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Here’s the longer version of my latest news story for Nature . I love this stuff. I saw the experiments being done by Phil M when I visit...

The beginning of a play or book is so hard. I was reminded of this last night while watching the RSC’s new production in Stratford upon Avo...

Sorry folks: Prospect has asked that my latest piece in the February issue, a survey of the centenary year of general relativity, remains ...

Here's a longer version of my story on Nature News on the new poker-playing computer program. ______________________________________...

This is an extended version of a piece written for Research Fortnight . To celebrate its 350th anniversary, Phil. Trans. is also soon to pu...

This is a slightly extended version of my feature article in the latest issue of Chemistry World . _______________________________________...

How would you like to live on Heinrich Himmlerstraat? Maybe not? Don’t worry – to my knowledge no street named after the SS Reichsführer ...

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...