I really wish they still did a longlist) for their book prize has now been announced: Beyond Infinity - Eugenia Cheng I Contain Multitudes - Ed Yong In Pursuit of Memory - Joseph Jebelli Other Minds - Peter Godfrey-Smith Testo...
The Royal Society's shortlist (I really wish they still did a longlist) for their book prize has now been announced: Beyond Infinity - Eugenia Cheng I Contain Multitudes - Ed Yong In Pursuit of Memory - Joseph Jebelli Other Minds - Peter Godfrey-Smith Testo...
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Mistress of Science - John Croucher and Rosalind Croucher ***
It's quite common these days to read clickbait headlines telling us about the 'Most brilliant woman scientist/mathematician you never heard of' - I doubt if I'm alone in saying quite genuinely I had never heard of Janet Taylor, or her work that John and Ros...
It's quite common these days to read clickbait headlines telling us about the 'Most brilliant woman scientist/mathematician you never heard of' - I doubt if I'm alone in saying quite genuinely I had never heard of Janet Taylor, or her work that John and Ros...
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Big Data - Brian Clegg ****
I first became involved with what we now term big data when providing some mathematical assistance to a major supermarket. They wanted to know what products would suffer, or benefit, if another product were put on special offer – the victims and victors as...
I first became involved with what we now term big data when providing some mathematical assistance to a major supermarket. They wanted to know what products would suffer, or benefit, if another product were put on special offer – the victims and victors as...
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Review - Wolfbane ****
Every now and then I like to re-read an SF classic, and there are rarely safer hands to be in than those of Pohl and Kornbluth. I was surprised as I got into it that I couldn't remember a thing about this book - I suspect it's because despite featuring a nu...
Every now and then I like to re-read an SF classic, and there are rarely safer hands to be in than those of Pohl and Kornbluth. I was surprised as I got into it that I couldn't remember a thing about this book - I suspect it's because despite featuring a nu...
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The Aliens are Coming! - Ben Miller *****
This book is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. The packaging – from the exclamation mark in the title to the frequent use of words like “witty” and “entertaining” in the various celebrity endorsements, and the emphasis on the author’s track record as a comedian a...
This book is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. The packaging – from the exclamation mark in the title to the frequent use of words like “witty” and “entertaining” in the various celebrity endorsements, and the emphasis on the author’s track record as a comedian a...
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'Two cultures' is live and well on Pointless
To get into this topic I have to admit to a guilty pleasure - when I want to have a totally undemanding half hour in front of the TV to unwind, I rather enjoy the quiz show, Pointless . But the last episode I watched made me think that C. P. Snow's ' Two cu...
To get into this topic I have to admit to a guilty pleasure - when I want to have a totally undemanding half hour in front of the TV to unwind, I rather enjoy the quiz show, Pointless . But the last episode I watched made me think that C. P. Snow's ' Two cu...
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Review - Resorting to Murder ***
Not surprisingly bought as a holiday read, Resorting to Murder was pleasant enough to pass the time, but didn't really hit the spot. Part of the problem is that by comparison with the opening Sherlock Holmes story ( The Adventure of the Devil's Foot: itself...
Not surprisingly bought as a holiday read, Resorting to Murder was pleasant enough to pass the time, but didn't really hit the spot. Part of the problem is that by comparison with the opening Sherlock Holmes story ( The Adventure of the Devil's Foot: itself...
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