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I have a piece in the Guardian online about this paper from Richard Muller that is causing so much fuss, though it says nothing new and ha...

I’ve a mountain of stuff to put up here after a holiday. For starters, here’s the pre-edited version of an editorial for last week’s issue ...

I don’t read much popular science. That’s not a boast, as if to say that I’m above such things, but a guilty confession – I ought to read mo...

When I was asked to write a piece for the Guardian about the GSK scandal , my first thought was that it would be nice to know Richard Syke...

The Guardian seems to be keeping me busy at the moment. Here’s a piece published today about the GlaxoSmithKline scandal. It was apparently...

This story was in yesterday’s Guardian in slightly edited form . It was accompanied by a review of some of Iamus’s music by Tom Service, w...

I have a piece in the Guardian online on the Mpemba effect and the RSC’s £1000 prize for explaining it. The article is largely unchanged f...

It is a book? A booklet? A brochure? Search me, but my, er, tract on social complexity is now published by Springer. This 70-page item ...

Here’s my Crucible column for the June issue of Chemistry World . Incidentally, since the magazine chose to illustrate its regular contribu...

I've just put two new pdfs on my website : extended versions of a piece on Turing patterns published in the June issue of Chemistry Worl...

An edited version of this piece has just gone up on the BBC Future site. ____________________________________________________ Some envi...

The Browser has run an interview in which I recommend five books connected to Curiosity . (I cheat – one is a multi-volume series.) And I j...

I have written a story for Physical Review Focus, of which the pre-edited version is below. There’s more on this topic in my book Shapes , ...

My latest news article for Nature is here – it was altered very little in the editing, so I shan’t include the original. Was this problem ...

I often used to get asked if the image on the cover of the UK version of Critical Mass , shown here, is real (it is). It was a great ch...

One of the sections of New Statesman I most enjoy is This England, which supplies little snippets of the poignantly weird, stupid and ridic...

Andrew Robinson gives me a kind review in this week’s New Scientist (not available free online, but Andrew has put it on his website here )....

So: reviews. I read somewhere recently that some writers still feel it the proper thing to do, if not to never read them, then at least not ...

This piece appeared in the 30 April issue of the New Statesman , a “ science special ”, for which I was asked to write about whether “scienc...