Dan Falk

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:

  • The Universe on a T-Shirt: The Quest for the Theory of Everything
  • In Search of Time: Journeys Along a Curious Dimension.
  • The Science of Shakespeare.

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 2019, Falk was the winner of the Sandford Fleming Medal for Excellence in Science Communication, awarded by the Royal Canadian Institute for Science.[1]

Bibliography
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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.
gollark: Oh, there are *at least four*...
gollark: I want to be able to also make it handle rust.
gollark: I just need to figure out how to sandbox it properly.
gollark: Several, actually.
gollark: Turns out I just needed to toggle an option and stuff.

References
  1. "2019 Fleming Medal for Excellence in Science Communication". Royal Canadian Institute for Science. Retrieved 2019-11-14.


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