The time is rapidly coming up to fast approaching the publication of The Wonder of Life on Earth, written by me, illustrated ...

From interviews that were published last week by the Financial Times and The Guardian, I get the sense that the new President ...

I only noticed this afterwards but the lack of any direct engagement with the viewer makes you the unseen observer of quiet ...

Last December a new Government taskforce was launched to address issues about Women in Tech. Led by the Secretary of State at DSIT, Liz Kendall, with Anne-Marie Imafidon alongside, the aim is to ...

Update (17:00 03 Mar): all members of the UK or international scientific community were invited to indicate their support by signing the letter. The opportunity to do so closed at 17:00 UK time on 03 ...

In 2025, as the century closed its first quarter (where has the time gone?) I read (and listened to) 70-ish books, though the precise number rather depends on how one counts things. Mick Herron’s nine ...

Just before Christmas I was asked to talk to our molecular biologists about multivariate analyses. I was reminded of this on Thursday afternoon, when I saw that I had to talk to them on Friday. “Ah, ...

This year I have read a number of books equivalent to the Answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything, which is fewer than last year (62) or the year before (54). I was going to offer ...

The anticipation of Christmas under commercial pressure has also made it harder to sustain the appropriate sense of alert watchfulness. We as a staff team at St Mary’s Hornsey Rise try to sustain our ...

It takes about eight weeks of weekly lessons to learn how to handle a bell safely, and a lifetime to master the craft. Once a learner is safe to ring independently, and able to control the bell well ...

Last month I attended the IAML UK & Ireland Annual Study Weekend (ASW). IAML is the International Association of Music Libraries, and this is an event run each year by the UK & Ireland branch. This ...

About Richard Wintle I am Canadian by heritage, and a molecular biologist and human geneticist by training. My day job is Assistant Director of a large genome centre, where I do various things along ...