25 July – 1 August 2008
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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.
OLD NEWS 19 January A Telegraph review of Natalie Angier's The Canon: the Beautiful Basics of Science. A Guardian comment piece on iris printing. September 2007 A Telegraph review of 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 Unknown Quantity: a Real and Imagined History of Algebra by John Derbyshire, reviewed for the Telegraph. March Art and synaesthesia in this article for Dazed Digital. A Guardian comment piece on colour perception. For the Independent, a short catalogue of visual surprises mentioned in The Eye.
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Hastings' film festival Shot By The Sea is assembling a bizarre fictional audio tour of the town. I got to play in Sidney Little's iconic Thirties car park. Other 'guides' include Chris Petit, Selina Godden and Iain Sinclair. You'll be able to download audio files at 
The Times got me to 
Susan Greenfield knows a lot about prunes and has some unexceptional views about umbrellas, as 
How do you write about somebody who isn't there yet? Charles Fernyhough's biography of his daughter covers the first three years of her life. I reviewed it 
The Finger Book is John Manning's first stab at an evolutionary history of race. 
'British crime fiction did not grow out of the Saville Kent murder case; it ran away and hid from it.' 
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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, 
