what’s new, 2021

December 2021

31st • SF • Natalie Angier • The Beauty of the Beastly
31st • SF • Tim Akers • Knight Watch
30th • complexity • Helga Nowotny • The Cunning of Uncertainty
28th • Dr Who • Robert Shearman, Toby Hadoke • Running Through Corridors 1
26th • writing • Marc Zender • Writing and Civilization

November 2021

20th • engineering • Stephen Ressler • Everyday Engineering

October 2021

18th • NSC • Robot Narratives, abstract
18th • NSC • Computing with Magnetic Thin Films, abstract
18th • NSC • Non-instantaneous Information Transfer in Physical Reservoir Computing, abstract
17th • psychology • Todd Rose • The End of Average
16th • SF • Ryk E. Spoor • Shadows of Hyperion
7th • NSC • Mechanical computing, abstract
5th • maths • Mircea Pitici • The Best Writing on Mathematics 2013

September 2021

14th • SF • Benedict Jacka • Burned
11th • astronomy • Emily Levesque • Great Heroes and Discoveries in Astronomy

August 2021

22nd • SF • Charlie Jane Anders • All the Birds in the Sky
8th • NSC • Reservoir Computing in Material Substrates, abstract
4th • NSC • Nothing in evolution makes sense except in the light of parasitism, full paper
2nd • lifestyle • Anna McGovern • Pottering. A Cure for Modern Life

July 2021

31st • medicine • Barry C. Fox • An Introduction to Infectious Diseases
25th • SF • Laura Anne Gilman • Hard Magic
22nd • NSC • What is a Parasite?, full paper
19th • NSC • Modelling and measuring open-endedness, full paper
10th • film • Yesterday
9th • detective • Donna Leon • Death at La Fenice
9th • NSC • Computing with Open Dynamical Systems, abstract
1st • SF TV • Timeless, finale

June 2021

29th • SF TV • Timeless, season 2
27th • SF • Martha Wells • Fugitive Telemetry
25th • mystery fiction • David Schmid • The Secrets of Great Mystery and Suspense Fiction
20th • events • Priya Parker • The Art of Gathering
14th • SF • Seanan McGuire • Middlegame
3rd • politics/systems • Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer • The Gardens of Democracy
2nd • SF TV • Timeless, season 1

May 2021

23rd • computers • Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths • Algorithms to Live By
9th • SF TV • Westworld, season 3
2nd • detective • Laurie R. King • Dreaming Spies
2nd • engineering • Stephen Ressler • Understanding the World’s Greatest Structures

April 2021

19th • SF TV • Once Upon a Time, season 6
18th • SF • Mur Lafferty • Six Wakes
10th • NSC • “A Good Algorithm Does Not Steal – It Imitates”: The Originality Report, abstract
1st • SF TV • The Good Place, season 4

March 2021

31st • economics • Kate Raworth • Doughnut Economics
27th • SF • Katy B. Wagers • Out Past the Stars
21st • detective • Sue Grafton • A is for Alibi
21st • SF • Paul Cornell • Last Stand in Lychford
18th • linguistics • John McWhorter • Language A to Z
14th • SF • Sharon Lee, Steve Miller • Accepting the Lance
13th • SF film • Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain
6th • film • Under the Rainbow
4th • SF TV • Westworld, season 2

February 2021

27th • NSC • Nothing in evolution makes sense except in the light of parasites, bioRXiv paper
21st • science/SF • Charles Adler • How Science Shapes Science Fiction
14th • SF TV • The Orville, season 2

January 2021

29th • NSC • Reservoir Computing with Thin-film Ferromagnetic Devices, arXiv paper
23rd • language • Spencer Kelly • Language and the Mind
3rd • SF • Kate Milford • Greenglass House

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