As part of the Tell Them Science is Vital campaign, I e-mailed my MP, Lynne Featherstone, and local candidates too. Here’s what I said.
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How shocking was Brazil’s 7–1 defeat, mathematically speaking?
Trying to mathematically make sense of Brazil’s thrashing is a cautionary tale for mathematically inclined investors.
Experimental music in the superconductor lab
My greatest science claim to fame: I once played a piece of apparatus instrumental in a groundbreaking superconductivity discovery as a theremin.
A wide-roaming train of thought
How cheaper calls from abroad illustrate two important economic principles
£50bn question: do we want faster trains or limitless clean energy?
For the Guardian science blog, I asked: for £50bn, would we rather have HS2, or nuclear fusion?
Presidential polls, pointless pundits and potent probability
Numerical models should spell the end of innumerate punditry…and elections?
Shropshire paraselene
Shropshire paraselene, shortlisted in the Royal Greenwich Observatory Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2012.
FameLab
Andrew Steele, 2012 UK FameLab champion.
Red Moon rising over Oxford
Red Moon rising over Oxford, highly commended in the Royal Greenwich Observatory Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2011.
A sense of scale
The Earth–Moon system, drawn to scale, really gives you a sense of how insane the Universe is.