So here, as ever, are my ten best reads of 2025, in no particular order as the say on the game shows, with my top pick at the ...

Mick Herron Down Cemetery Road Enthused as I was by this author’s Slough House sequence of novels (reviewed last month) I turned to one of his novels featuring sleuth Zoë Boehm. In this story, bored ...

My annual round-up of the books I read in 2025 was pre-empted by a request from Research Professional News (RPN) to write 250 ...

Collections from previous years are available for 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.

Well, not really night anymore, as I first opened this page at 4 AM. Out the window brittle stars burn, though the faintest ...

After Morning Prayer, our other task begins. The day gives way to school visits requiring us to retell the Nativity story. We ...

Working in a church as Christmas approaches means doing two jobs at once. The anticipation of Christmas under commercial pressure has also made it harder to sustain the appropriate sense of alert ...

Pants of Cromer’, Mr Ginsberg died in the early hours of New Year’s Day. He was 17. Discovered as a stray in the garden at ...

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, ...

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 ...

About Henry Gee Henry Gee is an author, editor and recovering palaeontologist, who lives in Cromer, Norfolk, England, with his family and numerous pets, inasmuch as which the contents of this blog and ...

Dear Materials Science and Engineering Students, I congratulate you whole-heartedly on your choice of Materials Science and Engineering for your undergraduate studies. You are all a whole lot smarter ...