THE SKINNER

So, Cameron is a nannying statist who wants to stick a minimum price on alcohol per unit. What on Earth is he thinking? Does he think tha...

Well, checking my journal I see that I began writing Penny Royal II on the 19 th of July and finished it to first draft on 27 th Novem...

New vaccine may give lifelong protection from flu - health - 25 November 2012 - New Scientist .... Trial RNA vaccines have failed, howev...

About three years ago I realized that my eyes were no longer perfect and that when the light was bad I needed reading glasses. I started ...

In my books I often do surgical scenes in which cell welders and bone welders are used. It seems to me that I can now properly describe an...

He had a good crack at it...

2788. Only the handicapped live on Earth. While everyone else portals between worlds, 18-year-old Jarra is among the one in a thousand ...

Sometimes I wish my mind had an off switch and other times I’m grateful that it doesn’t. The first case applies when I’m worrying about s...

Yeah, that about covers it.

Sent on Twitter by Geoff Utley from Compass Books in San Francisco Airport. Chris - presumably the guy in the photo - loves my work. ...

I’ve been reading a lot of science articles in the mornings as anyone who follows me on Twitter @nealasher or Facebook will be aware, but...

Most of you reading this have heard of Moore’s Law and most of you are familiar with the idea of the technological singularity and that...

Posted on my Facebook page by Keith McDade. So, if you're a long-time reader of my books, what word are you seeing here? More in comme...

I’ve just passed the 130,000 word mark on Penny Royal II but this last week I haven’t been hitting my target of 2,000 words a day. Genera...

I guess the fact that they were put through the mangle over cutting that program about Jimmy Saville led program makers to feel they had ...

While in the process of writing a book I occasionally reach a point where, having just written a large block of text, I decide, on reflec...

While we were in Crete I got an email from Jude Feldman who is the general manager at Borderland Books in San Francisco. A customer was t...

Yesterday wasn’t a very good day. I managed to leave our freezer open all night and now it has apparently packed up, I dropped hot cigare...

Interesting article and video clip over at Singularity Hub ... Reid expects single cell sequencing to be commercially available within tw...

Bloody hell!