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Two years ago, Backlisted devoted an episode to  The Inheritors , the second novel by William Golding, author of  The Lord of the Flies . Ev...

A huge, confused ape wrestles with King Kong. Reader, that ape is me... The Cinema Limbo podcast re-evaluates old films, and host Jerem...

A couple of years ago, I praised a jaw-dropping exhibition of images of the Solar System which were on temporary display at the Natural H...

I've been reading BF Skinner's Beyond Freedom and Dignity  (1971) , which argues for a "technology of behaviour" or "...

A few years ago, I worked for William Potter on the esteemed journal SpongeBob SquarePants' Krusty Kards Collection and a Shrek stick...

I've reviewed Project Nim for the Lancet . It's slightly informed by a post here a while back about Baboon Metaphysics . Will res...

Another of my Film Focus reviews . (Something a bit different tomorrow, promise.) King Kong Reviewed 6 December 2005 [In brief] Ann Darrow (...

Have been busy this week with a damn load of work - which is something of a relief after a rather desperate January . Has meant some late ni...

Had my picture taken yesterday morning by George Bamford , as part of his “Young Guns” project. The wheeze is he'll snap 100 “young, inf...

Fascinated by this news story about the oldest words in English . It’s one avenue of research by Reading University’s evolutionary biology g...

Stephen Fry was on the telly on Friday night discussing Kakopos . For the uninitiated, these are silly green parrots what live on New Zeal...

This goes on a bit: it’s a book review but also the janglings of my brain in my sparer moments of man flu. Sorry. After the invasion of 1066...

Just back from a shopping trip to buy a linen suit. I used to have a linen suit, but it was one of the things that got pinched by burglars i...

The BBC news site it full of interesting stuff right this minute (or perhaps it's just greener than the grass of my own writing chores.....

For reasons of research on something I cannot yet speak of, I have been looking into physics. Specifically, I have been learning about orbit...

There is a theory I am quite drawn to that humans have factory settings. The idea is that Homo sapiens developed and evolved to fit particul...

Sir Arthur C Clarke, who died yesterday , is probably best remembered for getting his physics right. This is the bloke who, for a bit of a l...

So where were we? Oh yes, I was blogging from our hotel in the Sydney Rocks, while the Dr was exploring the roof-top hot-tub. I went up to j...

It was reading Prime Witness that finally prompted me to make an effort with the Ascent of Man . It’s the third of BBC 2’s decades-old, pre...