Media
This page collects some media appearances, popular articles, and talks.
My literary agent is Antony Topping at Greene and Heaton. For publicity in the US and Canada please contact Brianna Scharfenburg at Simon and Schuster. For UK and all other territories please contact Kate McQuaid at Profile Books.
Media Commentary
I am always happy to speak to journalists about interesting discoveries. Here are some articles for which I provided comments.
- Science News, The einstein tile rocked mathematics. Meet its molecular cousin (5/3/25)
- Chemistry World (Anna Demming Davis), The Irregular Habits of Crystals (12/8/24)
- Financial Times (Anjana Ahuja), There is magic in the discovery of a new type of magnetism (21/2/24)
- Quanta Magazine (Ben Brubaker), Never-Repeating Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information (23/2/24)
The Magick of Matter
I have written a book aimed at introducing condensed matter physics to a broad audience. It is written as a manual for wizards. In the UK and overseas it is published as The Magick of Matter: Crystals, Chaos and the Wizardry of Physics (Profile Books, 2022), and in the US and Canada as The Magick of Physics: Uncovering the Fantastical Phenomena in Everyday Life (Simon and Schuster, 2023). It is being translated into Chinese, Polish, Taiwanese, Vietnamese, and Russian.
- Fritjof Capra, author of The Tao of Physics, made a fantastic video reviewing the book (free account required).
- Nature included the book in its five best science picks.
- I did a Reddit AMA.
- Here is a write-up in the Harvard Crimson of a discussion between myself and Prof. Norm Yao at the Harvard Science Center.
TV Appearances
- KATU-TV Afternoon Live (Portland, OR) (21/3/23)
Radio Appearances and Podcasts
- Edge of Reason, The Atlantic Re:Think (19/11/24)
- Curious Cases, BBC Radio 4 (19/10/24)
- Into the Impossible (29/5/23)
- New Books Network (2/5/23)
- The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry, BBC Radio 4 (17/1/23)
- How To Academy podcast (10/1/23)
- Start the Week, BBC Radio 4 (26/12/22)
- Times Radio interview (19/11/22)
Newspaper Interviews
- The Daily Star (4/12/22)
- The Sunday Post (23/11/22)
- The Observer (5/11/22)
Talks
See the Talks tab for a full list.
- The Magic of Physics, The Royal Institution (1/11/22)
- The Physics of Magnetic Monopoles, The Royal Institution (17/2/20)
Articles
See the Publications tab for a full list. Here are some articles written for a broad audience (more or less):
- F. Flicker, Why we must inspire people with the magic of condensed matter physics, New Scientist (26/4/23) [paywall]
- Felix Flicker, Understanding the call of the monopole, Science 378, 1177 (2022)
- F. Flicker, How The Mound Got Its Quack, New College Notes 10, 10 (2018)
- F. Flicker, The Weirdness of Time Zones, Physics World vol. 28 no. 6 (June 2015)
- F. Flicker, Quantum Kung Fu, Physics World vol. 27 no. 7 (July 2014)