Jay Owens

London

Head of Audience at London Review of Books

I wrote a book: ‘Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles’ (2023). Head of Audience @LRB. On Bluesky as @jayowens.bsky.social

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Disturbances

Mar 10, 2025 | disturbances.ghost.io | Jay Owens

Hello. I’m Jay Owens, a writer and researcher from London, and author of Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles (2023). That book was born out of this email newsletter, Disturbances, which you most likely signed up to in its previous life on Tinyletter (RIP). I have ported my email list over on to Ghost, from where I now write – but it has been a while since I've last written (July 2023!) and you are of course free to unsubscribe if you no longer wish to hear from me.
IRSD’s Owens discusses upcoming referendum

Mar 6, 2025 | coastalpoint.com | Jay Owens

In speaking with Indian River School District residents as part of our campaign to promote the upcoming current expense referendum on March 20, one issue has repeatedly come to the forefront — property reassessment in Sussex County. Many of you have asked how the reassessment will impact the referendum and your IRSD tax bill. The answer is that it won’t — for the most part.
Critically Endangered

Feb 4, 2025 | lrb.co.uk | Jay Owens

Devils Hole Pupfish, Amargosa Valley, Nevada. Photo © Stone Nature Photography / AlamyAccording to Donald Trump, the LA fires can be blamed on ‘an essentially worthless fish called a smelt’, which lives in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in Northern California.
Intelligens hinsides det menneskelige

Mar 30, 2024 | nytid.no | Jay Owens

Ways of Being: Beyond Human Intelligence,The Mountain in The SeaForfatter: James Bridle, Ray Nayler Farrar, Forlag: Penguin, Straus and Giroux, (USA, USA)ØKOLOGI / Et virvar av sammenkoblet liv. Utviklingen innen økologi og teknologi varsler en ny kopernikansk revolusjon: Språket, bastionen for antatt menneskelig overlegenhet, tilhører også naturen og maskinene. Kan en utvidet definisjon av intelligens bedre vårt forhold til andre vesener?
Jay Owens | Hell’s Kitchen

Feb 22, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Jay Owens

A geothermal power station by the Salton Sea, California. Photo © RGB Ventures / SuperStock / AlamyLast month, Controlled Thermal Resources (CTR) broke ground on the Hell’s Kitchen Lithium and Power project, an integrated geothermal power plant and lithium production facility on the coast of the Salton Sea in Imperial County, Southern California. It should produce enough lithium to make six million car batteries a year, powered by renewable energy and promising near-zero carbon emissions.
Empire of dust: what the tiniest specks reveal about the world - podcast

Oct 2, 2023 | theguardian.com | Jay Owens |Carlyss Peer

Nobody normally gives a second thought to dust, but it is inescapable. And if we pay close attention, we can see the biggest things – time, death and life itself – within these tiny floating particlesHow to listen to podcasts: everything you need to know
Il lato oscuro della pulizia

Sep 27, 2023 | internazionale.it | Jay Owens

Di tutte le faccende nessuna è più futile ed esasperante dello spolverare. Perché? Perché la polvere è estremamente difficile da eliminare. Ogni passaggio del piumino non fa che trasferire la nostra energia a quelle minuscole particelle, che volano allegramente nell’aria, fluttuano per alcuni istanti e poi si adagiano di nuovo delicatamente, distribuendosi sulle superfici appena pulite. Ma noi siamo furbi, vero?
Empire of dust: what the tiniest specks reveal about the world

Aug 30, 2023 | theguardian.com | Jay Owens

For two centuries, London’s buildings were black. Blanketed in sulphurous soot from coal fires – the famous London “pea souper” fogs – a thin layer of carbon coated every surface in the city. London was so dirty that there was no memory that it might ever have been any other way. During the restoration of 10 Downing Street in 1954, it was discovered that the familiar dark facade was not actually black at all, but originally yellow brick.
Dust by Jay Owens

Aug 30, 2023 | foyles.co.uk | Jay Owens

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Dust

Jul 24, 2023 | netgalley.co.uk | Jay Owens

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