Here’s my latest column for Nature Materials. _______________________________________________________________________ T
Silence of the geronotologists
I was perhaps a bit cryptic in tweeting about my New Statesman piece on “the immortality business” (which I’m afraid I
Understanding the understanding of science
That the computer scientist Charles Simonyi has endowed a professorial chair at Oxford for the Public Understanding of
Dawkins and the Spotted Dick mystery
I have agreed, with some trepidation, to review volume 2 of Richard Dawkins’ autobiography, this one called Brief Candl
Beckett's epic fail (again)
One of my esteemed colleagues recently finished a nice piece on careers in science by quoting Samuel Beckett: “Ever tri
Does anyone have any questions?
That I can be fairly relied upon to put my foot in it was confirmed after a talk I gave at the Royal Society last week.
Perkin's purple: a journey around London
I have just presented one of BBC Radio 4’s Science Stories, a new series looking at episodes in the history of science.
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