Popular Publications

“Gene machines”, Prospect, July 2013. Available here.

“Into the blue”, New Scientist, 29 March 1997, p.28.

“The making of Cézanne’s palette”, Helix 2 (2001), p.34.

“Living by numbers”, Cosmos, issue 7 (2005) p.32.

“Notes on the brain”, Financial Times 4 June 2010. Link here.

The Critical Scientist, Guardian column, December 2011-January 2012. Available here.

Scientific controversies: three articles in La Recherche, August 2013. In French: but see here.

“Take it to the limit”, New Scientist, 2 August 1997, p.32.

“Smart stuff”, booklet to accompany the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 2002. Available from the RI: www.rigb.org

“A new kind of alchemy”, New Scientist, 16 April 2005, p.30.