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On air with Leonard Lopate

Posted by Matin Durrani on 23 September 2017

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LeonardLopateWith the paperback version of Furry Logic: The Physics of Animal Life due out in the UK next month, it was great yesterday for me and my co-author Liz Kalaugher to talk to New York radio legend Leonard Lopate on his Friday lunchtime show on WNYC.

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Furry Logic: a live doodle

Posted by Matin Durrani on 3 November 2016

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I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the launch of the book Furry Logic: The Physics of Animal Life at the Institute of Physics in London, where my co-author Liz Kalaugher and I spoke about some of the amazing creatures in our book. I talked about how cats drink using surface tension and how mosquitoes exploit Newton's laws to survive collisions with raindrops, while Liz discussed why loggerhead turtles can navgiate using the Earth's magnetic field and explained just why it is that the giant squid has an eye bigger than any other animal in the world.

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Spotify playlist - Furry Logic: Electricity & Magnetism

Posted by Matin Durrani on 9 October 2016

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  It's time for the penultimate Spotify playlist featuring - or linked to - animals in my and Liz Kalaugher's new book Furry Logic: the Physics of Animal Life. Published by Bloomsbury, the book's now available to buy in the UK and is due to come out on 31 January 2017 in the US.

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Spotify playlist - Furry Logic: Sound

Posted by Matin Durrani on 4 October 2016

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I've now created 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. This playlist's all about the animals covered in our chapter on sound.

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Spotify playlist - Furry Logic: Fluids

Posted by Matin Durrani on 3 October 2016

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Over the weekend, while enjoying Birmingham City satisfyingly beat Blackburn Rovers 1-0 to go sixth in the Championship, I created 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.

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Spotify playlist - Furry Logic: Forces

Posted by Matin Durrani on 29 September 2016

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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.

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Spotify playlist - Furry Logic: Heat

Posted by Matin Durrani on 25 September 2016

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spotify heat imageHaving 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.

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Furry Logic in my hands

Posted by Matin Durrani on 22 September 2016

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20160917 3After 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".

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