A course in deception
Things go from bad to worse for Mackenzie Smith when her data disappears, her lab rats are killed, and she is accused of fraud. But slowly she stars to discover who might be behind her misfortune foll...
15 Sep 201721min
Frankenstein: annotated for scientists and engineers
Next year will see the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelly's classic, Frankenstein; or, the modern Prometheus. To celebrate this, a new edition has been release with annotations aimed ...
4 Aug 201724min
We have no idea
Everything you need to know about everything we don't yet know. This month's book is We have no idea by the creators of PHD Comics, Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson. It discusses the great unsolved prob...
4 Juli 201720min
The death of expertise
The mass disparagement of knowledge is a recent phenomenon. Apparently we've all had enough of experts, and facts aren't important, as there are always alternatives. In The death of expertise, Tom Nic...
7 Juni 201721min
Bring back the king
Almost a decade after its extinction, the Pyrenean ibex became newly un-extinct thanks to cloning. But what are the limits of this technology? Could we one day visit a real-life Jurassic Park? Bring b...
2 Maj 201724min
The telomere effect
We would all love the gift of eternal youth. That remains a dream, but there are things we can actively do to resist the effects of ageing. One proven approach is to protect our telomeres, the short c...
7 Apr 201722min
The master algorithm
If there's one thing we can learn from histroy it's everything that there is to know. Or at least that's the promise of machine learning. The master algorithm by Pedro Domingos tells us how machines t...
24 Feb 201724min
Furry logic
Evolution has created ingenious solutions to life's problems. Some animals use physics in a way that stumps even the physicists. Turtles, for instance, venture thousands of miles across the ocean, yet...
13 Feb 201720min
