by Dana Mackenzie | Nov 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
If any of you have visited my book’s page on Amazon recently, you have seen a scary message like this one: “Available only through third-party vendors.” I don’t see that message today, but the page still does not say “In Stock,” nor...
by Dana Mackenzie | Oct 24, 2018 | Books, Mathematics
Once upon a time, I wrote a book. Interestingly, the idea for the book was not mine. A book packager named Elwin Street Productions, in London, came to me with a proposal for a history of the greatest equations in mathematics. The book came out in 2012 as The Universe...
by Dana Mackenzie | Aug 30, 2018 | Book of Why, Books, Causation, Events, Santa Cruz
Today Jen Golbeck’s interview with Judea and me for the Science (magazine) Podcast went up, and you can listen to it here. (Alternatively, for the next 7 days, you can also go to the main Science magazine website at www.sciencemag.org and scroll down to the...
by Dana Mackenzie | Aug 17, 2018 | Book of Why, Events
The American Association for the Advancement of Science, publishers of Science magazine, also have a weekly podcast, called (of course) the Science Podcast. I’m pleased to announce that The Book of Why will be the featured book two weeks from now, in the last...
by Dana Mackenzie | Jul 21, 2018 | Book of Why, Books, Causation, Events
Earlier this week I gave a presentation based on The Book of Why at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley, where I have been a journalist in residence for the last eight weeks. It was very similar to my presentation at the Aptos Library in...