Journalist and podcast host @newscientist.com. Former Tokyoite. Books: SUPERHUMAN (2018) and HOW TO SPEND A TRILLION DOLLARS (2021). Next book: TOGETHERNESS (2026). すごい!
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$1.78 trillion for SpaceX?!
In How To Spend A Trillion Dollars I suggest forming the Terran Alliance (including SpaceX, Blue Origin, ESA, NASA and the Chinese space agency) for $400 billion.
Now I can’t even get Elon’s company for that.
What a great Father's Day gift 😎https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/459006/togetherness-by-hooper-rowan/9781911717140
This week, @marklynas.bsky.social speaks journalist & author @rowhoop.bsky.social about the bad idea that life is all about competition, and his new book Togetherness: Symbiosis and the Hidden Story of Life’s Greatest Collaborations
🎙️ Listen below.
Well I did NOT know that opilionids (the group including daddy long legs) prey on FROGS
You're 7km deep in the ocean, and the lights of your sub pick out bones - a graveyard of fallen whales...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfdh...
When I was in Brazil researching my book I found lots of opilionids, helpful to have a UV torch at night:
Spectacular. Something for @aptshadow.bsky.social here? (Photos: Juan Carlos Narváez, Alexander Bentley, Sergio Cruz, Maida Gutiérrez) Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The Pope visits Sagrada Família on the anniversary of Gaudí's death. Great. How about we use his example of a multi-generation project to tackle the climate and nature crisis www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Such a great line about Spielberg here from @inkerley.bsky.social:
"a sentimentalist who lurches into brief, thrilling bouts of cynicism"
www.newscientist.com/article/2530...
Congratulations and happy publication day to @stevebrusatte.bsky.social - here's our GLOWING review! www.newscientist.com/article/mg27...
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The day has finally come: The Story of Birds is out in the UK! 🇬🇧
We launched it last night at the sparkling new @waterstones.bsky.social at Battersea Power Station. Hosted by fellow bird book author @matthewstadlen.bsky.social
I hope friends in my adopted home of Britain like this book!
