I’ll start with some very happy news, which is that BioQuip, an old and much-loved biological supply company, is now selling A Basic Glossary of Invertebrate Zoology. I pitched it to them last year, hoping they would list the book among… Read More ›
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Pacific Nations Try Banning Certain Foods
One can understand the frustration. Decades after the genetics of Pacific peoples collided with high-calorie, low-nutrition (i.e., “junk”) food, leading to astronomical rates of obesity and all its lethal effects (especially diabetes and heart disease), little to no progress has… Read More ›
Announcing a New Book about Ray Komai, on the 75th Anniversary of Order 9066
Today is the 75th anniversary of the signing by President Franklin Roosevelt of Executive Order 9066, which authorized the wartime relocation of people of Japanese descent away from the American west coast and into inland internment camps. Eventually, over 117,000… Read More ›
John Hoskyns Interview, 1984
Miriam Hoskyns, who assisted so much with The Wiring Diagram, sent me the following video of her husband being interviewed on BBC4’s “Face The Press” in 1984. The presenter is Anthony Howard, and with him are Hugo Young of The Guardian and Michael Elliot… Read More ›
The Best Salad I’ve Ever Made
I received great positive feedback about my book, Six Nine, Two Ten, but one complaint I heard more than once was that I didn’t include any recipes. It had never crossed my mind when writing it that people would want the… Read More ›
New Release & Free Kindle Editions Until 12/18
Yay! After a year I have finished “The Wiring Diagram,” which is about a historical document from the papers of Margaret Thatcher at Churchill College of the University of Cambridge. The Kindle version of it will be free for the… Read More ›
New Proof in the Mail!
After almost year of work, my new book is almost done! Its title is “The Wiring Diagram, The One-Page Beacon for Britain by John Hoskyns, Thatcher’s Top Policy Advisor.” Today I received the printed proof, and as soon as I… Read More ›
Changing Interior Files on CreateSpace
In scientific publishing, once an article is published, it cannot be changed, even if it only appears in electronic format. This makes sense, and I agree that this policy is important for the integrity of scientific communication and credit, as well as… Read More ›
Kirkus: “an inspiring call to arms to transform one’s diet”
I received my first Kirkus review today, for Six Nine, Two Ten. I am very happy with the review, which was not guaranteed to be positive. In fact, given that reviews are often negative, Kirkus allows authors to decide if reviews is ever published. But… Read More ›
Dutch Men and Latvian Women are the Tallest
A new study by an enormous team of scientists, published in the journal eLife, shows that the Netherlands has, on average, the tallest men in the world (a bit over six feet), and Latvia the tallest women (around five feet, seven inches)…. Read More ›
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