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I’ve a short review online with Prospect of The Future of the Brain (Princeton University Press), edited by Gary Marcus & Jeremy Free...

Several people have asked me what I think about the “restoration” of Chartres Cathedral, in the light of the recent piece by Martin Fille...

Here’s my Material Witness column from the November issue of Nature Materials ( 13 , 1003; 2014). ______________________________________...

“Horizontal gene transfer is more common than thought”: that's the message of a nice article in Aeon. I first came across it via a twee...

At some point this is all going to become a more coherently thought-out piece, but right now I just want to show you some of the Chemical ...

Here is my latest Music Instinct column for Sapere magazine. I collected some wonderful examples of absurdly complicated scores while wor...

I had meant to put up this piece – my October Crucible column for Chemistry World – some time back, so as to have the opportunity to show...

I figured that, after the tribulations of touching on the sensitive subject of genes and behaviour, it might be some light relief to turn to...

This piece for my Music Instinct column in Sapere magazine should be out and about in Italian any time now. I’ve talked about this deal b...

I hadn’t anticipated that my article for Prospect on the “language of genes” would spark a discussion so focused on the question of the i...

Well, it’s clear that Dominic Cummings is not one to use one tweet when six will do. But his gist is clear: he does not like my article on ...

This is an extended version of my piece in the December issue of Prospect . ____________________________________________________________...