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Articles by Amy Charles

Interview
The making of Naturally Obsessed
Richard and Carole Rifkind
Amy Charles 1 November 2009
Review
Tell it true
Naturally Obsessed: The Making of a Scientist
Amy Charles 1 November 2009
Essay
Nobody said you could touch
Stalking mid-century scientists in the name of biography
Amy Charles 13 August 2009
Interview
Explaining the world
Author and scientist Karl Iagnemma
Amy Charles 16 November 2008
Review
But if it were real
The White Road by Tania Hershman
Amy Charles 19 October 2008
Review
Mrs. Oppenheimer's woes
Doctor Atomic by John Adams
Amy Charles 7 September 2008
Essay
The image that draws the writer
Can science images help fiction writers?
Amy Charles 9 February 2008

Coming soon...
- Do robots dream of coffee breaks?
  
  New fiction from Nik Papageorgiou
- Parallel universes
  
  New Zealand scientists and writers come together
- Learning science from fiction
  
  Jon Turney explores the power of the story
- King for a day
  
  New fiction from rpg
- Faking it
  
  Paul Andrews reviews Intuition by Allegra Goodman
Past highlights
- Stardom
  
  Interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson
- The day after today
  
  Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson
- Dr. Flirt
  
  Can a PhD attract women?
- Bad cop
  
  Guardian columnist defrocks the pseudoscientists
- Unkind literature
  
  Lewis Wolpert ponders fictional science bad guys
- The Glider
  
  Martin Raff recalls a childhood bust-up
- Marketing lab lit fiction
  
  An experiment with Waterstone's
- Sex in the lab
  
  What's Kat Arney wearing under her white coat?

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  Jenny 15 Feb 2010
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