Australia’s favourite doctor-scientist-engineer talks recreational drugs, forgiveness and his extraordinary life
Kruszelnicki has written, by his count, no fewer than 48 books. The others have all been upbeat explorations of how stuff works, with punny titles including 50 Shades of Grey Matter and Game of Knowns: Science Is Coming . He knows scientific topics inside out, thanks to his time as a physicist and then a medical doctor.
His sunny, no-nonsense take on the machinations of science and the human body are never far from our conversation. At one point he tells me it sounds as though I have an upper respiratory infection – better than a lower respiratory infection, the latter of which is potentially deadly.“No, you are,” Kruszelnicki interrupts earnestly. “We’re all dying. Just not right now, today.”
Despite all the action crammed into the memoir, Kruszelnicki says there are other chapters of his life that didn’t make the cut. “I’m not particularly smart,” he says. “My IQ is in that two-thirds of the population is, between 85 and 115, but I am very well educated because once upon a time the Australian government thought that education was a worthwhile investment in the future.”The secret to his success, he says, is just “being able to explain things in plain English. And 16 years of free university education – I could not have done it without that.
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