I garden for a living, besides writing. My last blog referred to bamboo growing in a rock garden outside my back door. But my urban gardening mentor has informed me this plant is not bamboo.  It…

Possibly some of the more hotly contested fishing grounds in the world occur around the Falkland Islands, just off the Atlantic coast of South America. The islands themselves are a point of…

Arctic Tipping Points - #4: The Broken Bridges Of Nares This series is a follow-on to my 3-part series Arctic Ice 2010.  It began with part #1: Background And Recent History.  In Arctic…

Selective hearing- How many times have you heard that term? It might be totally false!  We are, as humans simply thinking in pictures. I know none of this has been in a text book before, the…

Selective hearing- How many times have you heard that term? It might be totally false!  We are, as humans simply thinking in pictures. I know none of this has been in a text book before, the…

In Writing As Superpower I outlined how writing is for the eye, at the expense of the hands, despite the fact that our brains may have evolved to comprehend speech. We still prefer to 'listen' with…

BARCELONA, Spain, April 19, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The Astellas European Foundation is delighted to announce the winner of the 2010 Urology Prize Fund: Professor Jenny Southgate and Dr Simon Baker…

Arctic Tipping Points - #3: More About Feedback This series is a follow-on to my 3-part series Arctic Ice 2010.  It begins with part #1: Background And Recent History.  In Arctic Tipping…

PRADOPOLIS, Brazil, April 18, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- It makes no sense for countries to adopt ambitious policies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, while continuing to apply high tariffs on…

Analogies are a powerful way to explain complicated scientific concepts. I use them as much as I can whenever I describe particle physics in this blog or when I give a outreach talk in a school.…