Matin Durrani - Science Journalist
Spotify playlist - Furry Logic: Forces
Right, so here's the next Spotify playlist featuring animals covered in my and Liz Kalaugher's new popular-science book Furry Logic: The Physics of Animal Life, published by Bloomsbury.
Spotify playlist - Furry Logic: Heat
Having just written a new popular-science book Furry Logic: The Physics of Animal Life with Liz Kalaugher, we're both keen to drum up interest in our amazing physics-meeets-animals mashup.
Furry Logic in my hands
After a long hiatus writing anything on this blog, i am now planning to get back on track blogging. That's because I've got a real motivation this time, which is to promote a new popular-science book I've written with Liz Kalaugher called "Furry Logic: The Physics of Animal Life".
The online bubble
I've just spent a few days on holiday in Paris, tootling around the sights, catching up with friends and trying out the city's great bike-hire scheme called Velib. Cycling is a great way to see the city: it's mostly flat and the side roads are fairly quiet. I don't know which visionary genius had the will to get this scheme off the ground, but full marks to whoever it was because it works brilliantly.
Famous first words
Typing one's first words into a new blog has a slightly momentous feel -- a bit like buying your first record I suppose -- but it oughtn't to be such a dramatic thing. After all, there are a gazillion blogs already out there. (And yes, I know, gazillion, is not a proper scientific unit.) One thing I should make clear right at the start is that this blog is my personal blog and has nothing to do with the Physics World blog that I contribute to in my day job when time permits. In fact, this blog gets right to heart of a point we have debated many times in the Physics World team, namely where does one's "work persona" end and one's "home persona" take over. Social-media tools make the distinction a rather blurry one, but I like to think that what I write on the Physics World blog is different to this blog in two main ways.