" Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact". - Thomas Huxley
Dr Michael Brooks, who holds a PhD in quantum physics, is an author, journalist and broadcaster. He is a consultant at New Scientist, and the author of the acclaimed non-fiction title 13 Things That Don't Make Sense and the techno-thriller Entanglement. as well as The Big Questions: Physics. Michaels latest book is Free Radicals: The Secret Anarchy of Science.
His writing has also appeared in the Guardian, the Independent, the Observer, the Times Higher Education, the Philadelphia Inquirer and (his proudest byline) Playboy. He has lectured at New York University, The American Museum of Natural History and Cambridge University. As well as contributing to traditional outlets for science, such as BBC Radio 4's Today Programme and Material World, he has a regular live slot on the George Lamb Show on BBC's 6 Music radio station, where he is regularly asked to explain everything in the universe. Michael Brooks has been out guest on Little Atoms twice.
Interview one first broadcast on 1st October 2010.
Interview two first broadcast on 15th July 2011.