Simon Ings

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Histories of science by David Knight and Patricia Fara

reviewed for History Today.

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The Edge of Physics by Anil Ananthaswamy

reviewed for the Sunday Telegraph.

http://bit.ly/bHiIZz

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A review of Richard Wrangham's Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

Telegraph, 4 October 2009
http://bit.ly/9kHugw

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A review of The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins

Telegraph, September 1, 2009.
http://richarddawkins.net/articles/4272

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Kubrick's Moon

On Saturday 18 July 2009 I was at the BFI on London's South Bank, exploring Kubrick's designs for space travel with Will Whitehorn, Chris Riley, Theo Kamecke and Tony Frewin. This blogpost was written to introduce the event.

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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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