The Outsiders Guide to Life

November 28, 2020 4:56 PM

“Well this is rather snazzy! Casually making into into the ‘Best books of 2020: Science’ in the Financial Times reading list,” said biochemist and neurodiversity advocate, Dr Camilla Pang who, at 28, is the youngest ever winner of the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Prize for Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us about Life, Love and Relationships, the book she needed and began writing as a child through the perspective of her autism and her love of science.
posted by Thella (6 comments total)

It irks me that for the U.S. market someone thought they had to rename Explaining Humans to An Outsider’s Guide to Humans; autistics and other neurodivergent folks aren't, you know, not human.
posted by bixfrankonis at 6:31 PM on November 28, 2020 [11 favorites]

Or that books have nothing to tell us about what the hell's going on around here.
posted by sneebler at 7:36 PM on November 28, 2020

On a similar note, y'all should treat yourselves to Humans, A Documentary by Kyle Eschen.
posted by ocschwar at 7:50 PM on November 28, 2020 [1 favorite]

Thanks for pointing this out. I put a library hold on it!
posted by seanmpuckett at 6:12 AM on November 29, 2020

And the first writer of colour to win the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Prize, joining the ranks of such luminaries as Bill Bryson and Stephen Hawking. :)

“Winning doesn’t feel real yet, but it does feel like an incredible honour, to be up there with people I admire. To have it recognised that I can write, and that people resonate with the book, makes me feel like I have that piece of connection that has always been missing. And that it’s OK to feel weird in other parts, because I know that this part will anchor me in feeling human for the rest of my life.”

posted by heatherlogan at 9:53 AM on November 29, 2020 [1 favorite]

looking forward to this, thanks for posting.
posted by theora55 at 10:19 AM on November 29, 2020