Battle of Ideas 2013 | speaker

Angela Saini is an award-winning British science journalist. Her first book Geek Nation: How Indian Science is Taking Over the World was published by Hodder in 2011, becoming a bestseller in India, and an Independent book of the year. She is now working on her second book, which will be about scientific research on women.

Angela frequently presents science shows on BBC radio and her writing appears in Science, The Guardian and New Scientist.
Between 2012 and 2013 she was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Tuesday 1 October 2013, 6.30pm Foyles Charing Cross, 113-119 Charing Cross Road, London WC2H 0EB

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Geek Nation: How Indian Science is Taking Over the World (Hodder & Stoughton, 2011)

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"The 2012 Battle of Ideas at the Barbican was the best ever. It was bustling with interesting people, punchy debates and new ideas. I can't wait for 2013's."
Philippe Legrain, adviser to José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission

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