Tag: science

A frequent visitor to the Edinburgh Fringe discussing subjects as diverse as the universe, numbers, willpower, The Simpsons and pockets in women’s clothing, London based Australian comedian of

Kevin Quantum has come a long way in his hybrid career, and also very little distance; where three years ago Quantum Magic was performed in a cramped, sweaty

There are some works which remain confined to the time in which they were crafted, which now serve only as a quaint illustration of a bygone age, when

The laws of physics are universal; it has taken thousands of years to extrapolate them from the evidence of the everyday, but they govern the motion of objects

“It was the secrets of heaven and Earth that I desired to learn.” Doctor Frankenstein’s desire may have led to tragedy but Shelley’s words sum up the credo

Preceding the performance of Caryl Churchill’s A Number at the Lyceum Theatre on the evening of 12th April, writer and presenter Simon Watt interviewed noted biologist Steve Jones

“If I have seen further, it is by standing on ye shoulders of giants.” So wrote Sir Isaac Newton to Robert Hooke on February 5th 1675, a statement

Often the best science fiction is not actually about what it is about. To take the example of two of his best known novels, when John Wyndham wrote

There are expectations set by the daily familiarity and experience with the macrocosmic scale; even those unfamiliar with Newton’s laws of motion can gauge where to reach to

Kevin McMahon, scientist, inventor, bow tied magician; he may not yet have mastered the art (or science) of time travel but he is certainly a mad man with