The first few pages of The Code Book are on-line at Amazon.co.uk.
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About Me
I am an author, journalist and TV producer, specialising in science and mathematics, the only two subjects I have the faintest clue about. My latest book is Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial, which I have co-authored with Edzard Ernst, the world’s first professor of complementary medicine
Simon on Twitter
- RT @greyworld: Speakers announced to the Lost Stage, 21 March @Inkyfool @SLSingh @greyworld http://t.co/f3FCmSYX via @thelostlectures
- FT 21/2 said Greek economy will run with help of ad hoc adjustments & dubbed it the Ptolemaic model of the Greek economy HT @totalastronomy
- RT @Blue_Wode: .@bcapresident How many chiropractors who have behaved unethically have you & your colleagues *reported* to be disciplined?
- RT @lecanardnoir: Yes, the British Chiropractic Association are happily promoting bogus kitchen tips.
- RT @lecanardnoir: The British Chiropractic Association on the horrors of pancake day. http://t.co/VTAle742
New Scientist News
- Speedy neutrino result may be due to instrument glitch February 22, 2012News reports suggest that the jaw-dropping result may not be due to exotic physics but to instrumental effects – an official update is expected tomorrow […]
- World's deepest land animal discovered February 22, 2012The deepest-dwelling land animal in the world has been found almost 2 kilometres underground […]
- 'Fountain of youth' enzyme lengthens mouse life February 22, 2012Mice bred to have increased levels of sirtuin 6 – an enzyme found in humans – lived 15 per cent longer lives […]
- Men's Y chromosome is not about to go extinct February 22, 2012The human male Y chromosome will not mutate itself out of existence just 4.6 million years from now – confounding expectations […]
- Today on New Scientist: 22 February 2012 February 22, 2012All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: Europe will vote to keep Canadian tar sands out and rolling stones could mean Mars still rocks […]