by Dana Mackenzie | Jan 9, 2019 | Articles, Book of Why, Books, Causation
Yesterday Judea Pearl, my co-author, sent me a link to a fascinating article that I consider to be even better than a book review. It is something that every author dreams of — positive evidence that our book is making a difference in the real world. In the...
by Dana Mackenzie | May 8, 2018 | Articles, Books, Events
Publication date for The Book of Why is now just one week away! Here are some upcoming events and articles about our book. May 9: An interview of Judea will be published at Quanta. I will provide a link to the article as soon as it comes out. This is a...
by Dana Mackenzie | Jun 18, 2013 | Articles
For years there has been one writing credit missing from my resume. I like to tell people that I have written for all the magazines that have “Science” in the title: Science, American Scientist, New Scientist, Science News (assuming you count their Web...
by Dana Mackenzie | Dec 14, 2012 | Articles
Today I had an article published that was a little bit out of the ordinary, or perhaps way out of the ordinary for me. It’s called The Departed Queen, and it was posted on a website called Story Collider. It’s about the best chess game of my life, along...
by Dana Mackenzie | Nov 19, 2012 | Articles, Books, Mathematics
A new review of The Universe in Zero Words has been posted on The Math Less Traveled, a blog by Brent Yorgey. I love it when I see a review that is completely, 100 percent positive, because then I don’t have to reply to anything, I can just tell you to go read...
by Dana Mackenzie | Nov 1, 2012 | Articles, Mathematics
I’m delighted to share the news that I wrote an article that appears in this month’s (November 2012) issue of Smithsonian, the one with a picture of Abraham Lincoln on the cover. One of the regular departments in Smithsonian is called...
