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Who is Michael Brooks?

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Michael Brooks is a journalist and author. His first novel, Entanglement, was published by Random House Australia in December 2007. His first non-fiction book, 13 Things That Don’t Make Sense, an exploration of scientific anomalies, will be published in Autumn 2008 by Profile Books in the UK and by Doubleday Broadway, a division of Random House, in the US & Canada.

He is a consultant at New Scientist, a weekly magazine with over three quarters of a million readers worldwide. He is also co-writing a major TV series for Discovery Channel that will explore the known universe through the eyes and imagination of Professor Stephen Hawking.

Until August 2006, Brooks was a senior features editor at New Scientist, co-ordinating, writing or editing many of the magazine’s major feature projects. His writing has also appeared in the Guardian, the Independent, the Observer, the Times Higher Educational Supplement and (his proudest byline) Playboy.

He co-scripted and appeared in a 2003 Channel 4/TLC documentary on time travel (“The World’s First Time Machine”), has been a speaker and debate chair at the Brighton Science Festival, and has lectured at Cambridge University on issues of science, religion and journalism. He is 37 years old, holds a PhD in quantum physics, and is married with two children.

Michael Brooks's blog: Aetherwatch - latest

Read, Pammy, read

Posted: 6/29/2009 2:16:00 PM

OK, I'm back. Heinous deadlines are receding into the past, and I might just start blogging properly again. For now, this. Who knows what Pammy's reading in this pic? All I know is it's not 13 Things That Don't Make Sense. But maybe on her next break she will be: the Sunday Times just laid out the 100 best holiday reads, and 13 ... more

Don't know what you got til it's gone...

Posted: 6/12/2009 9:16:00 AM

I am running badly behind schedule with my posting, thanks to a heinous deadline load. So, here’s two for the price of one, and weird science Wednesday is on an indefinite break (I'm switching to Thursdays on George Lamb's show, cos we're taking it up a notch or two - more on that later). Got a piece on the Mars conspiracy (i... 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