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[I wrote a recent Muse for Nature News on an interesting study of the emotional qualities of major and minor keys. Here it is (pre-edited)...

Most of my Crucible columns for Chemistry World are too techie to be suitable here. But here’s one that isn’t. The sites I mention are wel...

There’s a fun letter in the latest issue of Nature from Thomas Koop at the University of Bielefeld pointing out how often snowflakes in ...

 I was interviewed recently by a chap from Die Welt for an article (in German) about the restoration of Chartres Cathedral. This is, for ...

[I have a piece in Nature on an art exhibition in the US by Julian Voss-Andreae , who has been working for some time now on representati...

Blackwell’s have, in their wisdom, apparently selected Critical Mass as one of their top 100 ‘paperbacks of the decade’ (don’t ask me why t...

I have a review of Christopher Booker’s book The Real Global Warming Disaster in the Observer today. Here it is below in its original for...

There’s an interesting article in Science ( 326 , 784-787) about what one might call the natural history of religion, reviewing current th...

This post is strictly for ultra-nerds of Gothic architecture. I recently got this photo of the ‘transitional flying buttress’ between the n...

I’ve just heard a lovely programme on BBC Radio 4 about the late, great Ken Campbell. Catch it while you can. I saw Ken perform several tim...

My piece on the cognition of atonal music has appeared in Prospect . I’m happy to say that it’s part of the site’s free content, but here i...