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Is there such a thing as a 'safe technology'? [This is the pre-edited text of my latest muse for Nature , which relates to a paper ...

Hooke: what came next? I went to a nice talk by Lisa Jardine at the (peripatetic) Royal Institution last week, on the newly discovered notes...

Economists as storytellers Economist blogger Dave Iverson has written to me about my “tease” (his words, nice choice) in the Financial Times...

Was life inevitable? Here’s the unexpurgated version of my latest story for news@nature. There’s a lot of really interesting back story her...

No offence? Well well, I hadn’t anticipated that I was lighting a fuse with my FT article on economics. There has been more follow-up in th...

When you can't do it all with mirrors [This is the unedited text of my recent article for muse@nature.com.] A new proposal and costing ...

More on the dismal science I have drawn some inevitable flak for my criticisms of economic theory in the Financial Times . That’s no more t...

In defence of consensus If I were to hope for psychological subtlety from soap operas, or historical accuracy from Dan Brown, I’d have only ...

Decoding Da Vinci, decoded I’m hoping that anyone who feels moved to challenge my dismissal of Fibonacci sequences and the Golden Mean in na...

Paint it black I don’t generally tend to post my article for Nature ’s nanozone here, as they are a bit too techie. But this was just such ...

A sign of the times? The ETC Group, erstwhile campaigners against nanotechnology, have launched a competition for the design of a ‘nano-ha...

When it’s time to speak out [The following is the unedited form of my latest article on muse@nature.com. The newsblog on this story is wort...

Physics gets dirty [This is my Materials Witness column for the November issue of Nature Materials .] My copy of The New Physics , published...

One small step: NASA’s first date with China Here’s my latest latest article for muse@nature.com, pondering on the implications of the vis...

Latest Lab Report Here is my Lab Report column for the October issue of Prospect . And while I’m about it, I’d like to mention the excellent...

Unbelievable fiction In telling us “how to read a novel”, John Sutherland in the Guardian Review (2 September 2006) shows an admirable will...

Tyred out Here’s my Materials Witness column for the September issue of Nature Materials. It springs from a recent broadcast in which I par...