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Brake was born at Mountain Ash, Wales, United Kingdom.
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This is the compelling story of the two biggest events in the evolution of ideas: the revolutions of Galileo and Darwin. Mark Brake captures the adventure and excitement of these two scientists in this is a timely examination of the ways in which faith and science clash, and how the battle for 'truth' is a perennial one.
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Since its emergence in the seventeenth century, science fiction has been a sustained, coherent and subversive check on the promises and pitfalls of science. In their turn, invention and discovery have forced fiction writers to confront the nature and limits of reality. Different Engines traces the way in which we've imagined the future.
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One day, astrobiologists could make the most fantastic discovery of all time: the detection of complex extraterrestrial life. As space agencies continue to search for life in our Universe, fundamental questions are raised: are we awake to the revolutionary effects on human science, society and culture that alien contact will bring? And how is it possible to imagine the unknown? In this book, Mark Brake tells the compelling story of how the portrayal of extraterrestrial life has developed over the last two and a half thousand years. Taking examples from the history of science, philosophy, film and fiction, he showcases how scholars, scientists, film-makers and writers have devoted their energies to imagining life beyond this Earth. From Newton to Kubrick, and Lucian to H. G. Wells, this is a fascinating account for anyone interested in the extraterrestrial life debate, from general readers to amateur astronomers and undergraduate students studying astrobiology.
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Brake was born at Mountain Ash, Wales, United Kingdom.
Brake was born at Mountain Ash, Wales, United Kingdom. He was awarded a Bachelor of Science by the Polytechnic of Wales and a Master of Science by University College Cardiff in 1988.
In 1999, Brake established what he described as "the world"s first science fiction degree", and in 2000, as Head of Earth and Space Sciences at The University of Glamorgan, was involved with an initiative to introduce school children to the study of astrophysics. The following year, Russian cosmonauts Commander Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov and Doctor Alexandre Martynov toured Britain in a series of lectures organised by Brake"s department. In 2005, Brake helped establish, and became head of, a degree in Astrobiology, described by a fellow academic as the United Kingdom"s first full degree in the subject.
Between 2003 and 2008, Brake was responsible for leading public engagement initiatives in science, which attracted around £5 million of funding.
The RoCCoTO project, launched in 2001, was a community-based science course for the public, featuring ideas about science and their cultural context in an instance of "Third Culture" studies. The RoCCoTO project received a Public Engagement Award from the Astrobiology Society of Britain in 2008.
Alien Worlds, an award-winning multimedia website associated with the RoCCoTO project was launched in July 2009. The website is an animated guide to phenomena such as eclipses of the Sun and Moon, and demonstrates Earth’s place in a cosmic perspective through advanced, animated visuals.
More recently, Brake has co-written and co-hosted a series of live tours with educational rapper Jon Chase, appearing at the 2012 Hay Festival with a show entitled The Science of Doctor Who, and the 2014 festival with The Science of Star Wars.
In 2006, Brake submitted a grant application to the Research Councils" Procurement Organisation in which he falsely claimed to have a Doctor of Philosophy from Cardiff University. The University of Glamorgan described this as "an isolated incident." Brake continued to work at the University of Glamorgan as a professor of science communication until 2010. Brake has argued that Charles Darwin"s theory of evolution, as expressed in his 1859 Origin of Species, was influenced by the work of Alfred Russel Wallace.
This view has been contested.
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