Personal scientific publications for the 2010's

Papers, books, lectures and academic reviews.

See full bibliographies for 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 or 2010.

(updated periodically) 

BJF, 2010, Culturing Meat for the Future: Anti-death versus anti-life, [chapter in] Tandy, Charles (editor)
Death And Anti-Death, Volume 7, Palo Alto: Ria University Press. Published 2010, imprimatur 2009.

BJF, 2010, A New Era of Whole Cell Biology, Biologist 57 (1): 9-11, February.

BJF, 2010, Single Cell intelligence (with colour photographs), Mensa Magazine: 6-7, February.

BJF, 2010, illustrated presentations aboard the Cunard: RMS Queen Mary 2, World Cruise sector, Exploring the Pacific Rim:

• Amazing Menu of Tomorrow, Illuminations theatre, 1530-1615h, 14 February.
• Secret Language of Life, Illuminations theatre, 1530-1615h, 20 February.
• Danger, Expert at Large, Illuminations theatre, 1100-1145h, 21 February.
• Worst Cruise Videos, and How Not to Make One, Illuminations theatre, 1530-1615h, 23 February.
• How the Internet can Steal your Identity, Illuminations theatre, 1530-1615h, 26 February.
• You Choose the Lecture, Illuminations theatre, 1530-1615h, 1 March.
  Also: television interview by Paul O'Loughlin, Morning Programme (tape in archive): 20 February.

  Sailing: Hong Kong, China; Shanghai, China; Nagasaki, Japan; Yokohama, Japan; Hagåtaña, Guam, Mariana Islands; Rabaul, Papua New Guinea; Airlie Beach, Whitsunday Islands, Australia; Auckland, New Zealand; Paihia, Bay of Islands, New Zealand; Sydney, Australia. 13 February - 8 March.

BJF, 2010, Expert Bookshelf, Cells and Microbes, Focus magazine: 89, March

BJF, 2010, The Secret Power of the Single Cell, New Scientist 26-27, 24 April.

BJF, 2010, Critical Focus column (1): The Royal Society turns 350, The Microscope 58 (1): 35-40.

BJF, 2010, The Cheat and the Microscope - Plagiarism over the Centuries, The Microscope 58 (1): 21-32.

BJF, 2010, presentations for Inter Micro 10:

• An Evening with Brian: Censoring the Cell and Banishing the Microscope, 1900-2000h, 12 July.
• How Microscopic Particles Shut Down the Airways, 1130-1150h 13 July.
• The Microscope and the Royal Society, 1415-1435h, 14 July.
  McCrone Research Instute, Chicago.

BJF, 2010, Thirty Years of Mensa at Cambridge, after-dinner speech, Mensa gala dinner, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University, 2030-2110h, 21 August.

BJF, 2010, Concerning the Abilities of Living Cells, illustrated presentation to Mensa at Cambridge, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University, 1400-1530h, 22 August.

BJF, 2010, address on cultured meat to Vegetarian Society debate at annual meeting, London: Dragon Hall, Covent Garden, 1630h, 11 September (in preparation).

BJF, 2010, Critical Focus column (2): Inventing Life, or Reality? The Microscope 58 (2): in press.

BJF, 2010, Illustrated presentations aboard Cunard: RMS Queen Mary 2 Mediterranean Medley cruise: (to be announced)

Sailing: Southampton, UK - Barcelona, Spain - Monte Carlo, France - Civitavecchia (for Rome), Italy - Naples, Italy - Gibraltar - Lisbon, Portugal - Southampton, UK. 19 September - 1 October.

BJF, 2010, Presidential address to Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (to be announced), Churchill College Cambridge, 1900-2100h, 18 October (in preparation).

BJF, 2010, Revolutonary Insights - the Dawn of Microscopical Investigation, illustrated presentation wth videomicrographs to the Royal Society, 1330-1430h, 29 October (in preparation).

BJF, 2010, Plagiarism, Scourge or Solace? illustrated presentation to the Friends of the University Library, Camvbridge University, 27 November (in preparation).

BJF, 2010, reviews Samuel Fallours, Facsimile of Tropical Fishes of the East Indies, Cologne: Raschen, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (in press).

BJF, 2010, reviews The Quest for the Invisible - Microscopy in the Enlightenment, by Marc. J Radcliffe, ISBN 978-0-7546-6150-4, xii + 315 pp, Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, Biologist (in press).

BJF, 2010, reviews The World of Carolus Clusius: Natural History in the Making, 1550-1610 by Florike Egmond. ISBN-10: 1848930089, ISBN-13: 978-1848930087, 312 pages, London: Pickering & Chatto Ltd, Biologist (in press).

BJF, 2010, reviews Charles Darwin, the Concise Story of an Extraordinary Man, by Tim Berra, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009, Linnean Society (in press).

