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Richard Preston (b. August 5, 1954) is a New Yorker writer and bestselling author of books about alarming infectious disease epidemics and bioterrorism. Whether journalistic or fictional, his writings are based on thorough background research and extensive interviews. He is also the brother of best-selling author, Douglas Preston.
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If you missed the MCM Expo on the 24th and 25th of October, shame on you. The movie, comic and media exposition 5000 rocked the Excel centre in London’s Docklands. Again. This year’s turnout was, well, normal ...
From RICHARD PRESTON,
T5M.com,
27 Oct 2009
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October sees the return of the London Games Festival. From the 21st to the end of the month, London will bulge with events aimed at educating and exploring the world’s most popular pastime. OK, the world’s second ...
From RICHARD PRESTON,
T5M.com,
14 Oct 2009
Science writer Richard Preston talks about some of the most enormous living beings on the planet, the giant trees of the US Pacific Northwest. Growing from a tiny seed, they support vast ecosystems -- and are still, largely, a mystery.
Jane Goodall ...
From RICHARD PRESTON,
TED,
2 Dec 2008
First up, he reminded us that candidates love to spring a surprise, remembering the night in 1992 when he cornered Bill Clinton for an hour and tried to prise the name of his vice-president from him.
Clinton gave a magisterial account of the strengths ...
From RICHARD PRESTON,
The Telegraph,
18 Jun 2008
Every couple of years or so we get a new, drop-everything drama series from the US, the best of which have been (in ascending order, I submit) The West Wing and The Sopranos.
Producers hope Mad Men will be as successful as The West Wing
Judging from ...
From RICHARD PRESTON,
The Telegraph,
2 Mar 2008
Full coverage of the US elections
The latest US presidential debate doesn’t seem to have added much to our sum of knowledge about Clinton and Obama but it proved they share at least one quality with some of the previous leaders of the free world – no ...
From RICHARD PRESTON,
The Telegraph,
27 Feb 2008
So now we know the source of Gordon Brown’s ‘over-arching narrative’ for young people. Writing on the front page of the Guardian, Jonathan Freedland, who ought to know, says that the Prime Minister’s love of TV talent shows such as The X Factor and ...
From RICHARD PRESTON,
The Telegraph,
13 Feb 2008
But is it all just clever talk, Mr Obama?
There’s plenty to enjoy in his South Carolina victory speech, too:
The choice in this election is not between regions or religions or genders. It’s not about rich versus poor; young versus old; and it is not ...
From RICHARD PRESTON,
The Telegraph,
28 Jan 2008
'weaselly'. Surely this is an incompetence and should be replaced by a real word such as 'weaselled'
Even though everyone knows the full story and has his or her own view about whether Hain is a lying, dishonest, oily criminal or simply an incompetemt ...
From RICHARD PRESTON,
The Telegraph,
16 Jan 2008
Just as newspapers were wrapping up their reviews of 2007, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair helpfully came up with a late entry for quotes of the year during his long and gentle grilling by Jim Naughtie on the Today programme this morning. ‘I’ ...
From RICHARD PRESTON,
The Telegraph,
21 Dec 2007
