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“Informed public opinion is infectious, even to governments.” (p. 149) Thursday, 30 July 1964 saw publication of two paperback “Penguin Spec...

LXXI The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all they ...

It seems like only a week since my last book was out. But today sees publication of Doctor Who - The Time-Travelling Almanac , billed as the...

Prompted by Richard Flanagan's Question 7 , I sought out this "science-fiction" anthology by the Hungarian physicist Leo Szila...

“The museum is a powerful and extraordinarily malleable cultural sorting house. [Museums] are places for demonstrating that the West is best...

I've really enjoyed this new six-part series on Curiosity Steam , with my hero James Burke returning to the subject of the unexpected hi...

This afternoon, I had a long chat with Nathan Price on his Countdown to the Moon project , discussing Artemis, the TV coverage of Apollo and...

I've had the most amazing few days in Geneva as a guest of Ideas Square at CERN . It's the first time I've been out of the UK in...

It me Last week, I was on an online panel organised by IPAC and and the Keck Institute for Space Studies, discussing the ways that science-f...

This book accompanying Radio 4's science panel show The Infinite Monkey Cage is largely a collection of debates addressed on that pro...

Subtitled "The Octopus and the evolution of intelligent life," this is an absorbing mix of marine biology and philosophy, delvi...

Subtitled "A comedians' take on what makes us human", this is an intelligent ramble through the psychology of stand-up, and...

This beautifully packaged anthology summarises 11 Christmas lectures from the Royal Institution covering aspects of natural history. The ...

My essay "Man on the Moon", about the psychology involved in landing the first people on the lunar surface 50 years ago this mo...