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Undercover Scientist is used for Japanese University Entrance Exam
Today I received a new request. It turns out that content from the UK version of my book The Undercover Scientist has been (and is still being) used as part of an official Japanese University Entrance Exam. The passage is presented to the students, with some questions that test the…
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Reader comment about Why Sh*t Happens
A new message from one of my readers today. It's always a pleasure to hear from them, especially when they say things like this: I bought your book "Why Shit Happens" as I killed some time in Portland's lovely airport (if the very concept of a "lovely airport" isn't an oxymoron)…
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BBC Radio 4 Robowars
Last night a friend told me I was on the radio. Turns out it was the second episode of the BBC Radio 4 documentary "Robowars" for which I had been interviewed some time ago. I feature in the programme twice, once about 12 minutes in and second about 23 minutes…
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South American Numbers
I received another batch of books from my publisher this morning. These are more translation editions of The Book of Numbers: German, US, Japanese, and Brazilian. Strangely the Brazilian version has a different cover image from all the others, and to my surprise it has a quote from Scientific American.…
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Swiss interest in iStethoscope Pro
I was somewhat surprised to see the download figures for my iphone app iStethoscope Pro for last month - the download figures for Swiss users, as well as Belgian, French and German were astonishingly high. It turns out that without anyone telling me, there had been significant publicity in Swiss…
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Photos, mentions and mishaps
It's been a busy week as Neon magazine in Germany have decided to write a feature on my book Why Sh*t Happens (or The Undercover Scientist in the UK). So I spent Monday afternoon dressed up in a suit having my photo taken while crouching over a pile of broken…
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Futurist article on iStethoscope Pro
The international interest about my iphone application iStethoscope from cardiologists and the media continues to increase. The most recent is this article in Futurist magazine. For more details about the program, go to the application website here.
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