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  • ‘The Brain’ by David Eagleman

    ‘The Brain’ by David Eagleman

    Recommendation #2 for this month.

    I have been thrilling entertaining delighting telling all my friends about this book by David Eagleman about the brain.  (H particularly cannot hear enough about it.)  It’s a popular science book written by someone who is a big deal in their field (and who studied with Francis Crick, the giant of 20th century science who, together with James Watson, stole the discovery of DNA from Rosalind Franklin).

    Every once in a while a landmark book/TV series comes along with the intention of popularising a field of academic expertise: Kenneth Clarke’s Civilisation, Jacob Bronowski’s The Ascent of Man, Carl Sagan’s Cosmos.  And everything that David Attenborough has ever done. (more…)

  • The Andrew Graham-Dixon blooper reel

    The Andrew Graham-Dixon blooper reel

    For no reason other than that I am a huge AGD fan, and he gives good on-camera fails.

    First of all, here is what he looks like in his natural habitat:

    Got the tone?  Cool.  Let’s get down to it then.