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Tag Archives: Guardian

The Method by Juli Zeh

Posted on April 8, 2012 by simonings
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Reviewed for the Guardian

Illness is an obscenity, and failure to take all reasonable precautions against disease is a crime.

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We can only look on in horror tinged with a terrible sense of inevitability

Posted on September 7, 2011 by simonings
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James Flint reviews Dead Water for the Guardian

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Proust was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer

Posted on February 12, 2011 by simonings
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The US science writer’s debut appears in the UK at last. I reviewed it for the Guardian:

Why has neuroscience has been pipped to the post, not once, but time and time again, by writers and artists, composers and cooks?

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Science vs. fiction at the Guardian

Posted on November 26, 2010 by simonings
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Writer with no new book out meets major broadsheet microphone. Click, we dare you.

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