Hispanopedia WikiAlun Mark Anderson (born 27 May 1948) is a Welsh scientist and science journalist. He is best known as the editor in chief and publishing director of New Scientist from 1992 to 2005. He continues to act as a consultant for the magazine. In 2009 he published After the Ice:Life, Death, and Geopolitics in the New Arctic, about the effects of climate change on the wildlife and native peoples of the arctic region.[1]
A 2003 interview at the University of Sussex is the likely inspiration for Richard Dawkins' famous quote "Science is interesting and if you don't agree you can fuck off".[2]
References
- āAnderson, Alun (December 2009). After the Ice: Life, Death, and Geopolitics in the New Arctic. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0061579073.
- āKirk, Simon (May 2003). "Interview with Alun Anderson - Editor-in-Chief of New Scientist magazine". University of Sussex. Archived from the original on 26 February 2008. Retrieved 6 May 2015.
External links
- Alun Mark Anderson profile at Debrett's
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- 1948 births
- Living people
- Writers from London
- Alumni of the University of Sussex
- Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
- 20th-century Welsh scientists
- 21st-century Welsh scientists
- 20th-century British writers
- 21st-century Welsh writers
- New Scientist people