Will Storr is a novelist and awarding winning journalist. His features are regulars in many broadsheet newspapers and magazines around the world. Both his first novel ‘The Hunger and Howling of Killian Lone’ and his latest non-fiction book ‘The Heretics’ were released earlier in 2013. Will is also a contributing editor of Esquire magazine. I was an altar boy because you...
Mark Lynas is a British author, journalist and environmentalist whose work focuses on climate change. He writes on the subject for a number of newspapers, magazines and journals and has authored three popular science books. His book ‘Six Degrees’, on the effects of rising temperatures, was turned into a major series for National Geographic narrated by Alec Baldwin. I think environmental issues are...
Kate Russell is a computer and technology journalist. As well as writing for a variety of sites, Kate is a presenter on the BBC technology show ‘Click’. She has recently written a book about using the internet to further business entitled ‘Working the Cloud’. There’s no way that inside this box on the table there’s this infinite universe. On becoming interested in technology...
Christopher Sykes is a British filmmaker who has directed and produced over seventy films but is probably best known as the director of many films and television series with Professor Richard Feynman including ‘The Pleasure of Finding Things Out’, ‘Fun to Imagine’ and ‘No Ordinary Genius’. Feynman said, ‘If the film’s any good that’s to your credit and if it’s lousy, well, that’s your...
Deborah Hyde is the editor in chief of The Skeptic Magazine in the UK. She is a film make up effects co-ordinator and leading writer, often under the name of Jourdemayne, on the subject of belief in the supernatural. I always say that religion is superstition with politics. On Becoming Interested in Science So, my area of interest is why people believe in...