So, a super geeky podcast just went up about the possible reversal of the Earth’s magnetic field, created by the awesome Rose Eveleth of FastForwardPod. She interviewed me and a bunch of scientists. It’s incredibly fun and beautifully researched. Have a listen here: https://www.flashforwardpod.com/2019/03/12/earth-the-polar-shift/
I recently sat down with Nam Kiwanuka of TVO’s The Agenda to chat about my book The Spinning Magnet. It was fun! She makes it look so easy to talk about physics and magnetism!
Malignant Metaphor: Confronting Cancer Myths: A Memoir The reaction to this book since it came out in the fall of 2015 has surprised me. I’ve had comments from people who have cancer as well as from those whose loved ones have died. They say they gave a big sigh of relief as they read it. …
The Theatre Centre’s crack team of artists — Franco Boni, Aislinn Rose and Melissa Joakim — and I are headed to Australia to put Sea Sick on the stages of the Antipodes. And not just anywhere in Australia, but Darwin, the city of the northern coast, named after the gentleman naturalist who travelled around the …
HowlRound is an influential website devoted to fostering conversations about theatre. It calls itself a commons. It’s feisty and smart and it pushes a whole bunch of boundaries. Yippee. So when Chantal Bilodeau, who wrote the extraordinary play Sila — it’s won several major awards, including the Woodward International Playwriting Prize, 2014 — asked me to …
Alanna Mitchell 