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Who says the Internet broadens your horizons? [Here’s the long version of my latest, understandable shortened Muse for Nature News.] A new ...

Is music just for babies? I’m grateful to a friend for pointing me towards a recent preposterous article on music by Terry Kealey in the Ti...

Were there architectural drawings for Chartres? Michael Lewis has given Universe of Stone a nice review in the Wall Street Journal . The r...

Behind the mask of the LHC [Here is my latest Muse for Nature News, which, bless them, they ran at its extravagant length and complexity.] ...

Birds that boogie [I reckon this one speaks for itself. It is on Nature News . I just hope Snowball can handle the fame.] YouTube videos of ...

Fly me to the moon? Last Monday I took part in a debate at the Royal Institution on human spaceflight: is it humanity’s boldest endeavour o...

A sound theory? [Here, because it will soon vanish behind a subscriber wall, is my latest Muse .for Nature News.] A new theory suggests a na...

Beauty and function Brian Appleyard has a nice blog about my book Universe of Stone . He says “Ball, in preferring earlier, starker Gothic ...

You’re not a molecule, but sometimes you’re a statistic The editorial in the latest issue of Nature , written by me, could in its edited fo...

Yes, I do read my reviews ‘When the laws of physics defy the science of storytelling’ says the headline. Whoops, I’m in for it. But not comp...

Fuelling the sceptics? [Here’s the long version of my Lab Report column in the June issue of Prospect .] Has the Intergovernmental Panel on...

Why we should love logarithms [More Musement from Nature News.] The tendency of 'uneducated' people to compress the number scale fo...

Making Hay It’s a rotten cliché of a title, but you can’t avoid the irony when the scene was pretty much like that above – I don’t know if t...