Timothy Revell

New York

Executive Editor at New Scientist

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New Scientist recommends detective dramedy Ludwig

Oct 30, 2024 | newscientist.com | Timothy Revell

The new BBC series Ludwig seems like a classic murder mystery. Each episode of the six-parter starts with an untimely, odd death and ends with a here’s-how-it-happened moment from a genius sleuth. Yet somehow, it feels fresh, surprising and funny. The story follows John Taylor (David Mitchell, pictured above), a recluse and legendary puzzle setter, known by his pseudonym “Ludwig”. When his identical twin brother James (also Mitchell) disappears, his sister-in-law begs John to help.
The 2024 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding

Oct 11, 2024 | fivebooks.com | Ed Conway |Amitav GhoshAmitav Ghosh |Kate Kitagawa |Timothy Revell

To start, could you tell me about the prize and what kind of nonfiction books you’re looking for for the shortlist? It’s called the ‘British Academy Prize for Global Cultural Understanding’ and people often ask me, ‘What does it mean?’ In many ways, it means something quite straightforward, which is books that help us to understand other places, other cultures, and possibly also what we might owe them.
A note from the executive editor on New Scientist Live

Sep 4, 2024 | newscientist.com | Timothy Revell

Dear readers,New Scientist Live is one of my favourite weekends each year, and so it is with great excitement that IÂ can say it is now just over a month away. On 12 and 13 October, thousands of people will descend on the ExCeL Centre in London toÂ attend what I think we can confidently call the greatest festival of ideas and discoveries in the known universe.
These 7 mathematical facts will blow your mind

Mar 3, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Timothy Revell

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These 7 mathematical facts will blow your mind

Mar 3, 2024 | newscientist.com | Timothy Revell

It will soon be 14 March and that means pi day. We like to mark this annual celebration of the great mathematical constant at New Scientist by remembering some of our favourite recent stories from the world of mathematics. We have extracted a list of surprising facts from them to whet your appetite, but for the full pi day feast click through for the entire articles.
These 7 mathematical facts will blow your mind

Mar 3, 2024 | flipboard.com | Timothy Revell

15 hours agoFarmed at the same time as wheat and barley, the lentil's effect on human society has been less celebrated. Why? Archaeologists digging at an ancient, abandoned settlement at Gurga Chiya in Iraqi Kurdistan had a simple way to tell what was mud wall and what was the interior of a room. The dirt that …
Why free will doesn't exist, according to Robert Sapolsky

Oct 18, 2023 | newscientist.com | Timothy Revell

Robert Sapolsky is one of the most revered scientists alive today. He made his name from his work studying wild baboons in Kenya, unpicking how their complex social lives lead to stress and how that affects their health. His most recent focus, however, has been on something rather different – a book that comprehensively argues that free will doesn’t exist in any shape or form.
New Scientist recommends The Retrievals and Ben Smith's Traffic

Sep 27, 2023 | newscientist.com | Timothy Revell

I’ve recently been captivated by The Retrievals, a podcast from The New York Times and the makers of Serial. It follows the wild case of a nurse who repeatedly stole fentanyl from a fertility clinic and replaced it with saline. It took a long time to uncover what was happening; meanwhile, dozens of women had to undergo in vitro fertilisation (IVF) without receiving any pain-relief medication – though their doctors didn’t know that at the time. I’ve also read a couple of great books.
Sample of "The Secret Lives of Numbers" by Kate Kitagawa, Timothy Revell

Aug 17, 2023 | jellybooks.com | Timothy Revell |Kate Kitagawa

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The Secret Lives Of Numbers

Jun 27, 2023 | arynews.tv | Timothy Revell