Review of “Life Ascending”, Nick Lane, Eurotimes July 2009
This fine book on evolution was well reviewed at the time and won the 2010 Royal Society prize for science books. Here is my review from Eurotimes . Or rather…
Category: self promotion
“Mental health apps offer a head start on recovery” – Irish Times, 18/01/18
Originally posted on A Medical Education:
Here is a piece by Sylvia Thompson on a recent First Fortnight panel discussion I took part in on apps in mental health. Dr…
The Granddaughter Paradox published in Sci Phi Journal
My story The Granddaughter Paradox has been published in Sci Phi Journal, an online journal of science fiction with a philosophical twist (or philosophical fiction with a science fiction twist?) Reading the full…
Review of “Blockbuster”, Tom Shone, SAU Blog, February 2005
Here is the original. Tom Shone’s big idea seemed more radical in 2005 than it does now – indeed now it is pretty much mainstream. The triumph of what is still…
How book reviewing works – my first thoughts on Raymond Tallis’ “The Mystery of Being Human”
Recently my review of Raymond Tallis’ “The Mystery of Being Human” appeared in the TLS. This review had a somewhat convoluted gestation. Put simply, I didn’t like the book much.…
Computer games on paper: MiG-25, Colosseum, Mental Mills
Around 1986 my family bought an Amstrad PCW 8256 in Derry. I suppose at this distance it is OK to recall it was hidden under a blanket in the back seat…
Interview with Bret Easton Ellis, Feb 25th 1999, University Observer.
This was I suppose the high water mark of my student journalism career. How it happened was this. Ken Early, now of Second Captains and the Irish Times, was editing…
Fiction updates
A while ago (during November, to be exact) I blogged that I was using NaNoWriMo as a framework for trying to finish a story I was writing. I wrote that I…
