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About 18 months ago I went to Chartres for the filming of a documentary about the Gothic cathedrals for Nova. The documentary is now fini...

Here’s the full-cream version of my Lab Report for Prospect in October. The IPCC is in a bind. There are good arguments for reforming...

My review of Hawking’s new book has now been published, although you’re unlikely to stumble across it unless you live in Abu Dhabi. Sinc...

I have a comment on the Prospect blog about the way the media has been hyperventilating (see here and here (Graham Farmelo being char...

Here’s the pre-edited version of my latest Muse for Nature News. ********** Does money make you happy? It depends what you mean by hap...

Bit of overmatter from my Prospect Lab Report this month, as the top story below blew up shortly before it went to press, so the last tw...

In his review of my trio of books Nature’s Patterns in the TLS , Martin Kemp makes a start on a question that I leave more or less unto...

I’m excited. Really. I have just discovered that my friend Mark Miodownik is going to deliver the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures ...

OK, my article on agent-based modelling of the economy is now out in the Economist – you might be able to get it here , but if firewalls...

This is the first of the pieces I've written on the back of a workshop that I attended at the end of June on agent-based modelling of...

I’ve just been directed towards P. Z. Myer’s Pharyngula blog in which, during the course of a dissection of Fodor and Piattelli-Palmarini...

I have a review of Sam Kean’s book T he Disappearing Spoon in the latest issue of Nature . I am posting the pre-edited version here most...

Here’s my latest Muse article for Nature News. I hope it does not sound in any way critical of the peg paper (reference 3), which is a v...

How do you make and use a Grignard reagent? This isn’t a question that has generally kept me awake at night. But last night it gave me ni...

I have a Muse piece on Nature News about a forthcoming paper in Nature on cooperation and punishment in game theory, by Karl Sigmund a...