20th August 2008

• Stem cell technology may make blood donations thing of the past

19th August 2008

• West prefers eyes and mouth, East likes the nose
• A rounder face 'means men are more aggressive'
• Stem cell marker gives new clue to bowel cancer
• Birds not following changing climate fast enough
• Cancer patients have pioneering 'cutting by colour' surgery

18th August 2008

• Magpies join elite club of animals that recognise themselves in the mirror
• Why short women with long legs are the most attractive
• Shipping pollution 'may cause 60,000 deaths a year'
• We are natural born mathematicians

15th August 2008

• Star Trek warp drive is a possibility, say scientists
• A brief history of warp drives

mad boffin

what makes my blood boil...

Holistic

Yes, the real world is messy and non linear. And that complexity is not always captured by reductionist thinking. But when someone uses the h word, what they usually mean is that they don’t know what they are talking about, or that a problem is bloody complicated.

Links

My Christmas Lecture 2007

• Can Reindeer Fly?

Celebrity Video Interviews

• Sir David Attenborough, and others
• Sir Richard Branson
• Larry Brilliant
• David Cameron
• Richard Dawkins
• Baroness Greenfield
• Raj Persaud
• Chris Stringer

Special Projects

• My kitchen experiments
• Cheltenham Science Festival
• FameLab A kind of 'Pop Idol' of science, even 'Boff Idol'!
• Science Writer The science writer competition for young people, which I set up in 1987
• Visions of Science and Technology. A science photography competition

My Favourites

• A9
• Atomic Archive
• Brainpop
• Clusty
• Cyber Newseum
• DNA Interactive
• Edge
• EurekAlert
• Human Clock
• Leading Edge
• NASA
• NASA TV
• Nature
• Null Hypothesis
• NY Times
• Pandora
• Physics Web
• Simon Singh
• Tag Browser
• The Telegraph
• VRMag
• Wolfram Tones

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