Popular Publications

“Curse of cursive handwriting”, Prospect, March 2013. Available here.

“Cosmic beakers”, New Scientist, 21 September 1996, p.46.

“Gassing with the gods”, New Scientist 1 September 2001, p.40.

“What is life? Can we make it?” Prospect, August 2004

“For sustainable architecture, think bug”, New Scientist 22 February 2010. Link here.

“What it means to be human” (book review of a book of that title by Joanna Bourke), The Observer 7 October 2011. Available here.

“Making good: the art of repair”, Aeon 29 May 2013. Available here.

“Diamond curls”, New Scientist, 1 February 1997, p.22.

“The birth of the blues”, The Times (supplement), 19 November 2001, p.10.

“Going with the flow” The Guardian, 9 September 2004, Life supplement. www.guardian.co.uk