Dan Falk
{{short description|Canadian science journalist, broadcaster, and author}}
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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.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}
Biography
Falk received a BSc in physics from Dalhousie University in 1990, and a bachelor's degree in journalism from Ryerson University in 1992. In 2014 he graduated from the University of Toronto with an MA in the history and philosophy of science.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}} His maternal grandfather was the artist Moi Ver.[https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/community/articles/vilnius-through-my-grandfathers-lens Falk, Dan "Vilnius Through My Grandfather's Lens" (Sept. 2019)]
For the academic year 2011–2012 he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.{{Cite web |title=Dan Falk |url=https://ksj.mit.edu/alumni/dan-falk/ |access-date=2024-01-09 |website=Knight Science Journalism @MIT |language=en-US}}
His book Universe on a T-Shirt: The Quest for the Theory of Everything 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.[https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/authors/76388/dan-falk Penguin Random House Canada "Dan Falk"] In 2015, Falk was the winner of the Science in Society Journalism Award for his article "Getting Smarter" in the University of Toronto Magazine.{{cite web |title=CSWA Science in Society Award Winners! |url=https://sciencewriters.ca/page-966358/4000394 |access-date=2024-01-09|website=Science Writers and Communicators of Canada}} In 2019, Falk was the winner of the Sandford Fleming Medal for Excellence in Science Communication, awarded by the Royal Canadian Institute for Science.{{cite web |url=https://www.rciscience.ca/fleming-medal |title=The Sandford Fleming Medal and Citation |website=Royal Canadian Institute for Science |language=en-US |access-date=2024-01-09 }}
With Amanda Gefter, Falk hosts the podcast BookLab, which looks at "the latest in popular science writing."{{Cite web |title=BookLab |url=https://www.booklabpodcast.com/ |access-date=2024-01-09 |website=BookLab}}
The asteroid (20039) Danfalk is named after him.[https://rasc.ca/asteroid/20039 Royal Astronomical Society of Canada "Asteroid (20039) Danfalk"]
Bibliography
=Books=
- {{cite book | last=Falk | first=Dan | title=Universe on a T-Shirt: The Quest for the Theory of Everything | publisher=Arcade Pub | publication-place=New York | date=2004 | isbn=978-1-61145-460-4 | oclc=798928945}}
- {{cite book |last=Falk |first=Dan |author-mask=1 |title=In Search of Time: Journeys Along a Curious Dimension |location=Toronto |publisher=McClelland & Stewart/St. Martin's Press |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-7710-4757-2 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/insearchoftimejo0000falk }}
- {{cite book | last=Falk | first=Dan |author-mask=1 | title=The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright's Universe |publisher=Macmillan| publication-place=New York | date=2014 | isbn=978-1-250-00877-0 | oclc=846545902}}
=Articles=
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- {{cite journal |last=Falk |first=Dan |date=January 2013 |title=Time warped |department=Phenomenon |journal=Smithsonian |volume=43 |issue=9 |pages=16 }}
- {{Cite magazine |date=2015-06-17 |last=Falk |author-mask=1 |first=Dan |title=Getting Smarter |url=https://magazine.utoronto.ca/research-ideas/technology/getting-smarter-computer-science-professor-geoffrey-hinton-is-helping-to-build-a-new-generation-of-intelligent-machines/ |access-date=2024-01-09 |website=University of Toronto Magazine |language=en-US}}
- {{Cite magazine |last=Falk |first=Dan |author-mask=1 |date=2022-01-05 |title=Readers Love Curious George. I Fell in Love with the Author's Astronomy Books |url=https://nautil.us/readers-love-curious-george-i-fell-in-love-with-the-authors-astronomy-books-238404/ |access-date=2024-01-09 |website=Nautilus |language=en-US}} (About H. A. Rey's The Stars: A New Way to See Them.)
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