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Superpower sleuth
Zak Penn and Michael Karnow created Alphas; they have a lot of experience in the world of comic books. [...]three months later, when we've finished the script, we will find it is already happening - we learn about it as scientific papers are picked up rapidly online and in the popular press.
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Q&A: Comic creator
Jim Ottaviani is the author of several comic books about famous scientists. His latest, with illustrations by Leland Myrick, covers the life of physicist Richard Feynman, who is known for his bongo playing and enthusiastic lectures as much as his work on quantum mechanics. Ottaviani explains why a graphic-novel format is a perfect match for such a zany character.
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Comic creator
Q&A Jim Ottaviani Jim Ottaviani is the author of several comic books about famous scientists. 272 pp. £18.99, $29.99 Why did you decide to write comic books about science? Feynman was astute, even aggressive, about creating a myth about himself, turning his life into a sort of performance art.
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Pioneers of sound
Created in 1958, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop produced electronic sounds for radio and television franchises, including landmark science-fiction series such as Quatermass, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and, most enduringly, the signature tune for Doctor Who. Later, many studio hands left for better-paid jobs at private companies - among them such seminal individuals in the history of electronic music as Delia Derbyshire and Daphne Oram, the latter of whom went on to influence film and opera and develop new instruments.
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Music: Pioneers of sound
Two books chart the laboratory origins of avant-garde electronic music, finds Marc Weidenbaum.
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Gail Wight, artist of science
Wight's book marks the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species, and the result is a leather-bound, letterpress-printed journal not unlike the one in which Darwin made the notes that eventually became The Voyage of the Beagle. Ultimately, she reserves her strongest critique not for scientists, but for her fellow artists, saying: \"I have a lot of problems with the contemporary idea that an artist can enter into the world of science and practise science on living creatures without any of the background that should come with that.\"
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Q&A: Superpower sleuth
The US television series
Alphas
features an unusual breed of superhero: ordinary people with extreme abilities. In the run-up to the second season, head writer Bruce Miller explains how he sifts through the latest scientific findings to craft an array of superpowers
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