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Thinking…
(Process from the book.) The book is appearing on bookshelves in the UK this week! Warehouses filling up for UK online shipping too. -cvj Click to continue reading this post → The post Thinking…...
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Conversation Piece
I wrote a piece for The Conversation two week ago. It turned out to be very well read. It concerns science, entertainment, and culture. I also discuss aspects of how my work on the book fits into the...
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Conversation Piece
I wrote a piece for The Conversation recently that is making the rounds, drawing on lots of research sources (including reading some comics from the 1960s!). You might like it. Here it is: The hidden...
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A Chat with Henry Jenkins!
Yesterday Henry Jenkins and I had a great chat as a Facebook Live event. The video is here. The conversation started with the movie Black Panther, but wandered into many topics related to culture,...
View ArticleSigning Times
Well, @WalterIsaacson was signing at the same table as me at #sxsw so we got to catch up between doing our penmanship. Excited to read his Leonardo book. And he’s put #thedialoguesbook on his reading...
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London Event Tomorrow!
Perhaps you were intrigued by the review of The Dialogues, my non-fiction graphic novel about science, in Saturday’s Spectator? Well, I’ll be talking about the book tomorrow (Thursday) at the bookshop...
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Take Your Pick
I'll at two festivals this weekend, which I admit seems a bit over-ambitious! Let me tell you a little about both. One event is the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, which you've read me talking...
View ArticleFrank Buckley Interviews…
Turns out that Frank Buckley, the news anchor at KTLA 5, is not just a really great guy (evident from his manner on TV), but also a really excellent interviewer with a sharp curiosity that gives me...
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Make with Me!
Bay Area! You're up next! The Maker Faire is a wonderful event/movement that I've heard about for years and which always struck me as very much in line with my own way of being (making, tinkering,...
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Resolution
Today is the release of the short story anthology Twelve Tomorrows from MIT Press with a wonderful roster of authors. (It is an annual project of the MIT Technology Review.) I’m in there too, with a...
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Google Talk!
I think that I forgot to post this link when it came out some time ago. I gave a talk at Google when I passed though London last Spring. There was a great Q & A session too - the Google employees...
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Stan Lee’s Contributions to Science!!
I'm late to the party. Yes, I use the word party, because the outpouring of commentary noting the passing of Stan Lee has been, rightly, marked with a sense of celebration of his contributions to our...
View ArticleEndgame Memories
About 2-3 (ish) years ago, I was asked to visit the Disney/Marvel mothership in Burbank for a meeting. I was ushered into the inner workings of the MCU, past a statue of the newly acquired Spidey, and...
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Two Days at San Diego Comic-Con 2019
[caption id="attachment_19354" align="aligncenter" width="499"] Avengers cosplayers in the audience of my Friday panel.[/caption]It might surprise you to know just how much science gets into the mix at...
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The Life Scientific Interview
After doing a night bottle feed of our youngest in the wee hours of the morning some nights earlier this week, in order to help me get back to sleep I decided to turn on BBC Sounds to find a programme...
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