Physics World Stories Podcast

The best of physics in books, TV and film in 2020

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In this episode, Andrew Glester is joined by Physics World journalists to discuss some of 2020’s best physics books, along with their favourite examples of physics featuring in television and film this year. For more information about all of the media discussed, you can revisit these reviews that have appeared in Physics World during 2020.

  • You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place by Janelle Shane
  • Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World by David Kaiser
  • Synchronicity: the Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effect by Paul Halpern
  • The TV show Devs
  • The Smallest Lights in the Universe: a Memoir by Sara Seager
  • Why Trust Science? by Naomi Oreskes
  • The film Proxima
  • For Small Creatures Such As We: Rituals and Reflections for Finding Wonder by Sasha Sagan
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