I love Amy Winehouse. For the first time in years, probably since Jeff Buckley died, I’ve found a singer who can get into me in a way that science can’t […]

I often wonder what it is about cell culture that some people seem to enjoy. I just don’t get it. Maybe it’s okay to dabble now and again, as part […]

Having read Northern Lights, the first instalment of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, I am – or was – keenly looking forward to the forthcoming film adaptation, The Golden […]

I’m off to Ireland for a few days to attend the wedding of my good colleague, Dr. Marie O’Shea, in County Cork, and to team up with my old mate, […]

’In 1996, Pope John Paul II announced that the Vatican accepted evolution as a theory of science compatible with creation, but retained spiritual claim on the emergence of mind (or […]

There was a nice two-page advice piece for early-career postdocs in last weeks New Scientist (Tree-climbing for future fellows.). All very helpful and informative. To put its premise succinctly, all […]

Clever fella, that Stephen Fry. The UK’s favourite polymath lists as one of his guilty pleasures, the music of Led Zeppelin. And, glory be, in correctly pointing out the quality […]

Why did the designers of the lovely new IDS building in Southampton choose to incorporate security pod entrance doors, which keep breaking down, cocooning staff like a member of Spinal […]