Author: Benjamin Brooks
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Museum Lecture: “The Beast in the Cellar”
At the height of the 2013 “Museums at Night” festival, I gave a talk to members of the public and friends of the Lyme Regis Museum, here I give a little bit of background and link you to that talk, I hope you all enjoy it!
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Science Summaries
Just a very inarticulate articulation of a (possibly) very bad idea!
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Some Museum-ey Stuff and The PodQuest
Another long rambling post where I talk about museum stuff, and introduce you to one of this year’s side projects… The PodQuest!
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A discussion of failures.
For me November has been a month of new experiences and learning curves. I started this month with the high minded idea (along with thousands of other people all over the world) of writing a 50,000 word manuscript for a novel in under a month. I failed; miserably. After the first week and a half…
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NaNoWriMo… Day the Third
A Post containing the third chapter of my NaNoWriMo novel… I hope you enjoy it!
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NaNoWriMo, Call of Cthulhu and Character Creation
In which I talk about the way I’m going about character creation for my NaNoWriMo experiment!
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The L’Aquila prosecutions; a dangerous precedent?
In a landmark legal case in Italy yesterday, six scientists and one politician were convicted and sentenced for manslaughter charges. Benjamin Brooks looks at the case and what precedents it might set. (Originally written for The Graduate Times)
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What happens when a scientist tries to write a novel?
Today I talk a little bit about a small challenge I’m undertaking over the next month or so.
