Why the Net Matters

The Incognito Cover

Thanks to everyone who voted in the poll! The covers have now been finalized, and here they are:

USA: Pantheon Books	UK: Canongate Books

Thanks again for the suggestions and contributions. For more about Incognito, click here.

Eagleman and Eno perform Sum

Brian Eno and I have twice performed a musical version of Sum, once at the Sydney Opera House, and once at the Brighton Dome. Learn more.
Why I am a Possibilian

Our ignorance of the cosmos is too vast to commit to atheism, and yet we know too much to commit to a particular religion. A third position, agnosticism, is often an uninteresting stance in which a person simply questions whether his traditional religious story is true or not true. I call myself a possibilian. Find out why.
Discovering amulets inside the mummy

I recently posted about my scanning of a 3,000 year old mummy, Neskhons. Now, by analyzing the data in several different ranges of electron density, I've found something unexpected: inside the mummy's torso are 4 small funerary amulets.
Breivik's Brain

What could explain Anders Breivik's shooting attack in Oslo, Norway? While this is debated from the angles of politics, religion, and sociology, I want to ask this from the viewpoint of neurobiology.

Listen to an interview on BBC's Today Programme regarding the new iPad book Why the Net Matters.

Sum was the only book of fiction in New Scientist magazine's selection of Best Books of 2009.

Listen to British rocker Jarvis Cocker read the story "Descent of Species" from Sum. He is one of the dozens of terrific voices who read for the audio book.

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