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Brian’s 2025 Year in Books
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Brian Clegg
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Littlebird - 3 months on with an AI personal assistant
Back in January I started using a new piece of AI software, Littlebird - three months on, it has become an important part of my working life as a combination of research assistant and PA.To give an example, a while ago I was looking for a new author to write a title in a series for which I act as series editor. My conversation with Littlebird demonstrates how its context awareness makes it bet
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For some inexplicable reason, police procedural and fantasy work well together. Before later flabbiness, for example, the Rivers of London series was excellent. And so far, Eva St. John’s Flint in the Bones is, if anything, even better. It starts in ...more |
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| This is a hugely intriguing piece of science fiction writing. You might think, given that the main setting of this novel is the University of Warwick, that it's a scientific equivalent of Malcolm Bradbury's The History Man, but it's not humour - it's ...more | |
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| The 'cosy crime' genre has become massive, particularly thanks to books where a small gang of amateurs somehow beats the professionals to the solution (think The Thursday Murder Club and The Marlow Murder Club). Generally, this approach has one huge ...more | |
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| It's very quickly clear that Sebastian Mallaby is a huge Demis Hassabis fan - writing about the only child prodigy and teen genius ever who was also a nice, rounded personality. After a few chapters, though, things settle down (I'm reminded of the de ...more | |
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| Of all the sciences it's arguable that geology is the hardest to make appealing to the general public. Okay some rocks are pretty, and it's behind impressive landscapes, but it lacks a certain excitement for most. By presenting geology in a highly il ...more | |
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Becoming Martian: How Living in Space Will Change Our Bodies and Minds
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| Until recently there was a huge geeky talking point based on establishing a colony on Mars. Several billionaires took an interest, notably SpaceX's boss, while there was even the suggestion that a Mars colony could be run as a TV show, like an extrat ...more | |
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| If I'm honest, I was disappointed by David Miles' definition of a cold. He tells us 'Within these covers, a cold is an illness caused by a virus that infects the upper respiratory tract and, in most cases, clears up within a matter of days or possibl ...more | |
“Newton’s law of gravitation. That’s all you need (with a spot of calculus to crunch the numbers) to work out how the Earth will orbit the Sun or how an apple will fall if you let it go at a certain height. The only trouble is that Newton had no idea how this gravity thing worked. His model was simply: ‘There is an attraction between bits of stuff, and let’s not bother about why.”
― Gravitational Waves: How Einstein's spacetime ripples reveal the secrets of the universe
― Gravitational Waves: How Einstein's spacetime ripples reveal the secrets of the universe
“Famously, Einstein said that his ‘happiest thought’ occurred here: ‘I was sitting in a chair in the Patent Office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me. If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight. I was startled.’ By thinking of someone falling, for example in a plummeting lift, Einstein had realised that it was impossible to distinguish acceleration and the pull of gravity. And working through the mathematical implications of this made it clear that gravity was an effect that could be produced by a distortion of space and time.”
― Gravitational Waves: How Einstein's spacetime ripples reveal the secrets of the universe
― Gravitational Waves: How Einstein's spacetime ripples reveal the secrets of the universe
“The year 1992 should have been remembered as the 700th anniversary of the death of a man who changed the world. Yet the occasion passed without note. Few know of the remarkable achievements of someone who, more than any other, can be said to have invented science.”
― Roger Bacon: The First Scientist
― Roger Bacon: The First Scientist
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