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About Joel Levy

Joel Levy is a writer and journalist specialising in science nature and technology for younger audiences. His writing explores both mainstream science and weird technology from chemistry and physics to death-rays and biomimetic robots. After taking degrees in molecular biology and psychology at Warwick and Edinburgh he has gone on to write books including Really Useful the science and history of everyday technology; Poison: A Social History on the science and lore of poisons; Newton's Notebooks on the life and discoveries of Isaac Newton; Phobiapedia an encyclopaedia of the things that scare us most; and A Bee in a Cathedral exploring analogies and thought experiments in science nature and technology.