BJF, 2010, Lectures aboard Fred Olsen Cruise Line, M/V Balmoral Canary Islands Christmas cruise (to be announced).

Sailing: Southampton, UK - Lisbon, Portugal - Arrecife, Lanzarote - Puerto del Rosario, Fuerteventura - Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands - Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands - Santa Cruz de la Palma, Canary Islands - Funchal, Madeira - Southampton, UK.
21 December 2010 - 5 January 2011.

BJF, 2011, reviews The Quest for the Invisible - Microscopy in the Enlightenment, by Marc. J Radcliffe, ISBN 978-0-7546-6150-4, xii + 315 pp, Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, Biologist (in press).

BJF, 2011, reviews The World of Carolus Clusius: Natural History in the Making, 1550-1610 by Florike Egmond. ISBN-10: 1848930089, ISBN-13: 978-1848930087, 312 pages, London: Pickering & Chatto Ltd, Biologist (in press).

BJF, 2010-2011, Lectures aboard Fred Olsen Cruise Line, M/S Balmoral 'Canary Islands Christmas' cruise:

• Mystery of the Christmas Snowflake, Neptune Lounge, 1100h, 22 December.
• A Scientist looks at Christmas, Neptune Lounge, 1500h, 24 December.
• Danger - Expert at Large, Neptune Lounge, 1500h, 1 January 2011.
• The Secret Language of Life, Neptune Lounge, 1100h, 3 January 2011
• You Choose the Subject:
  1. Creationism -v- evolution
  2. Religion: a force for good?
  3. Sunspot cycle
  4. Could we exist without chemicals?
  5. Space travel and extraterrestrial life
  6. The periodic table
  7. Power of placebo, faith healing, etc
  8. Is global warming man-made?Neptune Lounge, 1000h, 4 January 2011.
  
  Sailing: Southampton, UK - Lisbon, Portugal - Arrecife, Lanzarote - Puerto del Rosario, Fuerteventura - Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands - Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands - Santa Cruz de la Palma, Canary Islands - Funchal, Madeira - Southampton, UK. 21 December 2010 - 5 January 2011.

Austin, Natasha, 2011, Eastrea Trust announces Junior Trainees (with photograph of Tegan Green and George Nutt), Discovering Whittlesey magazine: 7, January.

BJF, 2010, Critical Focus (4): The good guide to bad lectures, The Microscope 58 (4): 167-172.

BJF, 2011, reviews Hemlut Schnelle, 2010, Language in the Brain, The Biologist, 58 (1): 41, March.

BJF, 2011, Lectures aboard Cunard, MS Queen Victoria 'Gallic overture' voyage,

• GM crops - Looking for the Truth [extemporised talk due to technical failure], Royal Court Theatre, 1100-1145h, 23 May.
• You Choose the Subject, [extemporised talk due to technical failure], Queen's Room, 1215-1300h, 26 May, followed by book signing, 1500-1530h
• Ingenious Microbes, [extract of presentation for passengers] with book signing, 1600-1645h, 28 May. See also: reports in Cunard Daily programme, 23 May, 26 May; item on 'Wake up with Keith' TV show, 26 May.

  Sailing: Southampton, UK, Dublin, Ireland; Cobh (for Cork), Ireland; Bilbao, Spain; Brest, France; Southampton, UK. 22-29 May.

BJF, 2010, Critical Focus (5): The Leeuwenhoek specimens, The Microscope 59 (1): 11-19.

BJF, 2011, Outreach public lecture: The Genius of the Cell, Royal Cololege of Surgeons of Dublin, 1900-200h, 8 June.

BJF, 2011, Intelligent Living Cell, Cheltenham Science Festival, Town hall, Cheltenham, 1800-1900h, 12 June.

BJF, 2001, Presentations at Inter/Micro 2011:

• (In memoriam, Lucy McCrone, 1930-1935h, 19 July)
• An Evening with Brian: Microbe Meals, 1900-2000h, 20 July.
• Blood Through the Ages, 1500-1530h, 21 July.
• Illegal Coinage, 1130-1200h, 22 July.
  McCrone Research Insritute, Chicago.

BJF, 2011, New theory on Human Origins, Laboratory News: 24-25, July [see also leader column by Phil Prime, p 2, and front page promotion].

BJF, 2011, Critical Focus (6): Cultured meat; food for the future, The Microscope 59 (2): 73-81.

BJF, 2011, [new edition in simplified Chinese] Sensitive Souls, Senses and Communuication in Plants, Animals and Microbes, ISBN 978-7-300-13877-0, People's Republic of China, Renmin University Press, July.

38. Ford, Brian J., 2011, Secret Weapons, Technology, Science and the Race to win WWII, 288 pp, ISBN 978 1 84908 390 4, Oxford, Osprey Publishing, 20 September.

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