Marcus Chown
@marcuschown.bsky.social
Writer. Books include A Crack in Everything, Breakthrough, The Ascent of Gravity, Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand, Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You & Solar System for iPad. See www.marcuschown.com
Anyone remember Eskimo? My dad worked for them. One of his many sales jobs. Those were the days when you could walk out of a job on a Friday and find a new job on Monday. museumofbrands.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Anyone remember Eskimo? My dad worked for them. One of his many sales jobs. Those were the days when you could walk out of a job on a Friday and find a new job on Monday. museumofbrands.com
Orville with his giant nappy pin: “How mooch do ya luff me?”
museumofbrands.com
museumofbrands.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Orville with his giant nappy pin: “How mooch do ya luff me?”
museumofbrands.com
museumofbrands.com
What are the chances that there would be a Bryant & May display at the venue for Brian May’s book launch? museumofbrands.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:14 PM
What are the chances that there would be a Bryant & May display at the venue for Brian May’s book launch? museumofbrands.com
On the way to Brian May’s book launch, I made a pilgrimage to this house. No blue plaque. But it was the childhood home of the woman who wrote the the most important astrophysics PhD of the 20th century and discovered what the Universe is made of: Cecilia Payne
November 14, 2025 at 11:34 AM
On the way to Brian May’s book launch, I made a pilgrimage to this house. No blue plaque. But it was the childhood home of the woman who wrote the the most important astrophysics PhD of the 20th century and discovered what the Universe is made of: Cecilia Payne
Lovely event for launch of Brian May’s stereoscopic book on galaxies. Particularly liked the Black Hole and Supernova cocktails! museumofbrands.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Lovely event for launch of Brian May’s stereoscopic book on galaxies. Particularly liked the Black Hole and Supernova cocktails! museumofbrands.com
Anyone remember Caramac? It was my fave. museumofbrands.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Anyone remember Caramac? It was my fave. museumofbrands.com
Variety packs! We used to only have them on holiday. Nobody wanted the boring cornflakes. museumofbrands.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Variety packs! We used to only have them on holiday. Nobody wanted the boring cornflakes. museumofbrands.com
Anyone remember Fray Bentos pies? It took ages to open them with a tin-opener.
museumofbrands.com
museumofbrands.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Anyone remember Fray Bentos pies? It took ages to open them with a tin-opener.
museumofbrands.com
museumofbrands.com
Anyone remember Ready Brek - “Central heating for kids”? They used to do chocolate flavour - and butter flavour!
museumofbrands.com
museumofbrands.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Anyone remember Ready Brek - “Central heating for kids”? They used to do chocolate flavour - and butter flavour!
museumofbrands.com
museumofbrands.com
“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”
- Samuel Johnson
- Samuel Johnson
November 13, 2025 at 9:34 AM
“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”
- Samuel Johnson
- Samuel Johnson
“It’s a smear” - Donald Trump
November 13, 2025 at 7:35 AM
“It’s a smear” - Donald Trump
Very happy that this Japanese artist’s exhibition in Florida was inspired by my book, “The Magic Furnace”! www.culturedmag.com/article/2025...
www.waterstones.com/book/9780099...
www.waterstones.com/book/9780099...
November 12, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Very happy that this Japanese artist’s exhibition in Florida was inspired by my book, “The Magic Furnace”! www.culturedmag.com/article/2025...
www.waterstones.com/book/9780099...
www.waterstones.com/book/9780099...
I interviewed anyone who was alive. Roy Kerr, the New Zealander who found the shape of the space-time around a spinning black hole, gets a chapter. He was one of my most interesting (& controversial) interviewees. He said to me: “My advantage over the others in the field was that I was not stupid”!
November 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I interviewed anyone who was alive. Roy Kerr, the New Zealander who found the shape of the space-time around a spinning black hole, gets a chapter. He was one of my most interesting (& controversial) interviewees. He said to me: “My advantage over the others in the field was that I was not stupid”!
It was an honour to be asked to give a talk on the 70th anniversary of the Guildford Astronomical Society. Guildford, I had never realised, was the home of Lewis Carroll, of Alice in Wonderland fame!
Here is my talk on how #blackholes came in from the cold… m.youtube.com/watch?v=H6wC...
#astronomy
Here is my talk on how #blackholes came in from the cold… m.youtube.com/watch?v=H6wC...
#astronomy
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
It was an honour to be asked to give a talk on the 70th anniversary of the Guildford Astronomical Society. Guildford, I had never realised, was the home of Lewis Carroll, of Alice in Wonderland fame!
Here is my talk on how #blackholes came in from the cold… m.youtube.com/watch?v=H6wC...
#astronomy
Here is my talk on how #blackholes came in from the cold… m.youtube.com/watch?v=H6wC...
#astronomy
Imagine being the richest person in history and all the good you could do.
Imagine being the the richest person in the world and instead deciding to spread hate and division.
Richest man in history?
Biggest knobhead in history.
That’s how the history books will remember him.
