Our first contribution to EMBO Reports is now available online. Is science an example of a functioning anarchy?

You can read it HERE.

Are molecular biologists under-equipped to defend evolution? Continue reading →

A tribute to a scientist who was both of his time, and ahead of his time. Continue reading →

A bittersweet message to my beloved. Continue reading →

Big science doesn’t have a monopoly on the big questions. Continue reading →

An appreciative look at some great minds, and the moustaches that went (just) before them.

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Life seems to be getting faster and faster in the modern age – we no longer kill time, we try to save it. Continue reading →

There’s a passage in “Lark Rise to Candleford”, Flora Thompson’s eloquent eulogy to pre-industrial Britain, where she recounts staying near Northampton with an aunt. Her aunt’s husband is a shoemaker, one of the many independent artisans of the time plying his trade in laces and leather. Continue reading →

Science and the arts are often portrayed as polar opposites, but the truth is that they’re far closer than many of their practitioners even realise. Continue reading →

“When I am in the company of scientists,” observed the poet W. H. Auden, “I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room of dukes.” Continue reading →