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Who is Michael Brooks?

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Michael Brooks, who holds a PhD in quantum physics, is an author, journalist and broadcaster. He is a consultant at NewScientist, a weekly magazine with over three quarters of a million readers worldwide, and the author of the acclaimed non-fiction title 13 Things That Don’t Make Sense and the techno-thriller Entanglement.

His writing has also appeared in the Guardian, the Independent, the Observer, the Times Higher Education, the Philadelphia Inquirerand (his proudest byline) Playboy. He has lectured at New York University, The American Museum of Natural History and Cambridge University. As well as contributing to traditional outlets for science, such as BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme and Material World, he has a regular live slot on the George Lamb Show on BBC’s 6 Music radio station, where he is regularly asked to explain everything in the universe.

For television, he has appeared in a Channel Four documentary on Time Travel (which he co-scripted) and discussed alien invasions on More 4 News. He is a regular speaker and debate chair at the Brighton Science Festival.

Michael Brooks's blog: Aetherwatch - latest

Pop the corks!

Posted: 2/4/2010 7:18:00 PM

There's not many days in your life when you have two books come out. By coincidence, the UK paperback of 13 Things That Don't Make Sense, and a new book of mine - The Big Questions: Physics - are both out today. The day has gotten away from me, so I'm going to do little more than highlight them here - more (especially about the new one... more

Quantum gunfight

Posted: 2/3/2010 9:59:00 AM

There’s a brilliant story on New Scientist today about why you should draw second in a gunfight. The best thing about it is the recollection that Neils Bohr, the father of quantum theory, used to force his colleagues to participate in gunfight experiments: Niels Bohr once had a theory on why the good guy always won shoot-outs in... more

Curiouser and curiouser
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WE HAVE always been aware that quantum stuff moves in mysterious ways. A quantum particle such as... - more