My short book How to Get Writing…Fast, is being released for Kindle on 1 October. You can pre-order it on Amazon right now. Translating the perfect concept you hold in your imagination to the imperfect words of the printed page is way harder than it looks. This short book is designed as a quick-start overview … More Get Writing Fast – cover reveal!
It seems to me that by our everyday standards, hyper-extreme physics of the Einstein variety is magic – abstract, nonsensical and absurd. To me it’s like dada art. And that also isn’t surprising, conceptually. Setting aside the fact that both dada and Einstein came from Switzerland, the turn of the twentieth century brought the great … More Extreme physics as dada art – really!
A reminder that my short book Explaining Our Weird Universe 1: cool stuff about time, black holes and quantum magic, is being released on Kindle on 17 September. You can pre-order it right now on Amazon It’s a short book, collecting together six short essays explaining some of the cooler and weirder realities of our … More Three days until ‘Explaining Our Weird Universe 1’ is unleashed!
I have exciting news. My short book Explaining Our Weird Universe Volume 1: cool stuff about time, black holes and quantum magic, is being released on Kindle, initially, on 17 September. Already the pre-sales have outstripped previous records for my books on Kindle release. In it I explain – ‘for the rest of us’ some of … More Explaining Our Weird Universe Volume 1 – cover reveal!
I think it’s exciting that we’ve found an Earth-sized planet orbiting the star right next door. Proxima Centauri – the closest star to us besides the Sun. Last week’s announcement of Proxima b by the ‘Pale Red Dot’ project, operating mainly from the European Southern Observatory in Chile, was ‘leaked’ a month or so ago. … More Proxima Centauri’s got a planet! Yay, but don’t get too wild yet
There is a wonderful aphorism credited to Albert Einstein – ‘Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing it is stupid’. He didn’t necessarily say it, but it’s something he could have said. And it sums up one of … More Failing to escape the tyranny of twentieth century thinking – the junk science of psychology
Last December I gave up on broadcast TV. I’d had enough. A dozen channels running synchronised ads promoting products I didn’t want, interspersed with insults to intellect – TV news reduced to infotainment that talked down to eight-year olds, mind-numbing ‘reality TV’ shows, combat cookery contests and trite dramas filled with posturing ‘characters’ moving from … More And that’s why I don’t watch broadcast TV any more…
