An increasing number of academics engage non-specialists through popular books, podcasts, and social media. I find the linguist John McWhorter and the statistician David Spiegelhalter (former Winton Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk, University of Cambridge) the most entertaining. During the entertainment, I learn a lot.
The tables below contain only the most easily organized links for McWhorter and Spiegelhalter. Each appears in numerous videos on YouTube, too.
John McWhorter
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia UniversityThis is the title given for Dr. McWhorter here, but his name is absent from that department's list of faculty. Elsewhere he is listed as Associate Professor of Slavic Languages.
David Spiegelhalter, FRS, OBE
Chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of CambridgeProfessor, Statistical Laboratory, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge
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| Podcast(s) | Risky Talk He also appears frequently on BBC4's More or Less. | ||||||
| Non-Academic Articles | The Guardian Medium | ||||||
| Videos | BBC | ||||||
| Other | Google Scholar Wikipedia Goodreads |