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Letter to Prospect: a response My column for the June issue of Prospect (available in the archives here) can be seen as somewhat sceptical ...

Check out those Victorian shades, dude For people interested in the cultural histories of materials, there is a lovely paper by Bill Brock ...

Spider-Man’s buddies and other elites [This is the pre-edited version of my latest article for muse@nature.com.] Marvel Universe reflects so...

“Here lies one whose name was writ in water…” [It’s been pointed out to me that my commentary on the Homeopathy special issue on the memory...

After the flood [ This is the pre-edited version of my Lab Report column for the September issue of Prospect. ] Can there be a pub in the co...

The Hydra lives: more on homeopathy There’s no rest for the wicked, it seems. My wickedness was to voice criticisms, here and on the Nature ...

Chemistry in pictures Joachim Schummer and Tami Spector have just published in Hyle a paper based on their presentation at the 2004 meetin...

A wardrobe for Mars [This is my Material Witness column for the September issue of Nature Materials .] No one has a date booked for a party ...

A bad memory I have just read all the papers on ‘the memory of water’ published in a special issue of the journal Homeopathy , which will be...

Pay your money and take your chances [This is the pre-edited version of my latest muse article for news@nature.com.] Fatalities are an inevi...

Cold is hot Three cheers for BBC4’s Absolute Zero , a two-part series on ‘cold’ that began last night. I thought this was one of the best sc...

Liquids bounce again [I can’t resist putting up this little item, written for news@nature, because it is a classic kitchen experiment you ca...

Chartres on film Late last year I nearly froze my tender parts off standing on the turret of a ruined Tudor mansion in Sussex taking about C...

It could only happen in the movies [This is the pre-edited version of my latest article for muse@nature.com] Real science can’t compete at t...

Designs for life [More matters arising from the Greenland conference: in this case, a paper that John Glass of the Venter Institute discusse...

What is life? A silly question [This will appear as a leader in next week's Nature , but not before having gone through an editorial gr...

The Ilulissat Statement [This is a statement drafted by the participants of the conference in Greenland that I attended two weeks ago. Its r...