George Johnson (born January 20, 1952, in Fayetteville, Arkansas) is a science writer and author working from Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Colbert Report Appearance

On Thursday, May 7, 2008, Johnson appeared on the Stephen Colbert show to promote his new book, entitled "The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments". During his appearance, Johnson convinced Colbert to touch the spark produced by one of the electricity experiments. Colbert shocked his hand yelling obscenities that were bleeped out but appeared to be fine after the incident.

Bloggingheads.tv

Currently, Johnson is one of the co-hosts (with science writer John Horgan) of "Science Saturday", a weekly discussion related to science topics on the website Bloggingheads.tv. Many prominent scientists, philosophers, and bloggers have been interviewed on Bloggingheads.tv. When Horgan and Johnson converse, they generally discuss a wide variety of current science related topics.

Works

• The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments. Knopf, 2008.
• Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe. James Atlas Books/Norton, 2005.
• A Shortcut Through Time: The Path to the Quantum Computer. Knopf, 2003.
• Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in 20th-Century Physics. Knopf, 1999. Vintage paperback, 2000.
• Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order. Knopf, 1995. Vintage paperback, 1996.
• In the Palaces of Memory: How We Build the Worlds Inside Our Heads. Knopf, 1991. Vintage paperback, 1992.
• Machinery of the Mind: Inside the New Science of Artificial Intelligence. Times Books, 1986. Tempus / Microsoft paperback, 1987.
• Architects of Fear: Conspiracy Theories and Paranoia in American Politics. Tarcher/Houghton Mifflin, 1984.

References

1. Articles by George Johnson
2. George Johnson | The Colbert Report | Comedy Central

External links

• George Johnson's home page
• Interviews/Discussions on Bloggingheads.tv