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Brian Clegg has a degree in natural sciences from Cambridge and a masters in Operational Research. He spent seventeen years with British Airways, where he formed a new department tasked with developing hi-tech solutions for the airline, and now speaks throughout the world on business and science-related topics.

He is the author of several popular science titles, including Inflight Science, The God Effect, A Brief History of Infinity, How to Build a Time Machine, The Universe Inside You and Gravity. He is also a freelance journalist who has contributed to the Guardian, Wall Street Journal, BBC History, Good Housekeeping, and Nature, and is the editor of the Popular Science online journal: www.popularscience.co.uk

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Published on May 17, 2013 00:48
Average rating: 3.45 · 678 ratings · 128 reviews · 57 distinct works · Similar authors
A Brief History of Infinity...
3.25 of 5 stars 3.25 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions
The God Effect: Quantum Ent...
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions
Inflight Science: A Guide t...
3.14 of 5 stars 3.14 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions
Before the Big Bang: The Pr...
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions
How to Build a Time Machine...
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions
The Universe Inside You: Th...
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions
Armageddon Science: The Sci...
3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions
Gravity: How the Weakest Fo...
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions
Upgrade Me: Our Amazing Jou...
3.21 of 5 stars 3.21 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions
The First Scientist: A Life...
3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions
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Brian Clegg rated a book 3 of 5 stars
The Serpent's Promise by Steve Jones
There are broadly two ways to write a popular science book. One is, like my book Gravity, to pick a specific aspect of science and really dig into it. The other is to use a theme that allows you to explore a whole range of different scientific topics...more
Brian Clegg rated a book 4 of 5 stars
Proving History by Richard Carrier
History is not unlike science, an observation made by Richard Carrier, the author of Proving History - and when you think about it, this idea makes a lot of sense. They both involve weighing up evidence, testing hypotheses and drawing up conclusions....more
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Brian Clegg rated a book 4 of 5 stars
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember by Annalee Newitz
I’m not a natural audience for books about surviving disasters (even though I wrote the Global Warming Survival Kit). I can’t stand disaster movies, because I can’t take the pragmatic ‘Oh well, some survive,’ viewpoint as I watch millions perish. So...more
Brian Clegg rated a book 3 of 5 stars
Network Geeks by Brian E Carpenter
There is a series of TV adverts in the UK that have managed to embed their tagline into common usage. The ads are for a type of varnish, and that tagline is ‘It does what it says on the tin.’ There is a real problem when a book doesn’t do what it say...more
Brian Clegg rated a book 2 of 5 stars
TimeOne by Colin Gillespie
TimeOne
by Colin Gillespie
read in May, 2013
I have always said that there is a real opportunity if anyone can write fiction that manages to entertain but also to educate about science at the same time. It is certainly possible, but fiercely difficult to do well. As we saw with something like P...more
Brian Clegg rated a book 3 of 5 stars
The Golden Ticket by Lance Fortnow
There is good and bad news early on in this book about the P versus NP problem that haunts computing. The good news is that on the description I expected this to be a dull, heavy going book, and it’s not at all. Lance Fortnow makes what could be a fa...more
Brian Clegg rated a book 5 of 5 stars
Time Reborn by Lee Smolin
As I write this we are a third of the way through 2013 (time is important here) and I can say with hand on heart this is the best popular science book I have read all year.

Lee Smolin’s book is largely accessible (more on this later) and simply mind-b...more
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