Eureka: Discovering Your Inner (New) Scientist

Two new items about Eureka: Discovering Your Inner Scientist:

1) WAMC has now posted the interview I did with Joe Donahue on The Roundtable. This was a fun interview, and covers a number of examples from the book, so I think gives you a really nice sense of what it's all about.

2) There's a review of Eureka in New Scientist, along with two other books. It's fun to see all these different publications do reviews, because every reviewer latches onto a different example to feature. You can almost deduce the entire contents of the book if you read all of the different reviews...

The New Scientist review is timed to coincide with the official release of the UK edition, which is next week. Amazon UK seems to be shipping already, though, so don't feel like you need to wait until Thursday...

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