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Here's a little snippet I wrote for Nature's news blog. The authors seem to take it as read that magnets can alter brain functioning...

This is more or less how my review of Ian McEwan’s new novel Solar in Prospect started out (the final paras got a little garbled in the...

Here’s my little round-up for the April issue of Prospect , before it is edited to probably a third of this size. I don’t want to sound c...

I have a feature in New Scientist on insect architecture and what we can learn from it, pegged to a very interesting conference that took...

[I have a Muse on Nature News about the perils and benefits of recommender systems. Here’s the pre-edited  version.] Automated recommende...

I have written a review for the Sunday Times of Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini’s new book What Darwin Got Wrong . There was a...

… or in which my past comes back to amuse me. In the course of a little research to prepare for my talk on The Music Instinct , I discover t...

There are some reviews of The Music Instinct in the Sunday Times , the Independent , the Guardian , the Economist and Metro . Most are nice...

Brian Worley, who runs the entertaining ‘lapsed Christian’ site (I hope that is not an impolite way to describe it) called exminister , has ...

The sound files (and podcasts) for my book The Music Instinct are now live . Hope they’re useful to anyone reading the book. And I discuss ...

[ I have a written a Muse for Nature News on a paper probing the origins of morality (and by extension, of religion). Here it is. This stuf...

If you catch this within a week (or so?) of posting, there’s a little trailer here for my new book The Music Instinct on BBC Radio 3’s Nig...

[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...