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For Francophones, I have a piece in the February issue of La Recherche on spacetime cloaking, part of a special feature on invisibility. F...

Well, I'm here and just thought it possible that someone in NYC might see this before tomorrow (25 Feb) is up. I'm taking part in th...

I wrote a leader for this week’s Nature on the forthcoming talks for an international Arms Trade Treaty. Here’s the original version. ___...

With the shrill cries of new atheists ringing in my ears (you would not believe some of that stuff, but I won’t go there), I read John Gray...

This piece in the Guardian has caused a little storm, and I’m not so naive as to be totally surprised by that. There’s much I could say ab...

I have a review of a book about John Dee in the latest issue of Nature . Here's how it started. ______________________________________...

Here’s my latest Muse for Nature News. But while I’m in that neck of the woods, I very much enjoyed the piece on Dickens in the latest iss...

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 . _______________________________________...