Stephen Hawking at the Royal Institution
January 8, 2016
Of stress balls and swimming with Stephen Hawking I once went swimming with Stephen Hawking. Well, maybe that is a bit of an exaggeration. It was 1983, five years before the publication of A Brief History of Time, which catapulted Hawking to internatio …
Talking time travel on BBC Radio 4
October 20, 2015
Time travel in science and cinema – with me, Adam Rutherford & Francine Stock Cells to Celluloid “The most shocking thing about time travel is that, after 100 years of trying, physicists have utterly failed to rule it out. In fact, Einstein’s theory of …
Article of mine going in Tate archive!
October 1, 2015
Blimey, an article I wrote in The Independent about an ancient star is going in the Tate archive because it was annotated by British-Romanian artist Paul Neagu. Here is the article. You never know who reads your articles. So I am tickled about this! …
Labour values, the NHS and me
August 25, 2015
It is 5 days since I received an e-mail from the Labour Party telling me it had reason to believe I did not support its aims and beliefs and it was excluding me from voting in the leadership election. Here is my response.
Sunday Brunch, C4, 2 August 2015
July 29, 2015
Chatted to Tim and Simon about Pluto and other “dusty, icy things” in the Solar System! Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch is always fun to do. Always seems to be a good atmosphere. Both the people behind the scenes who do the programme and the guests are great …