Columns

Some inventions change our lives in unimaginable ways. Others are doomed to failure. Adam-Hart Davis takes a look at some of the latter.

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Ever wonder how words qualify for the dictionary? Susie Dent considers the strange history of "bouncebackability", a word that links Crystal Palace to Hillary Clinton.

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Archimedes famously ran down the streets of Syracuse naked crying out "Eureka"—but what had he discovered and why was it so important? Johnny Ball revisits the achievements of the Eureka Streaker.

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Johnny Ball is a BAFTA-award winning popularizer of mathematics and sciences whose television shows included Think of a Number and Johnny Ball Reveals All. He continues to make appearances and lectures throughout the country.

Susie is the resident word expert on Channel 4’s Countdown programme as well as the author of several books on language change and new words, including The Language Report, published annually by Oxford University Press.

Adam is a photographer, writer, and broadcaster, who has presented over 200 television programmes (including What the Romans did for us), radio programmes, and written several books on science and history.

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