Imagine being the the richest person in the world and instead deciding to spread hate and division.
Richest man in history?
Biggest knobhead in history.
That’s how the history books will remember him.
November 10, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Imagine being the richest person in history and all the good you could do.
Imagine being the the richest person in the world and instead deciding to spread hate and division.
Richest man in history?
Biggest knobhead in history.
That’s how the history books will remember him.
Imagine being the the richest person in the world and instead deciding to spread hate and division.
Richest man in history?
Biggest knobhead in history.
That’s how the history books will remember him.
Can anyone believe this?! The headlines UK media are using to describe Labour - like the Sunday Times here - are headlines never used to describe the Tories, who gave us 14 years of the most corrupt, incompetent and malicious government in living memory.
November 9, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Can anyone believe this?! The headlines UK media are using to describe Labour - like the Sunday Times here - are headlines never used to describe the Tories, who gave us 14 years of the most corrupt, incompetent and malicious government in living memory.
My dad was 10 on D Day.
When I was 10 a man stepped on the Moon.
There could not be a greater contrast.
For that I am immensely grateful to those who fought against Fascism.
#LestWeForget #RemembranceDay2025
When I was 10 a man stepped on the Moon.
There could not be a greater contrast.
For that I am immensely grateful to those who fought against Fascism.
#LestWeForget #RemembranceDay2025
November 9, 2025 at 8:53 AM
My dad was 10 on D Day.
When I was 10 a man stepped on the Moon.
There could not be a greater contrast.
For that I am immensely grateful to those who fought against Fascism.
#LestWeForget #RemembranceDay2025
When I was 10 a man stepped on the Moon.
There could not be a greater contrast.
For that I am immensely grateful to those who fought against Fascism.
#LestWeForget #RemembranceDay2025
"You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race"
- George Bernard Shaw
#LestWeForget #Remembranceday2025
- George Bernard Shaw
#LestWeForget #Remembranceday2025
November 9, 2025 at 8:51 AM
"You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race"
- George Bernard Shaw
#LestWeForget #Remembranceday2025
- George Bernard Shaw
#LestWeForget #Remembranceday2025
Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race"
- Albert Einstein
#LestWeForget #RemembranceSunday #Remembrance #RemembranceDay
- Albert Einstein
#LestWeForget #RemembranceSunday #Remembrance #RemembranceDay
November 9, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race"
- Albert Einstein
#LestWeForget #RemembranceSunday #Remembrance #RemembranceDay
- Albert Einstein
#LestWeForget #RemembranceSunday #Remembrance #RemembranceDay
What is is about the insatiable desire of pathetic old men to sacrifice the lives of young men?
Putin is just the last in a long line.
My granddad, who survived 4 years in WWI, saw pretty much all the friends he'd started out with killed.
His anger at the waste never abated.
#Remembranceday2025
Putin is just the last in a long line.
My granddad, who survived 4 years in WWI, saw pretty much all the friends he'd started out with killed.
His anger at the waste never abated.
#Remembranceday2025
November 9, 2025 at 8:45 AM
What is is about the insatiable desire of pathetic old men to sacrifice the lives of young men?
Putin is just the last in a long line.
My granddad, who survived 4 years in WWI, saw pretty much all the friends he'd started out with killed.
His anger at the waste never abated.
#Remembranceday2025
Putin is just the last in a long line.
My granddad, who survived 4 years in WWI, saw pretty much all the friends he'd started out with killed.
His anger at the waste never abated.
#Remembranceday2025
My granddad, who survived the Somme and 4 years in the Trenches, used to say exacty this. He was in the British Expeditionary Force, sent to Belgium in August 1914. Hardly any of the friends he started the war with survived.
#RemembranceDay2025 #LestWeForget
#RemembranceDay2025 #LestWeForget
November 9, 2025 at 8:43 AM
My granddad, who survived the Somme and 4 years in the Trenches, used to say exacty this. He was in the British Expeditionary Force, sent to Belgium in August 1914. Hardly any of the friends he started the war with survived.
#RemembranceDay2025 #LestWeForget
#RemembranceDay2025 #LestWeForget
November 9, 2025 at 8:40 AM
A Crack in Everything: How black holes came in from the cold and took centre stage
November 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
A Crack in Everything: How black holes came in from the cold and took centre stage
Bloody brilliant title!
And doesn’t it just encapsulate the deeply damaging divide in society and in the world?
And doesn’t it just encapsulate the deeply damaging divide in society and in the world?
November 8, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Bloody brilliant title!
And doesn’t it just encapsulate the deeply damaging divide in society and in the world?
And doesn’t it just encapsulate the deeply damaging divide in society and in the world?
At St Paul’s School, Cecilia Payne was taught by Gustav Holst. He tried to persuade her to be a musician rather than a scientist. Fortunately, he failed!
November 8, 2025 at 10:59 AM
At St Paul’s School, Cecilia Payne was taught by Gustav Holst. He tried to persuade her to be a musician rather than a scientist. Fortunately, he failed!