Dr Adam Rutherford Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Dr Adam Rutherford

Oh I absolutely ADORED this book.

Dr Adam Rutherford

Very lengthy review of my eugenics book Control in the Times Lit Supplement, largely positive but does conclude that I am a moralising guru. FINALLY someone sees my potential as a cult. A total cult.

Dr Adam Rutherford

The Gift of a Radio is my favourite book of 2022 so far. @JustinOnWeb’s memoir of class and social turmoil in the 1970s: sad, funny and sharp, often in the same sentence. I suppose all countries are silly on inspection, but he revels in the particular oddities of England. https://twitter.com/JustinOnWeb/status/1485997603703734278

Dr Adam Rutherford

@philipcball @PeaseRoland @jonWturney @matthewcobb What a delight! And on 20th September, Matthew will be on Start the Week, alongside Alison Bashford talking about the Huxleys, the PR still done by Annabel, and presented by. me! https://t.co/M2mtrXGfpB

Dr Adam Rutherford

This morning I dreamt that I was presenting #StartTheWeek on @BBCRadio4 but they changed all the topics and guests at 08:45 to be about the lyrics of Bob Dylan. Nothing to do with the fact that I’m presenting Start the Week next Monday. 😳

Dr Adam Rutherford

Reading the excellent Empire of Pain by @praddenkeefe and - rather prosaically - if Mortimer and Raymond Sackler are the models for Mortimer and Randolph Duke from Trading Places and Coming to America. https://t.co/dXZmvHgFN2

Dr Adam Rutherford

10 comics to know me 1. The Death Ray - Daniel Clowes 2. Hellblazer Hard Times 3. Batman Year One 4. Wytches @Jock4twenty 5. Icehaven Daniel Clowes 6. Spider-Man annual 1979 7. Top Ten/49ers Alan Moore 8. The Killing Joke Alan Moore 9. From Hell Alan Moore 10. Dark Phoenix Saga https://t.co/MHoatvWUrM

Dr Adam Rutherford

There’s been a flurry of truly outstanding biology books (@WaspWoman @nicholaraihani) in the great UCL popularising tradition - Haldane, Medawar, Jones). Nick Lane is in that top tier, and has slipped out another belter, a stone cold classic.

Dr Adam Rutherford

Gimme some songs that relate to eugenics/replacement theory, either in title or theme (can be vague): * Bad Blood by Taylor Swift * Last of the Great American Dynasties by Taylor Swift * She's lost Control Again by Joy Division * This Land is Your Land by Woody Guthrie

Dr Adam Rutherford

Novels: Leviathan, Paul Auster Gatsby Slaughterhouse 5 Piranesi, Susanna Clarke Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison Nostromo, Joseph Conrad The Periodic Table, Primo Levi Birdsong The Death Ray, Daniel Clowes The Secret History, Donna Tartt https://t.co/cXl5s7N9FF