Nein. A Manifesto

Texts for Nothing.

How Time Flies

Hide and Seek with T.S. Eliot

Featured far too prominently in my new book, Fire Beyond the Darkness.

Here We Go Again

This time in New Zealand.

Stellarator

One step closer to physics’ Holy Grail.

Violence, Victors and Victims

 How to look at the art of the British empire.

I Feel Therefore I Am

How exactly did consciousness become a problem? 

Hope and the Historian

Writers  committing themselves to the ahistorical and the mythical.

When Nothing Is Cool

We have to face it down ourselves.

The Birth And Death Of Privacy

3,000 Years of History Told Through 46 Images.

Service Interruption

Robyn and I will be visiting family in New Zealand until early March. I will continue to post infrequently, immune from any pressure to provide more. If your nostalgia becomes overpowering, read this.

Aldous Huxley versus the Mesomorphs

Constitutional psychology had always spoken to his deepest fears and regrets. 

Neural Network Describes Video Footage in Real Time

New software  interprets images with near-human accuracy.

Identity Is an Inside Joke

Why you laugh with your friends.

The Neurofix

Stem cell therapies for the scourges of old age- in time for the Baby Boomers.

100 Notable Books of 2015

The year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review.

How the American Left Fell in and out of Love with Fidel Castro

The New York Intellectuals and the Cuban Revolution.

A Hemingway Surprise

As time goes by, he is not getting smaller.

Choose to Be Grateful

It Will Make You Happier.

The Big Bang

But what happened before?

Is Farmed Salmon Really Salmon?

The salmon from Yellow Island Aquaculture are.

The Fragile French Republic

Beset by an anxiety that the entire system could collapse. 

‘Self and Soul’

A biting critique of modern complacency.

‘You Stink,’ He Explained

The unending deliciousness of literary rivalries.

A Beauty Pageant for Holocaust Survivors

Thirteen women compete in the third annual beauty contest for survivors of the Nazi effort to exterminate European Jews.

Ripped from the Pages of Classic Sci-fi

Epigenetic Signaling Induces Species-Specific Head and Brain Growth in Flatworms.

Ending ISIS Combat Mission Trudeau’s First Big Blunder

They blow up so soon.

User Behaviour Websites and Apps are Designed for Addiction.

Should the net be regulated?

Blue Origin Milestone.

Rocket Lands Safely After Trip to Space.

Travel Abroad Is Safe, Provided You Teleport Into Rural New Zealand

We're covered.

The Jump from Big House to Small Press

The satisfaction of going Indie.

What It Takes to Be a Master Sommelier

Masters is a mind game.

Why Primo Levi Survives

The Holocaust inspired the writing he will be remembered for.

Magical Thinking about Isis

The caliphate holds up a mirror to the world we have made.

The Anxiety of the First-time Novelist

How a book is like a baby (and how it isn't).

The New Faces of Venezuela’s Opposition

Time to get rid of the poison.

The 5 Exoplanets Astronauts Might Be Able to Terraform

Could life exist on these worlds? Could humans manage to survive on them?

Tardigrades are Sponges for Foreign Genes

Inside the Bizarre Genome of the World’s Toughest Animal.

The Dialectic of Love and Authority

 On the family.

Hemingway's 'A Moveable Feast' has become a Bestseller in France

Following the deadly attacks in Paris, the author’s memoir about life in the city has sold out of bookstores.

A Week from Now

We'll be home.

Hillary’s Hypocrisy

Heaven help us.

Pablo Neruda’s Love Nest in Santiago

Like his poetry, it’s filled with passion.

Dig in Anytime

Unusual Honesty from the BBC

Beautiful And Rare "Blue Dragon" Washes Ashore In Australia

Glaucus atlanticus. 

Battling the Gods

Atheism in the Ancient World.

The Week in Nothing to do with Islam

Steyn knows.

Quantum Mechanics Is Putting Human Identity on Trial

If our particles have no identity, how can we?

Landlocked Islanders

The Marshallese as in Stories of the Southern Sea.

Enough with Scandinavia Chic

What’s so great about IKEA anyway?