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Highfield
Roger Highfield: 80 per cent executive at the Science Museum Group / 20 per cent author, journalist and broadcaster.
Views expressed here are 100 per cent his own.
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Here are a few of my latest articles. There are more in my archive.
27
Sep
A Nobel for the Future
The Nobels reward what's already been done. Britain should create a prize of similar stature for what hasn't
24
Sep
“It practically broke me”: on unlocking Stephen Hawking’s life
A father's coded diaries, black holes, a boy who died in the next hospital bed and more from Graham Farmelo’s monumental biography
23
Sep
A Minute With…Graham Farmelo, Stephen Hawking’s official biographer
To mark the publication of Hawking in the UK tomorrow, we had a quick chat
20
Sep
In this age of AI slop, here's what gives me hope
This week's Young Science Writer Award offered a glimpse of something we need more than ever: people who care whether something is actually true
18
Sep
Why do we assume digital machines can reproduce a mind?
Let's talk about digital computers and analogue intelligence
14
Sep
Why Smart people make stupid mistakes
The distinguished neuroscientist Adrian Owen has a new book, Think Before You Think. He discusses why intelligence is not enough, the impact of AI and how we can all think better.
09
Sep
Pressure Test: What D-Day Tells Us About AI Weather Forecasts
A new film about the momentous D-Day forecast turns out to be an unexpectedly good guide to whether we should trust AI with the weather
08
Sep
On the origins of tom stoppard's arcadia
In 1992, I introduced Stoppard to the professor who put chaos into biology. A year later I reviewed the play that resulted. As Arcadia is about to leave the West End, here's what happened.
17
Aug
Defining the Project: Missing the Spark
Review of Public Engagement with Science, by Angela Potochnik and Melissa Jacquart