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is an award-winning British science writer based in Cape Town, South Africa. He is the co-author with John Heilbron of Quantum Drama: From the Bohr-Einstein Debate to the Riddle of Entanglement (2024) ...

is professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine. His latest book is Just and Unjust Uses of Limited Force (2021), and his current book project is ‘The Last Letter: Intimate ...

is a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley and a member of the Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Designated Emphasis programme.