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Thoughts on a podcast about How Life Works

Genes, in more context: a reply to a review of How Life Works

How our cells cope with oxygen stress: a paradigm of life's fuzzy, distributed control

The new Climategate that wasn't

Should we colonise space? How not to debate that question.

The Spectator's review of The Book of Minds: a response

What do we mean when we say that science is political?

The long shadow of Covid: a reply to Sunetra Gupta

More on the "politicization of science"

The problematic themes of Modern Myths

What we have seen: a year of lockdown

Free will and physics: the next instalment

More on free will, and why quantum mechanics can't help you understand football

Does quantum mechanics rescue free will?

Is the UK ready for a Covid winter?

Music in lockdown

Three colours: Yellow

Three colours: Blue

Three colours: Red

How you hear the words of songs

Was Dracula gay?

Rise of the vacuum airship

The City is the City

Just how conceptually economical is the Many Worlds Interpretation?

Physics and Imagination