In this episode, Andrew Glester is joined by Physics World journalists to discuss some of 2020’s best physics books, along with their favourite examples of physics featuring in television and film this year. For more information about all of the media discussed, you can revisit these reviews that have appeared in Physics World during 2020.
You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place) by Janelle Shane
Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World) by David Kaiser
Synchronicity: the Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effect) by Paul Halpern
The TV show Devs)
The Smallest Lights in the Universe: a Memoir) by Sara Seager
Why Trust Science?) by Naomi Oreskes
The film Proxima)
For Small Creatures Such As We: Rituals and Reflections for Finding Wonder) by Sasha Sagan