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Roger Highfield

Roger Highfield
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Roger Highfield

ROGER HIGHFIELD, Ph.D. (Co-Writer) is the Editor of New Scientist magazine, which is now the world’s biggest selling weekly science and technology magazine. He has written/coauthored six popular science books, two of which have been bestsellers, including After Dolly, The Science of Harry Potter, The Physics of Christmas, The Private Lives of Albert Einstein, and Frontiers of Complexity. His most recent work was as the outside editor on genomic researcher J. Craig Venter's autobiography, A Life Decoded, published in November, 2007 (Viking, US; Allen Lane, UK) .

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Brightsurf Science News, May 1, 2012
...Russian prince Petr Kropotkin, who wanted to base society on altruism, to the brilliant... by Martin Nowak (Author), Roger Highfield (Author) EVOLUTION IS OFTEN PRESENTED AS A STRICTLY COMPETITIVE ENDEAVOR. This point of view has had serious implications...
Colorado Springs Gazette, April 19, 2012
...Harry Potter generation of sorcerers and spells, invisibility cloaks, potions and flying broomsticks,” she said. She also credits Roger Highfield’s book “The Science of Harry Potter.” “I was mesmerized by the author’s premise that with just a...
PC Advisor, April 5, 2012
...whom he wrote last years best-selling biography. Also in attendance was Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and Einstein biographer Roger Highfield, now the Director of External Affairs at the National Museum of Science and Industry. As in his biography...
Discover Magazine, December 24, 2011
...in the deep ocean creates a quilt of life What’s the greatest invention? A good choice from Roger Highfield. Female Elephants Teach Inexperienced Mating Game Nature?s 10: ten people who mattered in science this year Nice piece on catching condors in...
Telegraph, November 18, 2011
...emotional history of the great early 20th-century mountaineers, as it also remembers the initial attempts to conquer Everest. Roger Highfield. The Emperor of all Maladies (Fourth Estate, 9.99), Siddhartha Mukherjees marvellous Biography of Cancer, takes...
MyNewsDesk, November 10, 2011
...our lives." Vivienne Parry's judging panel included: professor and writer Joanna Bourke; writer, scientist and journalist Roger Highfield; award-winning author and commentator Tim Lott; and the Literary Editor of 'The Times', Erica Wagner. The...
Telegraph, April 3, 2012
...skin patch that can monitor heart and brain functions could be used to enhance the bodys well-being, reports Roger Highfield. One day soon, your doctor might prescribe you something that looks like a colourful temporary tattoo. But when you apply it to...
Telegraph, April 3, 2012
...skin patch that can monitor heart and brain functions could be used to enhance the bodys well-being, reports Roger Highfield. One day soon, your doctor might prescribe you something that looks like a colourful temporary tattoo. But when you apply it to...
Examiner.com, March 25, 2012
...pertaining to possession, etc. Yet, in fact, this is simply not the case. In view now is that Roger Highfield reported the claim that religions thrived to protect against disease (Telegraph, 30 Jul 2008 AD): Religions thrived to protect our ancestors...
Examiner.com, March 24, 2012
...no more rationality, intellect, intelligence, reason or evidence than that which can be mustered by a little baby. Roger Highfield and Nic Fleming, wrote a report for the UK Telegraph titled “We're born with a belief in the supernatural, says...
PRLog, March 21, 2012
...evolution as mutation and natural selection. The book was co-written by Daily Telegraph columnist and New Scientist editor, Roger Highfield, and will be serialized in the Daily Telegraph.The book evolved from the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics which...
Zimbio, March 15, 2012
...lot of space and it's never claustrophobic. There is a special Wizard Week event on Friday where Roger Highfield, author of "The Science of Harry Potter", will be giving a talk so you could find out how dragons fly and whether invisibility cloaks could...
PR-Canada.net, March 13, 2012
...evolution as mutation and natural selection. The book was co-written by Daily Telegraph columnist and New Scientist editor, Roger Highfield, and will be serialized in the Daily Telegraph. The book evolved from the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics which...