19 April 2008
11 April
8 April
4 April
25 March
15 February
'Philosophy, however pragmatic and politically engaged, proceeds through language. Much else that we are, and can be, and should be, has nothing to do with words.' This review of Richard Sennett's The Craftsman appeared in The Times.
6 February Vision, guesswork and lies: listen to the Telegraph interview.
5 February 'Peter Tallack, literary agent and director at Conville & Walsh, is leaving the company after six years to set up his own operation. The new agency and consultancy, to be launched next week, will be called The Science Factory and will focus on popular science. Most of Tallack's authors at Conville & Walsh, who include Ian Stewart, Arthur I. Miller, Paul Parsons, Paul Mason and Simon Ings, intend to join him in his new venture.'
3 February
'Death, more often than not, has twenty faces.' Du Sautoy's latest mathematical entertainment is reviewed in the Independent on Sunday.
1 February
Ann and Jeff Vandermeer have very generously included an old story of mine, The Braining of Mother Lamprey, in their new anthology.
19 January
'The New York Times science journalist Natalie Angier has written an introduction to science. All of it. At once.' Read this Telegraph review of The Canon: the Beautiful Basics of Science.
19 January
'The FBI's data-sharing proposals, involving an entire suite of biometric data, are directed at catching major criminals and terrorists. The name the Feds gave this project, however, suggests that someone, somewhere, is looking to the future: "server in the sky".'
OLD NEWS September 2007 The Telegraph had me review two excellent books about numbers: One to Nine by Andrew Hodges and The Tiger that Isn't by Michael Blastland and Andrew Dilnot. On ABC Radio National's Book Show, Kirsten Garrett talked to me about The Eye: a Natural History. May I reviewed Unknown Quantity: a Real and Imagined History of Algebra by John Derbyshire for the Telegraph. March Art and synaesthesia rub shoulders in this article for Dazed Digital. The Guardian ran this comment piece on colour perception. In the run-up to publication day, the Independent ran a short catalogue of visual surprises mentioned in The Eye.
| ||||
 | | | | |
The Finger Book is John Manning's first stab at an evolutionary history of race. It's vital stuff – 
'British crime fiction did not grow out of the Saville Kent murder case; it ran away and hid from it.' 
'
A new series of short avant-garde films which aims to capture 
A poem written by the imprisoned Chinese journalist 
A consortium led by the University of Plymouth has won a £4.7m grant to teach a humanoid robot named iCub how to speak English. Let's hope it grows into a sociable little thing. The bald fact is, 
