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Book Review: The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

And finally I have got around to reading Dawkins’ best-known and seminal work of popular science. Even now, nearly forty years after it’s initial publication (I read the 30th anniversary edition) it is...

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Book Review: Incoming! Or Why We Should Stop Worrying And Learn to Love the...

The quirky title drew me in, I admit and I expected something a bit light-hearted but informative and that’s what it is… mostly. This is one of the most comprehensive books I have ever read on the...

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Writing About What You Love

One of the best things about being a freelance writer, in fact the thing that really makes it worth leaping out of bed with glee on a cold, wet Monday morning – is that you get to mix passion with...

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Making History with the Pluto Fly By

Source: NASA  It’s not very often these days we feel that a planetary fly-by really makes history, but today is a little different. This is the first high-res image ever to be beamed back from the...

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Book Review: Paranormality by Richard Wiseman

There are many books on the paranormal, horoscopes, mediums, NDEs, OBEs, haunted houses and other such areas that make us think that there is something going on in the world that science cannot...

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Book Review: The Universe Inside You by Brian Clegg

Following on from my review of In-flight Science by the same author, I moved into this one with interest. Have you ever thought about what a remarkable machine the human body is? Why does a mirror...

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My Favourite Karl Popper Quotes

A rare instance of me doing Post A Day, but seeing this post today, and I immediately had a writer in mind. For those who don’t know, Karl Popper is one of the most famous philosophers of science. He...

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Book Review: The Language of the Genes by Steve Jones

Biologist Doctor Steve Jones is slightly less famous than Richard Dawkins. I know this because he pointed that fact out at Uncaged Monkeys, the national tour of The Infinite Monkey Cage that he is “the...

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Cheddar Man and the Language of Race/ism

Last week it was revealed that Cheddar Man – the best preserved of the earliest skeletons found in the British Isles whose remains lay in the caves at Cheddar, Somerset until exhumation in the 20th...

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Book Review: The Incredible Human Journey by Dr Alice Roberts

You can't help but like Dr Alice Roberts. Though best known as a co-presenter on the BBC series Coast, she has been involved in a number of other TV projects of which this was the most noteworthy. We...

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