homunculus

Tanguy Chouard at Nature has pointed out to me Google’s tribute to the snowflake today: This is a beautiful example of the kind of bogus f...

I’ve just published a feature article in New Scientist on “reactions they said could never happen” (at least, that was my brief). A fair b...

Belatedly, here’s my final column for the Saturday Guardian . It’s final because, in a reshuffle to ‘consolidate’ the paper (i.e. save spac...

I was asked by the Guardian to write an online story about the new ‘youth cream’ from L’Oreal. I think they were anticipating a debunking ...

Some weeks back I mentioned in passing in my Guardian column the far-fetched claim that Einstein’s first wife Mileva Maric was partly or ev...

Here, then, is my column from last Saturday’s Guardian . While writing this, I discovered that Google Scholar has an add-on that will tot...

Before I post my last Guardian column, here’s one that got away: I’d planned to write about a paper in PNAS (not yet online) on blind test...

Belatedly, here is last Saturday’s Critical Scientist column for the Guardian . __________________________________________________________...

Here is the original draft of the end-of-year essay I published in the last 2011 issue of Nature . _______________________________________...

Here is the pre-edited version of my In Retrospect piece for Nature celebrating the 400th anniversary of Kepler’s seminal little treatise...

Rather a lot of posts all at once, I fear. Here is the first, which I meant to put up earlier – last Saturday’s column in the Guardian . _...

This week I had the pleasure of taking part in one of Robin Ince’s Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People at the Bloomsbury Theatre in...

Here’s the original text of my latest news story for Nature . ___________________________________________ A new statistical method discov...

Here’s the pre-edited version of my latest news story for Nature . There’s somewhat more to it than can all be fitted in here, or indeed th...