Interview by Simone Corletto
Dr Karl Kruszelnicki is one of
Australia's most popular and trusted
science communicators, who is also
known for his very colourful fashion
sense. His latest book is
Short Back and Science.
Have you always had a distinctive approach to
fashion?
Ah, yeah. I think it began in kindergarten, when I
was a little woggy kid in Australia, thinking, gee, it's
hot here in Australia. Then I thought, if I‟m wearing
shoes all the time, I sweat, an awful lot, and if you
wear sandals your feet slip around, and you get
sweaty that way. But if you wear socks and sandals,
you minimise the sweat and you get comfort. So in
kindergarten, I thought, what a wonderful, functional
thing. I was entirely alone on that. My idiosyncratic
fashion style continued and still continues today.
Is the way you look and dress important to you?
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How we present ourselves to the world is an
important part of our lives, it‟s who we are. In fact,
clothing is one of the very first technologies that we
had. At some stage along the evolutionary path we
had a choice of having either more or less hair on our