
Jon Turney
Journalist at Freelance
Books, science, jazz. Writing @londonjazz and https://t.co/ZCyf8ft0wB Staying here for the jazz. Other stuff migrating to bluesky... (slowly)
Articles
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2 weeks ago |
theartsdesk.com | Jon Turney
The slightly overwrought subtitle gives a good indication how computer enthusiast Sam Arbesman treats his subject. Software, written in a variety of programming languages whose elements we refer to as code, is ubiquitous. It underlies many parts of modern life, and current efforts look like extending its reach profoundly.
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Mar 14, 2025 |
theartsdesk.com | Jon Turney
Henry Gee’s previous book, A Brief History of Life on Earth, made an interestingly downbeat read for a title that won the UK’s science book prize. He emphasised that a constant feature of that history is extinction. Disappearing is simply what species do. A few endure for an exceptionally long time (hello, horseshoe crabs), but all suffer the same fate in the end. Some at least go down as ancestors of succeeding species. Many more just vanish.
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Feb 10, 2025 |
theartsdesk.com | Jon Turney
Working on materials was basic to human culture from the start: chipping at flint to make a hand-axe; fashioning bone or wood; drying hides. In time, people discovered that some materials, especially when put to trial by fire, were special: harder, shinier, more attractive, or more deadly. Philip Marsden is interested in those materials, yes, but especially in the now-buried traces of their excavation.
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Nov 6, 2024 |
theartsdesk.com | Jon Turney
If you are bothered about climate change – and who isn’t? – you’ll soon come across references to the “energy transition”. Example? Look, here’s one in this week’s New Scientist, a full-page ad from Equinor, the rebranded Norwegian state-owned oil and gas giant. Why is Equinor, now styling itself an energy company, still exploring for new oil and gas deposits?
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Aug 6, 2024 |
podcasts.apple.com | Jon Turney |Bekah McNeel |Bethany Cseh
Bethany and Jon chat with Bekah Mcneel about her book This Is Going To Hurt: Following Jesus In A Divided America
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