Science matters

. . . locally. Before we bought the farm in 1996, we'd been on a couple of site visits to see what it really looked like, because the au...

The family were round the kitchen table for a few days in the middle of August. With 3 generations we seat eight. Everyone has their particu...

The Blob was born when  I started a new job in The "Not-a-University" Institute. It wasn't in the original programme of works,...

I rarely browse in the library because I think that I want to read non-fiction, especially science; but the overwhelming majority of library...

One of the cognitive dissonances of moving to Ireland as a young adult with a vocabulary formed growing up in England was the existence of l...

 I don't think I killed my mother. But . . . When I was 10, 11, 12, at the end of March each year we'd ask our mother what she wante...

Been reading, me. Weighty tomes - one metaphorically heavy; the other 480pp 0.35kg = Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean ...