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Dan Falk (born 1966) is a Canadian science journalist, broadcaster, and author. He has written for The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, The Walrus, Cottage Life, SkyNews, Astronomy and New Scientist, and has contributed to the CBC radio programs Ideas, Quirks and Quarks, Tapestry and Spark.

He has published three books:

Universe on a T-Shirt was the winner of the 2002 Science in Society Journalism Award from the Canadian Science Writers’ Association, as well as the John and Margaret Savage First Book Award, part of the Atlantic Book Awards. In 2015, Falk was the winner of the Science in Society Journalism Award for his article Getting Smarter, published in the University of Toronto Magazine.[1] In 2019, Falk was the winner of the Sandford Fleming Medal for Excellence in Science Communication, awarded by the Royal Canadian Institute for Science.[2]

Dan co-hosts the podcast, BookLab, with Amanda Gefter which reviews popular science books and explores the topics raised by the authors.[2]

Education

Mr Falk graduated from the University of Toronto with an MA in the history and philosophy of science in 2014. For the academic year 2011–2012 he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.[3] He also graduated from Ryerson University with a BAA Journalism in 1992 and received a BSC (physics) from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Bibliography

Books

  • Falk, Dan (2002). The universe on a t-shirt: the quest for the Theory of Everything. Toronto: Penguin/Arcade.
  • — (2008). In Search of Time: Journeys Along a Curious Dimension. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart/St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-7710-4757-2.
  • — (2014). The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright's Universe. New York: Thomas Dunne Books. ISBN 9781250008770.

Articles

  • Falk, Dan (Jan 2013). "Time warped". Phenomenon. Smithsonian. 43 (9): 16.

References

  1. ^ "Science Writers and Communicators of Canada - CSWA Science in Society Award Winners!". sciencewriters.ca. Retrieved 2021-01-22.
  2. ^ a b "2019 Fleming Medal for Excellence in Science Communication". Royal Canadian Institute for Science. Retrieved 2019-11-14.
  3. ^ "Dan Falk". Knight Science Journalism @MIT. Retrieved 2021-01-22.


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