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My article on cursive handwriting in Prospect seems to be creating some debate, which pleases me. I volunteered in my last comment there...

Here's a bigger and illustrated version of an article published in Aeon magazine. It is part of a larger project to be revealed soon. ...

Here’s a piece published in Prospect this month. I’m not holding my breath about whether it is going to make the slightest impact on the b...

Here’s another Nature News piece – there’s evidently a lot of language about (and more in the pipeline…). ______________________________...

Catching up after winter bugs… here is an article for Nature News from a week or so back. ______________________________________________...

Here’s an article on D’Arcy Thompson’s classic On Growth and Form , published in the “In Retrospect” slot of this week’s Nature . I am ...

Here’s my latest piece for BBC Future, pre-editing. More to follow shortly. __________________________________________________________...

The Hayward Gallery’s new exhibition Light Show opened in London last week, and it is as spectacular as I’d expected. Reviews have been...

I have just read in Richard Kieckhefer’s Magic in the Middle Ages several recipes for medieval aphrodisiacs. I think it is a great shame th...

And finally for now… a piece for BBC Future's "Will We Ever...?" column on the conundrums of quantum theory (more to come on t...

Next up, a kind of book review for Prospect . In my experience as a footballer playing on an outdoor pitch through the winter, the three-da...

Ah, quite a bit of stuff to post tonight. Here is the first: my latest Crucible column for Chemistry World . I have a fantasy of kitting ou...

This was a somewhat challenging topic I took on for my latest column for BBC Future. On an unrelated matter, my talk on Curiosity at the ...

This is my Crucible column for the January issue of Chemistry World : more on why scientists rarely make good historians. _______________...

Here’s the pre-edited version of a story for Nature News about a fun poll among specialists of what quantum theory means. It seems quite ...