Or how I learned to stop worrying and love science
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Richard Dawkins interview

It’s not every day you get to meet Richard Dawkins. In August, I visited the great man at his Oxford home to interview him for BBC Focus magazine. Topics of conversation included his 40-year run of books (beginning with The Selfish Gene in 1976), the evidence for evolution, the possibilities of extraterrestrial life, and the public reaction to The God...

Thu Sep 24, 2015 20:33
Pablo’s First Christmas

Here’s a competition I couldn’t resist. Children’s writer Susanna Leonard Hill has launched her fourth Annual Holiday Contest – a December tradition that has hitherto passed me by. The task this year: write a children’s story of 350 words or less in which wild weather impacts the holidays. Here’s my effort:   Pablo’s First Christmas by James Lloyd (349...

Fri May 8, 2015 22:01
Sam at the Window

I recently finished a children’s story called Sam at the Window. Most of it was written a year or so ago, but I’ve just had it illustrated by a wonderful artist called Stefania Manzi. The story’s about an old fisherman who spends his days watching the world go by from his window, until his routine is disrupted by the appearance of a pint-sized Viking...

Fri May 8, 2015 22:01
Newton’s Apple: Fact or Fiction?

We all know the story. A young Isaac Newton is sitting in his garden when – plonk! – an apple falls onto his head. As the scientist rubs his sore scalp, an idea enters his mind – could the same force that brought the apple plummeting to the ground also explain the motions of the Moon and the planets? In that instant the theory of gravity is born! At...

Fri May 8, 2015 22:01
Recent writings…

Some of the recent writing shenanigans that I’ve been getting up to… I’ve written an article for the ever-brilliant (and now Wellcome Trust-funded) Guru magazine about the science of dancing. Guru is well worth a look if you haven’t checked it out yet… plenty of thought-provoking articles to get your teeth into (and it’s free to download as well). The...

Fri May 8, 2015 22:01
Yappy New Hear!

A very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to one and all! And so ends another year. WordPress tells me I’ve written 21 blog posts in 2012… not exactly a mind-blowing number maybe, but one I’m pretty happy with given that 2012’s been a year of new jobs, house moves, and stockpiling for the impending apocalypse (!). Anyway, here are my blog posts that...

Fri May 8, 2015 22:01

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