Simon Ings

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Tune In: music with the brain in mind

4 March 2009: Plushmusic.tv's work last year with the Wellcome Collection finally makes it to video. The chap who appears first used to be a cage dancer in Newcastle. No word of a lie.

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Plushmusic - Herbie Nichols: "The Spinning Song"

4-8 February 2009: Plushmusic.tv launched in Germany with a five-day music festival in Cologne. I went along to blog the event.

http://blog.plushmusic.tv/search/loft+cologne

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Books by Baker, Barrow and Stewart

The Numerati: How They'll Get My Number and Yours by Stephen Baker
Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know by John D Barrow
Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities by Ian Stewart

http://bit.ly/cBkcIX

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Liver: a Fictional Organ with a Surface Anatomy of Four Lobes, by Will Self

Nature, 16 October 2008 
The review is reprinted here.

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Elephants on Acid and Other Bizarre Experiments by Alex Boese

Telegraph, 17 August 2008
http://bit.ly/d6mEVx
 

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Summer Books: The Future

The Times, July 3, 2008
http://bit.ly/aKJMmf 

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ID: The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century by Susan Greenfield

'Nothing new about neuroscience.' Telegraph, 8 June 2008
http://bit.ly/bRLgyz
 

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The Baby in the Mirror by Charles Fernyhough

'Babies are bags of bits.' Telegraph, 23 May 2008
http://bit.ly/8XzaqP
 

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The Finger Book by John Manning

'How race began.' Telegraph, 19 April 2008 
http://bit.ly/9B0oQw

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The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or the Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale

The murder that fiction ran away from.' Telegraph, 11 April 2008
http://bit.ly/bnVZfx

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