Michael Brooks, who holds a PhD
in physics, is an author, journalist, and broadcaster. He is a consultant at New
Scientist, a magazine with over three quarters of a million readers
worldwide, and writes a weekly column for the New Statesman. Brooks
is the author of At the Edge of Uncertainty, The Secret Anarchy of Science
and the bestselling nonfiction title 13 Things that Don’t Make Sense. His writing has also
appeared in the London Observer, Guardian, and Independent, as well as many other newspapers and magazines. He lives in England.
