On my way back from a very enjoyable New Scientist Live show, the first IRL one I’ve attended since the scourge of Covid started.

Below are the names of the talks I attended. Plenty of fascinating material in there to inspire future posts, as well as a problematically large number of related books I now want to read.

• The dark history and troubling present of eugenics, by Adam Rutherford.
• The pattern seekers, by Simon Baron-Cohen.
• Making sense of screen time, by Dr. Karl.
• Believing the unbelievable: the science of paranoia and conspiracy thinking, by Nichola Raihani.
• Black holes, by Jeff Forshaw.
• Ultra-processed food, by Chris and Xan van Tulleken.
• A new force of nature? By Harry Cliff.
• The geological record of climate change, by Christopher Jackson.
• DNA family secrets, by Turi King.