Dear Readers, I’ve been silent for quite a while, and I’m sorry about that. My life for the last ten months has been difficult for reasons quite apart from t...

Yesterday, responding to a prompt from SciFinow, I waxed lyrical about my love for Terry Gilliam's astonishing 1985 film Brazil. I came close to saying that ...

I’m a proud feminist, and have proclaimed as much for many years. But embracing the term is the easy part. Slightly harder is deciding what you mean. For mys...