Writing tagged: ‘Alice Roberts’
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Book review: ‘Domination’ by Alice Roberts
How the Christian Church rose to prominence in the wake of the Roman Empire.
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Rich Text newsletter No. 34: ‘Out-of-date before I’d written a word’
Seaweed science • landscape philosophy • the Anthropocene that isn’t • Fred Hoyle • Einstein in a hut • sword evolution • early medieval funerary rituals • spookily timely social media posts • and more…
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Book review: ‘Buried’ by Prof. Alice Roberts
An alternative history of the first millennium in Britain.
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Newsletter No. 23: ‘Emerging from aestivation’
Massimo Pigliucci • ‘spirituality’ • Barry Lopez • talking trees • Eleanor Konik • rewilding • Mark Cocker • light pollution • Sir Clive Sinclair • Horatio Clare • swifts • the Enlightenment and more…
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Late autumn
Under self-imposed semi-house-arrest. Phase two of the Squirrel Wars. Binge reading. A brace of anniversaries.
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Book review: ‘The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being’ by Alice Roberts
Evolution and the making of us.
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Newsletter No. 11: ‘Penguin eggs and yetis’
Sir Thomas Browne • Saturn • penguin eggs • heroes of science • evolution of languages • nature books • dna barcoding • periodic table • Alice Roberts • geology and more…
