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Robin Ince’s passionate outpouring about the many and wondrous ways in which science excites and unlocks creativity & wonder. I love Robin & his work dearly, however I can categorically state that he’s a difficult author for a new parent to read – I’ve been chopping away at this since March, and by the end…
Began as a fascinating exploration of the pulling of various strings to manipulate senses into contrarian experiences for people trying things, and somehow partway through turned into a love letter from the author to the Italian Futurists. Not helped by my continual confusing of Prof. Charles Spence with Prof. Richard Wiseman. I’m vaguely disgusted that…
Randall from XKCD has collected a bunch of thought-scoping exercises here about how to solve fairly basic problems (such as how to dig a hole) and then extrapolated to some less-basic ones (such as building a lava moat around your house) in such a way that gets you considering the notion of problem-solving by indirect…
Managed to *just* sneak this one in under the 2018 radar – Robin Ince has for a long time been one of my favourite comedians, and one whom I’ve watched reinvent himself and develop since first seeing him in 2006, and seeing his general demeanour grow to be much more tempestuous – alongside a keen…
After half a lifetime of talking about it and watching other friends of mine doing it, m’colleague Adrian and I took the plunge (and, advantage of THE BLACK FRIDAY SALES) and bought some elaborate homebrewing kit. With any hobby comes the inevitable purchase of the first book you buy to tell you how to do…
Marvellous bit of science communication, this! Throughout its 280-odd pages it touches on a vast number of scientific phenomena, and each is explained in an approachable, easy, and humorous conversational style. My only complaint is that it didn’t go into more detail on any of the topics it glanced across – if you could produce…