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From: Intelligence Squared <info@intelligencesquared.com> To: j leevacation@gmail.com> Subject: Making complex tech simple: last few tickets remaining Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 14:44:21 +0000 teingenix 21.unvaru to a IIICIIU V icw rO ornwser r IIw ; b itandall Munroe on Making the Complicated Simple Monday 2nd Oct, 7pm, Emmanuel Centre Speakers 'If you can't explain something simply, you don't understand iL '— ;11 Randall Munroe Bill Gates Creator of webcomic xkcd and former NASA roboticist. He has been nominated for three Is there a simple way of understanding the most complex scientific Hugo Awards (the top prize in the sci-fi and tech and technological discoveries? Is it possible to grasp without world) and won 'Best Graphic Story in 2014. complicated technical jargon exactly how a smartphone works, for Wired magazine chose xkcd as a key influence instance, or what drives a data centre or a particle collider? of the last 20 years. alongside Steve Jobs and online dating. The International Astronomical We have never been surrounded by so much technology, yet have Union recently named an asteroid after him; never understood so little what makes that technology work. To asteroid 4942 Munroe is big enough to cause a help unpack the inner workings of the innovations that underpin mass extinction if it ever hits a planet like Earth. our tech age. Intelligence Squared are bringing together two of the world's best-loved science popularisers: Randall Munroe, the Vr Marcus du Sautoy former NASA roboticist whose webcomic xkcd gets a billion hits a One of the country's best known science year, and uses clear visual illustrations to make scientific concepts broadcasters. He is Professor of Mathematics at accessible; and Marcus du Sautoy, the Oxford Professor for the Oxford University, where he holds the Public Understanding of Science, who has won a large following prestigious Simonyi Chair for the Public through his bestselling books and TV programmes, which explain Understanding of Science. He has presented the elegance and complexity of mathematics. In conversation with numerous programmes on television and radio, broadcaster Dr Xand van Tulleken, they will lift the lid on the including the internationally acclaimed BBC technology we love and the cutting edge of scientific research series The Story of Maths. His bestselling books today. include The Music of the Primes, The Number Mysteries and, most recently, What We Cannot Join Munroe and du Sautoy on October 2nd for a far-reaching Know: From Consciousness to the Cosmos. the exploration of the technology that drives our everyday lives, and Cutting Edge of Science Explained. have your chance to put your questions to two of the sharpest minds in science. Chair Praise for Randall Munroe Dr Xand van Tulleken Medical doctor and broadcaster who has presented numerous A brilliant concept... If you know Munroe's previous work, it will shows for the BBC and Channel 4, often alongside his twin come as no surprise that parts of Thing Explainer are laugh-out- brother Chris. Their 2014 BBC1 Horizon programme on the Sugar loud funny... filled with cool basic knowledge about how the world V Fat debate opened up a major health debate. Xand has also works. Randall Munroe is the perfect guy to take on a project like fronted Blow Your Mind. Secret Life of Twins and Medicine Men this.' - Bill Gates Gone Wild, and his book How to Lose Weight Well, which EFTA00640724  accompanied the TV series, went straight to the dxkcd is nerd royally. the alpha dork, there's no geek more widely top of the Amazon book charts. cited and loved. Anyone from the blinkered literati world of publishing who doesn't know this should be sacked and blamed for the tragic. avoidable decline of their industry...-. Ben Goldacre, author of Bad Science P ,race000K r%.I Witter ~baa(f let Cal I LIDC sounaciona larr 1.4 Intelligence Squared is proudly supported by its media partner VANITY FAIR Ilasulasalhe Intelligence' Ltd, Newcombe House, 45 Notting Hill Gate, London WII 3LQ Copyright (43 Intelligence' Ltd. All rights reserved. EFTA00640725