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Category Archives: Reviews

Once Upon a Prime – Book Review

My thoughts on Sarah Hart’s excellent book, Once Upon a Prime.

A version of this review was first published in the June 2024 edition of Mathematics Today, the magazine of the Institute of mathematics & its applications.

Posted byDan Roach10th July 202427th July 2024Posted inMathematics, Reviews, Science, WritingTags:Book Review, IMA, Literature, Mathematics, Mathematics Today, Sarah HartLeave a comment on Once Upon a Prime – Book Review

Royal Society

My first visit to The Royal Society, home of Pepys, Newton, Rutherford…

Posted byDan Roach13th May 202427th July 2024Posted inFlying, Mathematics, Motivational, Reviews, Science, UniversityTags:Alison Etheridge, IMA, M500 Society, Mathematics, Newton, Open University, Pepys, Rutherford, Science, The Royal SocietyLeave a comment on Royal Society

Vermisst Missing in Russia – Book Review

Jonathan Nicolas’s superb account of the life of a fighter pilot on the eastern front in World War 2.

Posted byDan Roach23rd December 202320th January 2024Posted inFlying, Reviews, WritingTags:author, Aviation, Book Review, Eastern Front, Flying, Jonathan Nicolas, Luftwaffe, Pilot, Russia, Vermisst, WW2Leave a comment on Vermisst Missing in Russia – Book Review

Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer is a powerful new film from Christopher Nolan. I watched it and these are my thoughts on what I saw.

Posted byDan Roach23rd July 202312th August 2023Posted inFilm, Reviews, ScienceTags:Atomic Bomb, Christopher Nolan, Cillian Murphy, Florence Pugh, Matt Damon, Nuclear Bomb, Oppenheimer, OppenheimerFilm, OppenheimerMovie, Review, Science3 Comments on Oppenheimer

The Write Stuff

Despite my “stellar” grades in GCSE English from all those years ago, I somehow ended up at science journalism summer school…

Posted byDan Roach8th July 202326th July 2023Posted inHumour, Motivational, Reviews, Science, University, WritingTags:ABSW, ABSWSS23, author, Journalism, KCL, Open University, Science Writing, WritingLeave a comment on The Write Stuff

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