I love, love, love, love, love the Edinburgh Fringe and had the opportunity to be there in 2016 as a writer for a Wellcome Trust-funded project, The Sick of the Fringe. The idea was to choose performances and then write about them, not as a reviewer, but to diagnose themes of health, medicine, disability and…
Category: BOOKS
Arabick Roots: the shared eastern and western origins of today’s hi-tech world explored in an original exhibition at the Royal Society and in Doha
How did the golden age of eastern science impact on the scholars of the Enlightenment in the west? When Syrian-born physicist Dr Rim Turkmani turned to the archives of the Royal Society in London to find out, she discovered a wealth of east-west links which she explored in an exhibition, Arabick Roots, a 1001 Inventions…
1001 Inventions: the enduring legacy of Muslim civilisation published in its third edition by National Geographic
Who first discovered the nature of light? When was the oldest-surviving map showing America drawn? How did people a thousand years ago make breakthroughs in treating disease?The 1001 Inventions book, in its third edition, was published by National Geographic in 2012 with an updated design and lots of lovely extras. This book accompanies the 1001…